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Triumph of the Irrational

Incentivizing the Irrational - The Promise of Manhood and That of a Prince Charming

The Prophet’s example set fifteen as the age boys could join the men in killing unbelievers.

Narrated Ibn Umar:

That the Prophet inspected him on the day of Uhud while he was fourteen years old, and the Prophet did not allow him to take part in the battle.

He was inspected again by the Prophet on the day of Al-Khandaq (i.e. battle of the Trench) while he was fifteen years old, and the Prophet allowed him to take part in the battle.

Bukhari 59.423

That age limit came to a definitive end with the invention of the modern suicide vest. Its use requires the user to infiltrate a gathering of unbelievers without arousing suspicion, and who can best to that than a child.

Anything goes when it comes to killing unbelievers and it wasn’t long before the likes of Boko Haram and the Islamic State started using children to do God’s dirty work. Not to be overlooked, children, as discussed in the previous chapter, are easily duped by trusted adults into believing in the irrational and its absurd promises. For Boko Haram, girls have proven particular attractive as suicide bombers since you get to rape them before sending them off to commit a mass murder in Allah’s Cause.

In the last seven years, 14 per cent of all suicide bombings – one in seven – have been by children. Boko Haram has used more female suicide bombers than any other militant group.

The price of paradise: 82 facts you didn’t know about suicide bombers. The Irish Times (2019, April 18)

How do you get little boys and girls to blow themselves up for Allah? Uzza was asked that question. Excerpt from Remembering Uzza - If Islam Was Explained To Me in a Pub, Boreal Books.

Bob: How do you get little boys to blow themselves up anyway?

Uzza: All who enter Paradise will be instantaneously transformed into thirty or thirty-three-year-olds. You play on every little boy’s fantasy of being all grown up. You tell them that, literally, in a puff of smoke, they can become a man if they are willing to help Allah get rid of the bad people.

Bob: You have to wonder why there are no old geezers blowing themselves up with a promise of eternal youth and sex galore.

Archie: They know better, and with every gullible guy blowing himself up, it leaves more young women and girls for them. They are no fools, just like the Prophet was no fool.

Bob: Young girls are also blowing themselves up. What’s in it for them?

Uzza: Not much. That is why the process of getting girls to do what young boys will do without much persuasion is slightly more complicated and brutal. Turning little girls into mass murderers is a challenge, but holy warriors have proven themselves up to the task with little girls increasingly outnumbering little boys as suicide bombers.

Gerry: How do they do it?

Uzza: The transformation usually begins with the rape of god-fearing girls by fighters in Allah's Cause. It is meant to make them feel a heart-breaking guilt for having brought dishonour on their family, a shame so intense that death seems preferable.

Gerry: But why do they not just kill themselves and not harm anyone else?

Archie: Or wait for their father to kill them?

Gerry: Archie, this is serious.

Archie: I am being serious.

Uzza: Rape makes a shambles of a young girl's fantasy of marrying her Prince Charming. What nice young man would have her as his beloved bride now that she is no longer a virgin? Only Allah, she is told, can now make her dream come true. Not in the here-and-now, but in the Hereafter, if she has the courage to kill herself and take as many of His enemies as possible with her.

On December 16, 2014, six Taliban entered a school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar and slaughtered 141 people, including 132 children between eight and eighteen years of age. How a Taliban supporter justified the killing of children, which could apply to using them as suicide martyrs.

Human life only has value among you worldly materialistic thinkers. For us, this human life is only a tiny, meaningless fragment of our existence. Our real destination is the Hereafter. We don’t just believe it exists, we know it does. Death is not the end of life. It is the beginning of existence in a world much more beautiful than this. As you know, the [Urdu] word for death is “intiqall.” It means transfer, not end.

Paradise is for those of pure hearts. All children have pure hearts. They have not sinned yet… They have not yet been corrupted by [their kafir parents]. We did not end their lives. We gave them new ones in Paradise, where they will be loved more than you can imagine. They will be rewarded for their martyrdom. After all, we also martyr ourselves with them. The last words they heard were the slogan of Takbeer [Allah U Akbar]. Allah Almighty says himself in Surhah Al-Imran [3:169-170] that they are not dead. You will never understand this. If your faith is pure, you will not mourn them, but celebrate their birth into Paradise.

Sam Harris, Islam and the Future of Tolerance, Harvard University Press, 2015, p. 86