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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
So?
eta: Which is to say, I agree with the general proposition that suicide bombers are motivated by things other than religion. But if I were claiming that suicide bombings were the measure of a religion's propensity to violence, I would then have to deal with the fact that the Tamil Tigers lately have been (at least one of) the foremost practitioners of such mayhem.
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Hindus can be violent. They killed Ghandi, the Airline Pilot Prime minister, they razed that Mosque, and have killed quite a few Muslims in riots. That is why the conflict in the Sub continent is so nasty because both Islam and Hinduism can be very violent religions. Where as you don't see many Buddhist suicide bombers. They may kill themselves, but not other people.
However, since most of the Hindus live in Hindustan (India) they tend not to mess with other countrys that much. The exception being Ceylon. Bali is Hindu, and even though it is part of Indonesia, since they are all concentrated on that one Island, there isn't that much conflict. I don't believe there are a lot of Hindus on the other islands of Indonesia, or in South East Asia, but as usual, I really don't know what I am talking about.
