On the broad issue of suicide bombers, a friend in Japan sent me his link, which I found quite fascinating. It concerns the kamikaze pilots of WW2, and current and past perceptions of them at the time and subsequently. A kamikaze pilot is of course not the same thing as a jihadi terrorist. To say the least of it: (a) The one is a state employee, the other a freelancer, (b) Kamikaze pilots seem not to have been motivated by any notion of an afterlife. The site is interesting none the less.