The smarter bomb women and children as suicide bombers / Anat Berko; translated by Elizabeth Yuval.
| Author/creator | Berko, Anat |
| Other author | Yuval, Elizabeth. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | 1st ed. |
| Publication Info | Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, |
| Description | 1 online resource (xv, 196 p.) |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Foreword / by Daniel Pipes -- Preface -- Introduction: "good enough to die, not good enough to marry" -- "Just as long as the girl doesn't make a mistake" -- Hamas deputy prime minister : "Whoever sends a woman to commit suicide is gahel (ignorant)" -- The engineer : "A virgin in paradise is like a little girl" -- Shariah judge: "Women lack two things : intelligence and religion" -- The adolescent terrorist : "You go to jail, you can study for your matriculation exams, you get special considerations if you are in jail" -- Brother and sister, suicide bombers -- Special bonuses for each and every shaheed -- Terrorist to her dispatcher : "Why did you betray me? : you know i love you" -- Clerics on women in the terrorist industry : "What will she get in paradise, a couple of virgins?" -- Salima, mother of seven : "My husband only thinks about himself, I don't love him." -- Nawal, Palestinian knife-wielder : "Jail in Israel is better than the hell at home." -- Women under interrogation -- How to talk to terrorists -- Arab lawyer : "Every woman involved in terrorism is a romantic." -- Nabil, dispatcher of terrorists : "A pity i sent her to blow herself up, she could have given birth to three men like me." -- Afterword: disrobe for an attack : the shaheeda as heroine? -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- Bibliography. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-190) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: The smarter bomb Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012. 9781442219526 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021675262 |
| ISBN | 9781442278592 ebook |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |