Inside the mind of a suicide bomber

Just to get serious for a minute or two...

As we approach the second anniversary of the London bombings, and just a day after the latest attempts to blow up innocent people, I found this article which gives a little insight into some of the reasons why the 7/7 ringleader may have followed the path that he did. The article is long but worth it; I know little about Islam, but have read a bit about the differences between being a "Muslim" and an "Islamist". I suppose the headline from this article is the difficulties experienced by second generation immigrants, in this case the pressures to marry within one's own community. But to concentrate solely upon that might trivialise some of the other issues - for example, it has become clear that Thursday night's attempted car bombing in Haymarket was targeting the "Ladies' night" at Tiger Tiger nightclub, which presumably was full of decadent young women in the modern fashions (i.e. not a huge amount of clothing) getting drunk and having a "good time".

Whatever one might think of the behaviour of young hedonists in the western world, killing and maiming people cannot be the answer, surely?
Just as a footnote to this, I must join the chorus of praise to those who have helped to prevent loss of life and limb - the London Ambulance staff who spotted the smoke and vapours within that Mercedes on Thursday night, and those who helped the police apprehend the would-be suicide bomber in Glasgow - particularly the civilian who just decked the guy in the face so that the police could restrain him. It takes a braver man than I...