name another religion that has women & children strapping explosives to themselves.....
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Israel's First ever Suicide Bomber was a Jewish Young Lady! Final death toll is 12, with 11 injured. The Female Jewish terrorist has been identified as
Sima Fleishhaker-Hoizman
Source: The Daily New, Perth, Western Australia
31 October 1946
Before that followers of the Shinto religion justified suicide in-order to kill ones enemy. You might better know these suicide bombers as kamikazes.
Western culture military units are sent out on suicide missions with little hope of coming back alive and their objective was usually to take out or bomb an installation.
Aum Shinrikyo a religious cult used members to carry out sarin gas attacks in crowded civilian areas which killed the carrier as well as several other people. While not an explosive device the goal was to kill as many as possible.
Not so sure there is a moral high ground for the proxy bombs the IRA used. Provisional IRA campaign 1969-1997, the IRA used the tactic it called the the "proxy bomb" -a sort of involuntary suicide bomb, where a victim was kidnapped and forced to drive a car bomb into its target. In one infamous operation in Derry in 1990, the PIRA chained a Catholic civilian to a car laden with explosives, held his family hostage and forced him to drive to a British Army checkpoint as a "human bomb" where the bomb exploded, killing himself and five soldiers. This practice was stopped due to the revulsion its caused among the Irish nationalist community.
Also in the line of proxy bombing it was alleged that Nazis strapped bombs to little kids and sent them into enemy camps or headquarters. Also during the war spies would have a tooth drilled out and a small cyanide tablet inserted so that they could kill themselves if it looked as though they would be captured.
It is not just children in women who done this sort of suicide mission. Actually until very recently it was mostly men who would become suicide bombers. But it is more or less the tactic of the underdog. The combatant that doesn't have a highly financed military. Most of the historic examples of suicide bombing reflect this fact. It is all part of blow back and falls within the realm of guerilla warfare.