Quote Originally Posted by Fragony View Post
How can you have this discussion without the Islam? It's impossible to deny the numbers he brings up, but there are different types of terrorism, he only looks into suicide attacks. To say that there is no religious motivation when looking at terrorism as a whole is being delusional.
Epic reading/listening comprehension fail.

Allow me to isolate a relevant sentence, to minimize the chance of you misinterpreting it:

Before 2003, the largest perpetrator of suicide terrorism was the Tamil Tigers, a Marxist group. It's also used by the PKK, a Kurdish/Marxist terror outfit. Suicide terrorism is popular, Pape argues, because it is lethally effective.

This doesn't mean that terrorists don't despise Western values or don't, in their minds, hope to restore Islamic rule, it just means that those things don't matter nearly as much as is presumed and don't figure centrally into the history of suicide violence.