Islamic fundamentalism

[Thorne]

So you could say they value life so much, that they give up precious life for the ultimate reward.

I think rather that they value life so little, especially their own, that they are willing to commit ANY atrocity just for the POSSIBILITY of rewards in the afterlife. Yet the vast majority of religions (including Islam, I believe) preach that the rewards in the afterlife are spiritual rather than physical. Without the physical body there is no need for material rewards, including some indeterminate number of "virgins."

And when you think about it, what kind of "reward" would that be for the virgins? Here they've gone and kept themselves pure, only to have to give themselves to some asshole who hated himself enough to kill himself? Some paradise!