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The article responds to a research paper that examined the motivation behind the actions of suicide terrorists. The author explores how the quest for personal significance, used in the paper as a unifying concept that explains the motivation of suicide terrorists, is exploited by terrorist organizations in order to fulfill this motivation. The author examines how martyrdom fits into Islamic tradition, scripture and literature as well as how it has been used by non-Muslim groups. The author also discusses how the concept of jihad has developed and how martyrdom now falls within what Islamic theologians considered effective means of conducting jihad.

The article responds to a research paper that examined the motivation behind the actions of suicide terrorists. The author discusses the weakness related to conducting a mainstream psychological examination of terrorism. The two fundamental problems are; firstly, the lack of powerful conceptual frameworks to drive the research and secondly, the tendency for researchers to break into competing camps based on differing opinions shaped by individual differences and contextual factors. The author explores how cultural contextual factors exist in varying degrees of influence across Islamic communities and how the macro global and evolutionary context impact Islamic terrorism.

The article responds to a research paper that examined the motivation behind the actions of suicide terrorists. The author discusses some of the problems that have been associated with previous psychological studies that have examined terrorism and the terrorists that carry out these acts. The author believes that this paper has committed several errors in terms of the case they present and how it has been constructed. The author explores the evidence that is presented and questions how effectively it supports the argument set forth. The paper also discusses the contextual nature of psychological studies of motivation.