Sex & Suicide Bombing & Religion

Very intersting and probably very controversial...

"The bleak prospect, created by polygyny, makes men very competitive and aggressive, because they must compete fiercely with each other not to be left out of the reproductive game altogether and to win mates. This is why men in every human society are more violent and aggressive than women. Further, the more polygynous the society, the more aggressive and violent the men become. This is why, among other things, your boyfriend is often insufferably rude to the waiter when you go out to dinner. He is trying to impress you in his misguided attempt to put down potential competitors and claim higher status than the waiter.

"Despite varied geography, cultures, languages, and ethnicities, one factor which unites all of our otherwise diverse current enemies, from al Qaeda in the Middle East, to Jemaah Islamiyah in South East Asia, to the Chechen rebels in Russia, to the Palenstianian suicide bombers in Israel, t the Sunni insurgents in Iraq, is Islam...while suicide missions are not always religiously motivated, when religion is involved, it is always Islam. Why is this? What distinguishes Islam from other major world religions is taht it sanctions polygyny, and, as we saw earlier, polygyny increases competitive pressure on men, especially young men of low status, who are most likely to be left without reproductive opportunities when older men of higher status marry polygynously.

"The other key ingredient is the Koran's promise of 72 virgins waiting in heaven for any martyr in Islam. This creates a strong motive for any young Muslim men who are excluded from reproductive opportunities to commit suicide bombings."

The Evolutionary Psychological Imagination: Why You Can't Get a Date on a Saturday Night and Why Most Suicide Bombers are Muslim
by Satoshi Kanazawa
http://www.jsecjournal.com/PDF/JSEC_Kanazawa_1-2.pdf