Simple Lust Provokes Mass Murder?

He's a medical doctor who trained as a terrorist under al-Zawahiri, but now Tawfik Hamid is  in hiding. 

Sexual frustration, he says, is the dynamic behind suicide bombings who are overwhelming Sunni Muslims.    Sunnis don't have the release valve of "temporary marriage" that can last as little as one hour that Shia Muslims do.    Hot for Martyrdom

Don't for a moment underestimate this blinding passion or its influence on those who accept fundamentalism."

A pause. "I know. I was one who accepted it."

It's not about poverty.

"I've heard this poverty nonsense time and time again from Western apologists for Islam, most of them not Muslim by the way. There are millions of passive supporters of terror who may be poor and needy but most of those who do the killing are wealthy, privileged, educated and free. If it were about poverty, ask yourself why it is middle-class Muslims -- and never poor Christians -- who become suicide bombers in Palestine."

He has more to say on fundamentalist Muslim imperialism

"Yes, 'imperialism,' " he tells me. "The deliberate and determined expansion of militant Islam and its attempt to triumph not only in the Islamic world but in Europe and North America. Pure ideology. Muslim terrorists kill and slaughter not because of what they experience but because of what they believe."
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He's exasperated now, visibly angry at what he sees as a willful Western foolishness. "Stop asking what you have done wrong. Stop it! They're slaughtering you like sheep and you still look within. You criticize your history, your institutions, your churches. Why can't you realize that it has nothing to do with what you have done but with what they want.

Read the whole interview by Michael Coren of the National Post.