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According to the Oxford University sociologist Diego Gambetta, editor of Making Sense of Suicide

Missions, a comprehensive history of this troubling yet topical phenomenon, while suicide missions

are not always religiously motivated, when religion is involved, it is always Muslim. Why is this? Why is

Islam the only religion that motivates its followers to commit suicide missions?

The surprising answer from the evolutionary psychological perspective is that Muslim suicide

bombing may have nothing to do with Islam or the Koran (except for two lines in it). It may have nothing to

do with the religion, politics, the culture, the race, the ethnicity, the language, or the region. As with

everything else from this perspective, it may have a lot to do with sex, or, in this case, the absence of sex.

What distinguishes Islam from other major religions is that it tolerates polygamy . By allowing

some men to monopolize all women and altogether excluding many men from reproductive opportunities,

polygamy creates shortages of available women. If 50 percent of men have two wives each, then the other

50 percent don't get any wives at all.

So polygamy increases competitive pressure on men, especially young men of low status.

It therefore increases the likelihood that young men resort to violent means to gain access to mates.

By doing so, they have little to lose and much to gain compared with men who already have wives. Across all

societies, polygamy makes men violent, increasing crimes such as murder and rape, even after controlling for

such obvious factors as economic development, economic inequality, population density, the level of

democracy, and political factors in the region.

However, polygamy itself is not a sufficient cause of suicide bombing. Societies in sub-Saharan

Africa and the Caribbean are much more polygynous than the Muslim nations in the Middle East

and North Africa. And they do have very high levels of violence. Sub-Saharan Africa suffers from a

long history of continuous civil wars—but not suicide bombings.

The other key ingredient is the promise of 72 virgins waiting in heaven for any martyr in Islam.

The prospect of exclusive access to virgins may not be so appealing to anyone who has even

one mate on earth, which strict monogamy virtually guarantees. However, the prospect is quite

appealing to anyone who faces the bleak reality on earth of being a complete reproductive loser.

It is the combination of polygamy and the promise of a large harem of virgins in heaven that motivates many

young Muslim men to commit suicide bombings. Consistent with this explanation, all studies of suicide bombers indicate that they are significantly younger than not only the Muslim population in general but other (non suicidal) members of their own extreme political organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah. And nearly all suicide bombers are single.