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Originally Posted by Preechr
He explained to me once the fine line in Islam between "acceptable" suicide bombing and that which is forbidden. He cited the version of the practice used against Pakistan's resistance to Indian occupation as the sole actual version throuhgout history that has ever been useful as a legitimate example. It's a compelling story. The new president of Pakistan, an old man, viewed the oncoming tanks and asked for anything that would explode. When asky why, he said the thing he wanted to do the most at that moment was to run under that vastly superior and absoutely counterable oncoming weaponry and die for his beliefs.
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See I think that martyrism is way too loose of an ideal to be associated with any type of suicide. And the reason I believe in my islamic perspective that suicide bombers are going to hell is because they use being a martyr as a type of free pass to suicide, just because you say you're dying in the name of a cause doesn't make it so. Believing that you're gonna get a ton of virgins in heaven is just trying to justify your sin. The sin is still being recorded whether you believe it's justified or not, it's not your desicion to make.
Also in all of the examples from the times of the Prophet Mohammad (pbuh) none of the martyrs went in with the intentions of dying. They fought and death was just a consequence of it.