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Islam is what motivates 99 percent of all terrorism in the world for like the last 20 years.

Ever heard of the Tamil Tigers?

I know, it sounds like a sports team. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or Tamil Tigers for short, or Tamil New Tigers when they were founded in 1972, were the most aggressive group of suicide bombers in the world up until the the Bush administration converted Iraq into a terrorist training camp. As of May 2000, the Tigers were responsible for five times as many suicide attacks as all other terrorist groups put together. They invented the suicide vest in 1991 — the Palestinians got the idea from the Tamil Tigers.

And they’re not Muslims. They’re revolutionary Marxists from a Hindu culture, seeking independence for the Tamil people of Sri Lanka from the Sinhala Buddhists.

American Conservative had an interview last year with Robert Pape, of the University of Chicago, who’s assembled a database of every known suicide attack since 1980, and published a book about the phenomenon called Dying to Win. His conclusion is that “overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear strategic objective: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland.” He does think religion is involved, in that suicide-terrorism is more likely when the occupiers and occupied are of different religions.