“We are not afraid of death,” the suicide bombers say to show their superiority to ordinary people. But they are afraid of life, constantly trampling on it, slandering it, destroying it, and training children still in their cradles for martyrdom.

— Pascal Bruckner The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism (2010)

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