A Generation of Martyrs

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September 03, 2006

What do you call young people who strap on explosive vests and detonate them in a crowded marketplace? President Bush says they're fascist terrorists. The Western press labels them suicide bombers. But to a Muslim, particularly one who's sympathetic to their political ideology, these people are martyrs. In this hour, To the Best of Our Knowledge takes a look at suicide bombers — why there are so many in this generation, how their families feel, and what, if anything we can do about them.

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Robert Baer, CIA agent turned novelist is also a film-maker.  His documentary is called "The Cult of the Suicide Bomber" and it's scarier than anything Hollywood is producing.

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Novelist Louis de Bernieres tells Jim Fleming about the climate of religious toleration that marked the Ottoman Empire.

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Historian William Dalrymple tells Steve Paulson that the British weren't the masters of India when they first arrived. The Mughals were.

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Betool Khedairi grew up in Iraq with an Iraqi father and a Scottish mother.

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Nathaniel Philbrick tells Jim Fleming that the myth of the first Thanksgiving is great for children, but the truth about Plymouth Plantation is a lot darker and more complicated.

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September 03, 2006
July 29, 2007
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