Thursday, October 27, 2005

Another suicide bomber

Here's an idea. Instead of publishing the name of a suicide bomber why not omit that information from all news reports? Why is every suicide bomber 'honored' with macabre fame? Every suicide bomber has their name, age and nationality published, yet the victims are usually listed in a group - a number. If you celebrate life, then why do you accept the dead victims being lumped together as a number? Why do you accept mass murderer's becoming 'celebrities' amongst their own with their names annotated in history?

If you get into the psyche of these beings, it's obvious that part of their motivation has to do with 'going down in history'. Would there be as many suicide bombers if their names were never known? Some die hards would still perform this heinous crime, but I suspect many more would not since their deeds could never be authenticated in published reports. Without this authentication, who would believe these grotesque memorializations? Without believers, who would follow?

Let's reserve the publishing of names to the victims, not the evildoers. Let's stop glorifying these abominations and let them die anonymously and alone.