Foreign Occupation causing terrorism

University of Chicago Professor Robert Pape, the author of a groundbreaking new book showing that foreign occupation -- not religion -- motivates suicide terror attacks, will speak at CAIR's 16th annual banquet on Saturday, October 9 in Arlington, Va.

In his just-released book, Cutting the Fuse: The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It, Professor Pape joins with James K. Feldman in examining every suicide terror attack worldwide from 1980 to 2009.

According to the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism:

"Through a close analysis of suicide campaigns by Al Qaeda and in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Lebanon, Israel, Chechnya, and Sri Lanka, the authors provide powerful new evidence that, contrary to popular and dangerously mistaken belief, religion alone motivates only a tiny minority of these attacks. Instead, the root cause is foreign military occupation, which triggers secular and religious people to carry out suicide attacks."


Lee H. Hamilton, co-chair of the 9/11 Commission, said of the book:

"Pape and Feldman offer a powerful analysis of the factors underlying the rise in suicide terrorism in recent years and bring clarity to a complex and challenging subject. I commend this book to both scholars and policy makers with a serious interest in U.S. national security policy."


(Source: CAIR)