But I can't quite put my finger on why. Oh yeah:

From MEMRI's dispatch, Al-Arabiya TV Special on the Culture of Martyrdom and Suicide Bombers

The above is from a film of a Hizballah (a group DePaul professor Norman Finkelstein considers "heroic") parade in Lebanon for the celebration of "Martyr's Day."

Here are a couple of children who's dad volunteered to blow himself up. They are watching the video Hizballah was thoughtful enough to make, broadcast and provide a copy to the family:

Remember, that little girl is in the den of their house, sitting with the family, watching video of dad blow himself up with a bunch of other people. If that doesn't chill your bones, I don't know what will. That's some good mothering right there.

Hey, and here's moderate Muslim leader and friend of London Mayor Ken Livingstone (and early supporter of the Boston Mosque) explaining how it's OK to kill yourself among Israeli civilians -- because, of course, there are no Israeli civilians, and it's not really suicide:

Finally, here's Hamas, who I'm given to believe represent a fairly high percentage of public opinion amongst the Palestinian Arabs. But don't worry, I hear they run schools. Of course, I'm not exactly sure what it is they teach, since this image is from one of their in-house training videos:

There's much more in the MEMRI report.