1. Because people deserve a break, I want to talk a bit about how Jack Kirby predicted suicide bombing a terrorist technique.
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9. So a full decade before religion inspired suicide bombing became a visible mass phenomenon, Kirby portrayed it.
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10. Incidentally, Glorious Godfrey turns out to be a minion of Darkseid, a great metaphor for religion in the service of tyranny.pic.twitter.com/aybQCsAzsI
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11. Kirby's own life was strangely intertwined with history of terrorism. His close childhood friend was Leon Klinghoffer, killed by Palestine Liberation Front in 1985.
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12. In 1979, Kirby art was used by the CIA for their Argo project, a fake film used as cover to rescue hostages in Iran.http://comicsalliance.com/jack-kirby-cia/
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13. Future potential twitter-essays on Jack Kirby as a prophet: the Mother Box as proto-iphone, "the project" & Silicon Valley, Darkseid & Nixon.
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This is a really interesting thread, and I'm learning a lot, but are you sure that kamikaze pilots count as wholly secular in motivation? Surely state Shinto played a part?
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I would argue Kamikaze pilots were religiously motivated.
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http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/livingbombs.htm … Around the same period Steve Englehart had a group of suicide bombers in an Avengers issue who were mad about Vision and Scarlet Witch's Android/mutant love affair.
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How much of inspiration for 1980s suicide bombing in Lebanon was religious and how much resistance against foreign occupying army?
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Weren't kamikazes part of a literally emperor-worshipping religion? Or has the religious nature of that empire been exaggerated?
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