Cultural glorification of martyrdom turns suicide terrorism into socially applauded retribution.

Evidence

In cultural milieus that hail suicide bombers as gaining blessed martyrdom, this mode of terrorism is institutionally embraced and socially applauded as divine retribution for the humiliation and suffering inflicted by the enemy (Lelyveld, 2001). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2502

Categorization

• QUESTION: What exactly flips a milieu from tolerating to glorifying martyrdom? Would be worth chasing the Lelyveld (2001) source for the specific cultural mechanisms.
• XREF: connects to: Martyr deaths converted liberal Maidan participants to adopt far-right tactical repertoires — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 507