POOR LITTLE PAWNS...

...who think they're fighting for a credo
...who think they're freedom fighters
...who think they'll meet Allah after bombing themselves.

They remind me of other fighters, in other ages:
... early christiandom martyrs
... pastoureaux
... many others who thought they were dying for their god
and more recently
...sects of various kinds such as the Order of the Solar Temple.
There's a movie (not a masterpiece but interesting in many ways) coming from Scandinavia
    under the title of  Solstorm showing how people can take advantage of others in their Community.
As Ecclesiastes quotes: There's nothing new under the Sun.
Money rules.
Power rules.
History shows that some people take advantage of it.
History also shows that leaders' children almost never go bomb themselves.
Leaders just send lesser people's children to death (that's how they consider them: expendable!)

and they are so careful to hide their shameless (that should be shameful) faces