Jonathan Sacerdoti

I mean, I don't even understand what that is, but at least we're trying to teach them

A sense of fair play, a British sense of fair play.

So upset was he by his lot that he was such a failure that he then wrote a note to his mum, photographed it next to his knives.

It was in Arabic and it was full of references to the Koran and other Islamic ideas about redemption and becoming a martyr.

and carrying out terror attack to redeem himself from this position of complete failure and loserdom.

And so he set out with a red cloth wrapped around his head, like Abu Ubaidah, the Hamas spokesman, and walked from Kilburn to Kensington, armed, reciting prayers as he went on his mission to go and carry out a terror attack in the Israeli embassy, gets there.

incidentally, not a single person on the way seems to have thought it was at all strange to see such a thing walking through London.

That should tell you something about the state of London these days.

Tries to scale the fence after saluting the armed police officers outside it.

And of course, they pulled him down, threw him to the ground, arrested him, and he asked them why they were stopping him carrying out his crime.

This is the guy who epitomized, in my opinion, this notion of jihad, which appeals to everyone.

losers in this context.

And a friend of mine who I interviewed in my podcast, Dr. Anat Berko, is an Israeli criminologist who has actually written fascinating books on the psychology of suicide bombers and those surrounding them.

She has carried out unique research going into jails in Israel where she spent hours

individually interviewing failed suicide bombers, dispatchers and others involved in the terror attacks about their lives.

And one of the uniting factors for all of them, one of the common features of all of them is some form of failure or loserdom.

So you'll find that often these ideas of jihad, of martyrdom, of carrying out terror attacks and atrocities on others for a higher religious belief can often be motivated by someone who's failed in other ways in their lives.

So with women who were involved in these terror attacks,

They might have been raped, which in their culture brings shame upon them for having been raped.

They may have engaged in premarital or extramarital sex, which again will, in their culture, bring dishonour upon them and their family.