Defending Against People Who Want To Die

From the Gartman Letter:

We came across an interview with two very young Palestinian girls
done in 2002 regarding their view of life and their wish to
become "Shahada,"... the Arabic term for martyrs. The
interview took place on Palestinian television, and when
asked by the television shows host whether it was better to
have peace in the region and to have full rights for the
Palestinian people, or to become a martyr, one of the young
girls said without hesitation, "Shahada. I will achieve my
rights after becoming a Shahida." The second girl then
added, even more ominously and far more disconcertingly,

Of course Shahada is a good thing. We don't
want this world; we want the Afterlife. We
benefit not from this life, but from the
Afterlife... The children of Palestine have
accepted the concept that this is Shahada, and
that death by Shahada is very good. Every
Palestinian child aged, say twelve, says 'Oh Lord,
I would like to become a Shahid.'"

How can we in the West deal with this sort of shocking
psychology? How can we expect to forge a peace with
people... young women... who prefer death to life... who
embrace the concept of suicide/martyrdom and who are
enthralled with the idea of killing dozens, or hundreds, of
others whom they view as "kaffirs" and see nothing wrong
with killing them while taking themselves to the Afterlife?
This is the question of the age, and we see no answer. All
we see in this comment is the gulf that exists between Islam
and The West... a gulf that grows larger and more confusing
by the day.

Indeed.