ABSTRACT
In a step-by-step process, destructive leaders and their propaganda machines enhance a shared sense of victimisation within the large group. Political propaganda exists in all politically organised large groups. As human history proceeded, the appearance of propaganda in its broader sense became more closely connected with religious issues. Since propaganda and manipulation exist in every politically organised society, one can argue that differences between the type of propaganda utilised by the leader and his or her associates in one large group and that of another large group will be only a matter of degree. Future suicide bombers became agents of the large-group identity and would attempt to repair it for themselves and for other members of the large group. The suicide bomber was primarily under the dictates of large-group psychology and not under the influence of the bomber’s own individual psychology.
