While we're at it, let's address the other widely held myth that martyrdom grants the fundamentalist access to given number of virgins in heaven.
The actual truth is that rather than heavenly access to a host of virgins, Islam actually proscribes access to 70
raisins. Go figure.
The way I see it, if someone is willing to blow themselves up, they are not going to be deterred by pigskin, leftist/rightist criticism or anything else we might have up our sleeves. We should be looking at the roots of the problem that make people feel this way in the first place because deterrants are not going to have a great deal of effect after the fact.