Paper Title
Self- Sacrifice Or Sacrificial Lamb? When Female Suicide Bombers Transgress In The Novel Martyr

Abstract
As a Muslim, one was taught that certain actions were haram. Haram and Halal are terms used to describe things that are prohibited (haram) or allowed (halal). Eating pork and drinking alcohol are haram, stealing or telling a lie is also haram. Hurting others, including oneself, is also considered haram since the body and life are gifts from Allah. Suicide would send you straight to the fiery hereafter since this was taking what did not belong to you but rather to Allah. If suicide is considered a sin or haram, yet it is seen as the greatest sacrifice a Muslim could make for the sake of the ummah, is this not a big contradiction? Can people decide on what they wish to be or are individual’s action determined by drives over which they have no reign? Can behaviour be to some extent free and comparatively influencedsimultaneously?To commit suicide and kill others at the same time is a product of hopelessness and desperateness among the Palestinians. When hope diminishes, they see martyrdom as the ultimate redemption, out of dire hopelessnessand cruel condition they dwell in; there is the promise that they will have a better life in heaven. This study intends to investigatethe deviant women characters in the novel Martyr, the protagonist defile the sacredness oflife by turning into a walking bomb. This research argues that these women arenot self-sacrificing for the organisation but rather, are used asthe sacrificial lamb.By utilising the Death Drive Theory, this paper will discuss the elements of the making of “Islamikaze" arising from the chaos and trauma of the Palestinian-Israel conflict as portrayed by the characters in the novelMartyr. The central characters in this novel are women, who were manipulated by the terrorists’ system into assuming that their belief and affiliation left them no choice but to become martyrs by faith. Keywords: Sacrifice, Female, Suicide, Bomber, Transgress, Martyr