I reject your leap-of-faith assumption above. The if/then statement lacks substantiative arguments. Self-immolation harms only yourself, not others. Probably why your garden-variety suicide isn't considered a terrorist act. But you're not that ignorant, so I have to wonder what's really going on here?

You argue semantics as if somehow my accidental pluralization of a word somehow changed its meaning - it didn't - and your correction proves that, so again, please feel free to speak your mind, but do so plainly.

Are you confusing political radicalism with religious extremism or is it the denotation of my specific words you wish to clarify to ensure that the acts you and I may see in radically behaving monks is indeed unprecedented enough in that culture to warrant their use? Because I can change them if that will help.