In Islam, are suicide bombings justified?

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It doesn't mention 72 virgins in the Quran . Also you are wrong about Abrahamic tradition. You are confusing rule for this lifetime with Heaven. The reality is Heaven is hardly described.

However in Christian (particularly Roman church) teaching heaven is more of a state like Nirvana than a place.

However there is not consistent description.

Well obviously.
Its says "has a head LIKE a raisin". Doesnt say "raisin as a head".

I don't think it was even necessarily believed that there was a life hereafter for a lot of the people living by the OT. I don't know if you checked out what I sent on Flavius Josephus but his mentioning of the curtains of the temple, the shewbread, the candles of the menorah, etc.. - that's a first century CE pagan musing at all the astrological import that the 2nd temple of Jerusalem was built upon. That and technically when people confront cultures who claim to worship the sun, moon, stars, etc.. still they'd always argue that they're not worshiping the physical or visible body of satellites but the principles they believe them to represent. If Judaism could argue that for all of its astrological import that it worshiped one god it was still a religion that built the manifestations of that god on the zodiac and planets - the difference in the two practices seems semantic at best.

I guess I'd just reassert that almost all of those sevens, if not all, were subsidiary to there being seven luminaries in the sky and if we'd seen eleven it would have been eleven instead. I say almost all because the days in the week may have been an attempt by the Babylonians based on a four-part cycle of the moon.

The type of Islamists that tend to support that tend to part of the militant subgroup of the revivalist subgroup of Islamic Modernists. They tend to pick and choose elements of tradition and past writings that they accept or deny and combine it with ideas they come up with for justifying their goals.

In my opinion the radicalism in Islam, is in part related to sectarianism and tribalism. These leads to neurosis and cultural paranoia, which can be passed between generations, especial in non-secular groups. This is seen as modern problem, however I think it is related to sectarianism that goes back 13 centuries to the battle of Karbala.

This is certainly the case with the Commander of groups like ISIS and Al Quida. It is somewhat different for westerner who are radicalised, however there are trained in this conspiratorial mentality and may have an element of this from their family background.

Although the Ba'athist, Nasserist and Arab Nationalist/Pan-Arab movements were a reaction against the tribalism, instead of the addressing the sectarian divide they enforces rule with an iron fist. You can argue this was just a survival strategy for minority groups rather than genuine attempt at unity, and certainly it was minority rule in practice in the case of Ba'athism. This only encouraged resentment, till it boils over.

So this existential conflict prevails. Western intervention has certainly not helped but it is not the whole story as sometimes suggested.