One, Islamist terrorists as a group most certainly did NOT love death.

They surrendered in droves, and their leaders never risked a precious whisker of their OWN pious beards.

Two, when the enemy senselessly throws away his life, by definition he will lose.

Example:

The Islamic State put their best men into suicide units called the Inghemasiyoun.

"Those who immerse themselves."

The best-trained, most-experienced men were Inghemasiyoun.