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Posted by Gormogon on Tue Jul 10 20:00:05 2012, in response to Re: Egypt Revolts; Imams call for destruction of pyramids, posted by ClearAspect on Tue Jul 10 19:35:56 2012. But in this situation its not whole nations that are fighting the US to the death but rather rebels who are using the impoverished and uneducated to their advantage.You mean uneducated types like the ones described in this article: We examined the educational backgrounds of 75 terrorists behind some of the most significant recent terrorist attacks against Westerners. We found that a majority of them are college-educated, often in technical subjects like engineering. In the four attacks for which the most complete information about the perpetrators' educational levels is available - the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, the attacks on the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, the 9/11 attacks, and the Bali bombings in 2002 - 53 percent of the terrorists had either attended college or had received a college degree. Source: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/akhwaja/media/madrassa/NYTimes.htm The link between poverty and terrorism is likewise questionable: Asked whether there were "any circumstances under which you would justify the use of terrorism to achieve political goals," the higher-status respondents (merchant, farmer or professional) were more likely to agree (43.3 percent) than those lower down the ladder (laborer, craftsman or employee) (34.6 percent). The higher-status respondents were also more likely to support armed attacks against Israeli targets (86.7 percent to 80.8 percent). The same dynamic existed when education was taken into account. In another study, 129 Hezbollah militants who died in action (not all of them in activities that could be considered terrorism) were compared to the general Lebanese population. The Hezbollah members were slightly less likely to be poor, and significantly more likely to have finished high school. Source: http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/13/magazines/fortune/pluggedin_murphy_terror.fortune/index.htm |
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