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Originally Posted by martinguerre
To our great surprise, they did not like being treated as second class citizens, kept in poverty and subjected to racism. How this prevented adoption of Western values is not yet known.
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This is no different than arguing that "that slut provoked me into raping her."
As for the "we kept them in poverty" hypothesis, it simply doesn't hold up under careful examination. The world's best known terrorists, Usama and Yasser (RIP) are multimillionaires. The 19 Jihadists who hijacked the planes on 9-11-01 were from middle and upper class families. Then there's the actual research:
"In the past, we heard people refer to the strong link between terrorism and poverty, but in fact when you look at the data, it's not there. This is true not only for events of international terrorism, as previous studies have shown, but perhaps more surprisingly also for the overall level of terrorism, both of domestic and of foreign origin." For the entire article go to
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/...05-terror.html