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Originally Posted by Ustwo
This is utterly wrong.
Most of the terrorists do not come from poverty, and many come from very well off families (Osma being the very classic example).
Its not poverty that makes one a violent asshole, its culture, be it the culture of the ghetto in New Orleans, or the death cult that is modern Islamic thought.
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We don't know that. To say that most terrorists are like Osama is blatently false. Osama has the economic wherewithall to be a leader of terrorists. Still some must be his followers. I submit that they are not all rich.
I think that you can not isolate culture from poverty. There are some extremely impoverished people in Uganda (the world's 7th poorest nation) but they come here and many end up working all the time -like three jobs. Poverty didn't make them violent. However in Northern Uganda, there is a huge problem with a Christian Fundamentalist Terror group known as the LRA. The Lord's Resistance Army was started within a tribe which was impoverished and
had a sense of entitlement over other tribes.
Feel free to argue with me on any of this... just start a new thread as it is nearly completely -off topic.
I think that is what is happening here. Allah has promised these people that they -the representatives of the One True Religion -should be masters of the world. The only problem is that their extreme adherance to this faith has resulted in a sort of "dark ages" for them. Now any criticism, especially by their "lessers" is like rubbing a raw wound. After all, why aren't they God's chosen people?