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Originally Posted by bradclark1
In my veiw it's not religion, it's revolution, and when you want a revolution who do you recruit? The poor and those unhappy with their lot in life. They see themselves going nowhere in there own countries which have little to no industry and live hand to mouth. Why are muslims flocking to european countries? To improve their lot in life. What they find is low paying or no jobs at all and are treated as second class citizens. It isn't hard for these immams(?) to feed on this misery.
My view on these so called religious leaders is that a lot are nothing but wannabe mafia style boss's that use religion as a front to gain personal wealth and power. It's a huge scam and it's showing itself to be building in momentum.
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Interesting theory, but perhaps I think it interesting mainly because it is a much more complete and well reasoned explanation than that offered by the "Islam=terrorism" club
Also since poverty, marginalization, stigmatization certainly
do correlate with other forms of "deviant" (in the sense of being outside the norm) behaviour that Western society has gotten used to, I would be very surprised if there was absolutely no correlation between these factors and those individuals who commit terrorist acts. In fact, if we look outside the "West" to Israel there is indeed correlation in that the Palestinians seem to fit all 3 criteria. But still that is only correlation and not causation. :hmm:
Editted to add (before I get jumped on here by the usual suspects):
By "seems" I meant "seems to me". I've never been to Israel and my knowledge of the situation there is limited to the odd newspaper/magazine article that inevitably gets printed after the latest attack/retaliation.
Also, even if there is any correlation (to any degree) with any of the 3 factors thae it doesn't mean that factor(s) is any way a cause of the terrorism in that region. Nor does it equate to assigning blame or taking any sides in that equation.