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Originally posted by harleyquinn:
... The study of Sociology teaches that when education level increases, the tendency towards violent crime decreases.
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That may have some value as a rule of thumb for "ordinary" violent crime, but I very much doubt that to be the case for politically motivated crime, read terrorism.
As Johnny already pointed out the terrorists of 9/11 were well-educated members of the upper middle or even upper classes of their respective home countries.
Similarly, the radical leftish terrorists in Europe (Germany, Italy) of the 1970ies and 80ies used to be fairly well-educated and from middle class backgrounds. They fancied to be acting on behalf of the oppressed, yet unfortunately still unenlightened masses.
And in Palestine the suicide bombers might be young and uneducated, but I'd be surprised if that was also true for the majority of the ideologists/leaders of organisations like Hamas or Hizbullah.
After all, one basic concept behind terrorism is that an avant garde political elite commits the terrorists acts to provoke the attacked government/political system into overreacting in its response, thereby revealing its "true" oppressive, unjust, etc. nature to the still to a wider public, which will ultimately promote the political chances that the terrorists' ideology demands.
[ 06-24-2003, 04:03 PM: Message edited by: Ramon de Ramon y Ramon ]