Interesting

More information is coming out regarding the perpetrators of the bombing attacks in London. It turns out that those who participated were highly educated, highly religious and really really angry over the Iraq war. The fact that this is news shows how the west continues to misunderstand the nature of the Islamic cause.

The fact that all the suspects were well-off and had tons of education shouldn't be surprising, says an interesting piece in the WSJ that reports on the research work of a Princeton economist who says that it's a "misconception" to think poverty leads to terrorism. Alan Krueger says there's simply no evidence to prove that the uneducated and the poor are more likely to carry out a terrorist act, and, in fact, the opposite is usually true.

It seems unfathomable to the lizard brain conservatives that these people might actually believe in their cause. They'd rather wallow around in the cliche's of middle easterners as poverty ridden, ignorant, backward tribal heathens who just need some edukation. In fact, middle easterners have a proud tradition and long history and, like everyone else on the planet, are quite proud of themselves. So is it really any surprise that well-educated individuals would decide to give their lives to fight an invasion in the best ways they know how?

Just askin' .....