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This will have the added benefit of cutting off funding to Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and so reduce global terrorism.
I think it may have the opposite effect - cause more terrorism. There will be millions of young people living in abject poverty and no future. The people susceptible to terrorism are those who have nothing good in life to look forward to.
Osama Bin-fucking-Laden belonged to a wealthy family.
Sorry, not buying the theory.
That was the result of extremely important Dutch research, led by a group of academics at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Terrorists seem to be models of successful integration: for instance, Mohammed Bouyeri, the Moroccan-Dutch terrorist who shot the filmmaker Theo van Gogh to death, then stabbed him and slit his throat in 2004. "He [Bouyeri] was a well-educated guy with good prospects," said Job Cohen, the Labor Party mayor of Amsterdam.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9343/terrorism-poverty-despair
Recruits to Islamic militant groups are likely to be well educated and relatively wealthy, with those aspiring to be suicide bombers among the best off, a study by the World Bank has found.
I see. So make the muslims poorer and less educated, and they will hate us less and believe the mullahs less. Genius!
FP saysI see. So make the muslims poorer and less educated, and they will hate us less and believe the mullahs less. Genius!
No, it's to point out the usual remedies offered by Liberals are not panaceas...
Trump got elected in spite of (or maybe because of) elitist attempts to force Hillary on an unwilling electorate via control of the media and corruption in the DNC.
The people susceptible to terrorism....
The question here was whether impoverishing the muslim countries will further or less radicalize their population. Patrick apparently thinks the latter, while I said it would be the former.
"If ONLY people were rich and educated, then all the world's problems will be solved!" No. Rich and Well-Educated people are perfectly capable of being ideologues, religious fanatics, or just plain evil greedbags.
Yet americans still equate happiness with money.
Because money allows one to fly to Australia and legally fuck hoes! Try to do that, on financial aid.
The question here was whether impoverishing the muslim countries will further or less radicalize their population
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Because money allows one to fly to Australia and legally fuck hoes! Try to do that,on financialsick with aids.
vary depending on religion
Is there some causal connection?
They like their women fat there.
curious2 saysvary depending on religion
This is beyond the point, george. We are not comparing different religions (in this thread), but the same(!) people - wealthier in one point of time and poorer in another.
Georgie, don't get a heart attack now.
Trump got elected in spite of (or maybe because of) elitist attempts to force Hillary on an unwilling electorate via control of the media and corruption in the DNC.
Globally, the population is nearing its peak and will stabilize as the birth and death rates converge:
Even if global warming is caused by fossil fuels, the cost of solar power will soon be less than the cost of oil, so people will stop using oil:
This will have the added benefit of cutting off funding to Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and so reduce global terrorism.
Fear gets attention, so the media will always stoke fear, but overall, the world seems to be on the right track.
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