Noone living a confortable life in financial security and being acknowledged by society and friends would join a terrorist group. It's a combination of a lotta factors, but I doubt those girls were religious fanatics in the first place.
Not true at all. None of the men who flew the planes on 911 were impoverished or uneducated. Osama Bin Laden and several of his Jihadist comrades came from wealth.
The chronic cluelessness of the root-cause apologists of jihad never ceases to amaze. Britain’s MI5 reported in 2011 that two-thirds of UK jihad suspects were from middle-class backgrounds, “showing there is no simplistic relationship between poverty and involvement in Islamist extremism.” Thorough reviews of the empirical evidence shows, as the RAND Corp. reported, “Terrorists are not particularly impoverished, uneducated or afflicted by mental disease. Demographically, their most important characteristic is normalcy (within their environment). Terrorist leaders actually tend to come from relatively privileged backgrounds.”
Here’s a refresher cheat sheet:
• 9/11 lead hijacker Mohammed Atta went to Hamburg University to study urban planning.
• Convicted al Qaeda scientist Aafia Siddiqui is a Pakistani who studied microbiology at MIT and did graduate work in neurology at Brandeis.
• Osama bin Laden did a summer school stint at Oxford.
• Underwear bomb operative Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab was an elite Nigerian engineering student who studied at one of Britain’s leading universities and “lived a gilded life.”
• British-born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheik, a London School of Economics student, was convicted of abducting and murdering American journalist Daniel Pearl.
• Seven upper-middle-class jihadi doctors were implicated in the 2007 London/Glasgow bombings.
• Al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri had a medical degree. So did former Hamas biggie Abdel al-Rantissi.
• Khalid Sheik Mohammed attended Chowan College in Murfreesboro, N.C., and then transferred to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, where he earned his degree in mechanical engineering along with 30 other Muslims. Mohammed applied his Western learning to oversee the 1993 World Trade Center bombing plot, the USS Cole attack and the 9/11 attacks. He also has been linked to the 1998 African embassy bombings, the plot to kill the pope, the murder of journalist Daniel Pearl and the Bali nightclub bomb blast that killed nearly 200 tourists.
http://nypost.com/2014/01/17/its-not-poverty-that-breeds-jihadis/
