Class Dismissed

Enough already from the clueless at the Times spewing forth nonsense about how the terrorists are fighting because of class struggles. If one were to actually interview the terrorists detained by the US, you'd note that they are overwhelmingly middle to upper class and college educated.

Andrew Apostolou emails an article published last year by the BBC. Dr Andrew Silke interviewed 180 Al Qaeda detainees and learned, among other things, that every single one of them came from upper or middle-class backgrounds. Two thirds were college educated. One in ten held a post-graduate degree. Islamists terrorists are far wealthier and better educated than Westerners on average. We're not under assault by the have-nots, we're under assault by the haves.

In other words, class has nothing to do with it.

Religious ideology on the other hand, has a definite role. All the detainees are Islamic fundamentalists who seek to conquer the West through jihad. They are untroubled by killing civilians, because their ideology doesn't even recognize the term civilian. You are either one with the jihadis or you are an infidel.