From: word_chemist@hotmail.com   
      
   "Martha Bridegam"  wrote in message   
   news:NQTJf.22210$_S7.5830@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com...   
   > Ben Brumfield wrote:   
   > > To keep this from drifting off-topic rapidly, let's qualify "terrorism"   
   > > with "... which we in the West care about."  Based on that, if you look   
   > > at the location within the economic spectrum of the perpetrators of   
   > > 9/11 or 7/7, the correlation between terrorism and poverty appears to   
   > > be either negative or nonexistent.   
   > >   
   > > Other than redefining "terrorism" to be something else altogether, do   
   > > you have any data whatsoever that disproves that?  I have no doubt that   
   > > you can show terrorists originating from societies with a wide gulf   
   > > between rich and poor, but I can't imagine you can decribe the   
   > > murderous thugs of 9/11 or 7/1 as "poor" by any definition that makes   
   > > sense.   
   > >   
   > > -Ben   
   > >   
   >   
   > Not individually poor, no, but driven by resentments that   
   > have to do with the gap between the First and Third Worlds.   
   >   
   > I am speaking, of course, in an effort to explain, with no   
   > wish to condone.   
      
   What the Islamic world resents is the first world - everything from its   
   cartoons to its architecture. This is not about money, it is about culture.   
   Specifically, submission to the koran - that is *all* Islamic societies and   
   behaviour are based on - versus, shall we say, our way of going on.   
   Redistribution of wealth, the latte Marxists attempts to cuddle up and say   
   'we can kill daddy together', sorting out Welsh buses and burying your head   
   in the sand of second tier governance (a fave trick with the W.Left) will   
   not make a dime of difference.   
      
   ROBBIE   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)