Tag: Education

Does education breed terrorism? The simple and non-politically-correct answer is yes. The politicians around the world are busy selling the snake oil that poverty and low education is behind the rise of Muslim terrorism around the globe. But the facts and actions of very well-to-do and educated high-profile terrorists do not support their claims. There are plenty of examples to show that education among Muslims increases the number of terrorists as well as their sophistication. For example:

1. Osama Bin Laden — son of a billionaire and earned an engineering degree according to some sources
2. Ayman Al-Zawahiri — born in an upper middle-class family and was a surgeon in the Egyptian army
3. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi — PhD in Islamic studies

These are the top masterminds, but even the foot-level soldiers who engage in suicide bombing are usually fairly educated as well, including the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and Indian Mujahideen (IM). Peter Bergen and Swati Pandey looked at the education profile of terrorists involved in high-profile terrorist attacks like 9/11 and Bali bombings and found that most of them had decent or high education.

These attitudes towards terrorism are reflected even better in a detailed study by Krueger and Maleckova done on Palestinian suicide bombers. Based on rigorous sample data, they find evidence for higher support for terrorist activities among educated Muslims. This can even be seen in places like Palestine, where labourers and craftsmen — the poorest in Palestinian society — support terrorism significantly less than those who are educated. Claude Berribi, in his 2003 study, found that most of the suicide bombers were educated and had a high percentage of those who went to some university.

Alen Krueger, who served under Obama as Assistant Secretary and can be expected to be politically correct while giving out the results of his studies, had to say this on the matter of terrorism:

The evidence suggests that terrorists care about influencing political outcomes. They are often motivated by geopolitical grievances. To understand who joins terrorist organizations, instead of asking who has a low salary and few opportunities, we should ask: Who holds strong political views and is confident enough to try to impose an extremist vision by violent means? Most terrorists are not so desperately poor that they have nothing to live for. Instead, they are people who care so fervently about a cause that they are willing to die for it.

— Alen Krueger

Why does this phenomenon occur? It is simple — the poor are usually less fanatical about religion because they don’t have a full stomach with which to contemplate the idea of Jihad against the kafirs. They are usually more worried about their daily food which is hard to come by. So it is usually the middle and upper class Muslims — free from the need to fight starvation — who can think about religion and culture. Sure, poor Muslims do go out and engage in riots as a pack of hyenas scavenging on their group mentality, but it is the middle class which helps them do it and engages in terrorist activities across the world.

The rich Muslims need to prove their Muslim identity, which results in ensuing conflict with their national and cultural identity — and they become more and more radical, emulating the example of their Prophet. This is the reason why middle-class Muslims act like Arab wannabes throughout the world and are the biggest supporters of Jihad. And of course, seeing how British and French Muslims are 30 times as rich as Indian Muslims, shouldn’t France and Britain have Islamic pestilence 30 times lower than India? But none of the research shows that — and the prevalence of Islamism among British and French Muslims is not any lower compared to Pakistani and Bengali Muslims. Doesn’t this blow up the whole “poor Indian Muslim terrorist” narrative of the secular and leftist Indian idiots?

Although support for terrorism is high all across the entire Muslim world, the support that terrorists have among educated Muslims is particularly worrying. This might seem counter-intuitive to many who have heard the lies and propaganda about education solving terrorism, but for any rational mind it would be very obvious and logical. The truth of the matter is, any Jihadist attack requires a massive amount of technological mastery to pull it off. A common poor Muslim peasant will not be able to work with and successfully explode sophisticated bombs, nor would he have access to or ability to use the high-tech gadgets needed to co-ordinate the attacks.

Most terrorist attacks happen due to intelligence lapses — meaning that most terrorist attacks slip through intelligence agencies which are themselves very well equipped. To launch an attack, terrorists need a high level of sophistication to slip through the intelligence network. Operating this equipment requires reasonable technical skills which the uneducated poor usually lack. Also, unlike the poor, the middle-class Muslim doesn’t have to worry about feeding his family, which leaves him free to rush and die for the cowardly Jihadist acts in the name of their psycho god.

Indians are just waking up to the menace of Islamic terrorism and have been thoroughly brainwashed by the media into believing that the source of Muslim extremism is poverty and lack of education. But the studies above clearly show that more educated Muslims will only make the problem even more severe. The educated Muslims will be more inclined to use violence to attain the political aim of Dar-ul-Islam in India. Jinnah, who was a barrister at the time of independence, very well defended the rapes and murders unleashed by the Muslim League on Direct Action Day. One should not expect it to get any better in the future.

The list of Indians travelling to Syria to fight on the side of ISIS has been going up for some time. If you carefully look at the education and social background of these wannabe toilet-cleaners (oops — Jihadis!) of ISIS, you will realize that all of them come from well-to-do families and have higher education. Mehdi Masroor Biswas, who was handling a pro-ISIS handle on Twitter, was a Bangalore-based engineer.

So while India’s leaders might try to sell the snake oil that everything will be fine once all Muslims are educated, it is only going to get worse as they learn better bomb-making skills in government-funded engineering schools. The large number of well-educated European-bred ISIS terrorists, born to second or third generation immigrants, should open the eyes of secular Indians that their fate would be no different. Indians can pretend that Islamism and terrorism will suddenly vanish through economic growth, but it is just wishful thinking. If anything, the arguments and data presented above only show that the real Islamic threat to India will only worsen as economic growth picks up and Indian Muslims become wealthier to wage war for their barbaric ideology without worrying about daily bread and butter.