Thank you Hank for your comment. I actually wish to make a statement that I'm writing generically and I disclaim any deliberate references to specific political figures, states, or to religions. My comments are ideology-centric and not political - trying to say that we should both globally and domestically invest in the progressive development of human mind rather than finding ways to feed people, and that less spending on national security issues could enable this much less costly operation. I hope I didn't get a bit off topic, just your words caught my attention. I didn't mean to address the topic of terrorism in particular, but the fact that educating an individual is the best way to give them food and get them to participate positively. My response comments within text below.
Cheers Khaled adar wrote: > As I recall, most of the terrorists who attacked the World Trade Towers > had degrees and some may even have had advanced degrees. ... Actually, the first bombing attack of the 1990's was directed by an extremist with no education, except for practicing extremities of the religion. But yes, the second airplane attack was orchestrated and executed with skillful people. That is no good education since it lacks the intellectual and reasoning dimension, resulting from their background culture that is a result of poverty or lack of education of predecessors, creating the foundation for extremity. ... The main reason for such organizations leads to go extreme or terror is their feeling of desperation within their own nations and/or their anger of the suffering of Palestinians inside the occupied territories. In their own minds, they believe they are helping out this way since they do not have military resources. They also use this argument to recruit from among the public. The leads have strategic political and ideological objectives, the followers assume they are in an actual battlefield. They tend to set their own parameters to justify their battle. ... Also, terrorism is not a Moslem invention in spite of the fact that a small fraction of their population have done the job of sticking it to Islam. There was terrorism by Northern Ireland liberation movements and still likewise in the Basque. Sometimes as well the overlap between terrorism and resistance for a cause gets blurred. > Many of the leaders of these organizations have degrees. ... Not really, few of those organizations are lead by educated people. Most of them are only into religious-focused practices. Most "recruits" who form the wide base of an organization are semi of fully illiterate and so easy to brain wash. Teaching just the Qur'an or bible is no education, that's what I meant to say. They try to re-create out-of-context scenarios from the past because of their simplistic background culture and poor education quality, which means they're not fully or rightly educated. Or they should have learned to separate religion, from politics, from science. > The Madrassashs in > Middle-East teach among other things, hatred for the infidel, especially > Christians and Jews. ... I don't know what is the 'Madrassashs'. The infidel referred to the Qur'an were mainly the atheist Arabs, and surrounding nations like the atheist Persians and Byzantines - and generally any atheists and not people of previous faiths. Proper Moslems pay due regard to Jewish and Christian religions and all other holy messages. Qur'an has told so. ... Allow me to drive some examples: 1. It was the Orthodox Christian Ethiopians who gave refuge to early Moslems who've been fought out by the infidel Arabs at that time; 2. Among typical Moslem names are: Jesus, Moses, Joseph, and Jacob (their Arabic language pronunciation equivalents); 3. Moslems' prayers pay due attribute to Abram/Abraham/Ibrahim (as the grandfather of most prophets) in the exact same capacity that they pay for Mohammad; - In a Moslem denominated country like Egypt (my native), and though we're proud of ancient Egyptian civilizations and Pharaohs such as Ramses II, who is believed to be the Moses-time Pharaoh; in a religious Islamic context, Moslems fully sympathize with the Israelites against the infidel king at the time. I mean, when a Moslem Egyptian is watching a movie like "The Ten Commandments," their heart goes with the savior of the Israelites from the oppressing king who used to kill their new born every other year. > To most Muslims education is study of the Koran. ... That's unfortunately true to an extent and this is no education. Responsibility of rightfully educating them is not necessarily the responsibility of richer nations. It actually better come from within - but richer nations can help giving a lift. This is a period in history that follows centuries of colonization and poverty that still dominates most of the 1.5B Moslems, who once had a significant civilization and made their recognized contribution to knowledge. They will take time to heal and recover. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
