Isil recruits better educated than their average countryman, World Bank study finds
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[quote]Recruits to Isil are better educated than their average countryman, contrary to popular belief, according to a new World Bank study.
Moreover, those offering to become suicide bombers ranked on average in the more educated group, said the newly released study titled Economic and Social Inclusion to Prevent Violent Extremism.
The study, which aimed to identify socioeconomic traits that might explain why some are drawn to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil), made clear that poverty and deprivation were not at the root of support for the group.
Almost without exception, fighters joining the terror group's Syria and Iraq-based forces had several more years of education in their home countries - whether in Europe, Africa or elsewhere in the Middle East - than the average citizen.
The data shows clearly, the report said, that "poverty is not a driver of radicalization into violent extremism."[/quote]
[url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/06/isil-recruits-better-educated-than-their-average-countryman-worl/[/url]
Is it possible that it's because a lot of recruits come from better off countries where decent education is more easily accessible?
[QUOTE=GordonZombie;51167127]Is it possible that it's because a lot of recruits come from better off countries where decent education is more easily accessible?[/QUOTE]
It's comparing the education level of ISIS recruits to people [B]in the same country[/B]. For example, British ISIS recruits are on average better educated than most Britons.
Firgure 2.4 from the study is relevant here:
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[QUOTE=Trebgarta;51167141]The report is not focused mainly on terrorism, it is an economic monitor report.
Here is the conclusion paragraph:
The highlight is on "lack of inclusion" yet it is nowhere to be seen in the Telegraph article, this is simply omitting parts of the report that are not convenient to publish.[/QUOTE]
The Telegraph article is focused on a single part of the study.
wait is ISil also ISIS?
The idea that terrorists are uneducated and impoverished is a myth.
Most terrorists are educated middle class.
[QUOTE=Trebgarta;51167229]That is one part. Singular part. As a whole. They left the convenient half out, and it just happens to perpetuate this
attitude of "aint nothing to it, Islam made em do it".
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It is ISIL, ISIS, IS and Daesh[/QUOTE]
Actually if "Islam made em do it" was the line they were trying to push, this article works against them. The point is that it takes a good education in order to be enraptured by a revanchist, supremacist ideological movement like Islamism. Poor, uneducated workers are just as religious as anyone else except they don't get involved in the movement.
[QUOTE=Marbalo;51167139]I wonder what else could it be then[/QUOTE]
Heh enough time must have past since the holocaust if a jew would demonize others for their religion without sensing any irony
It's like if millennials became terrorists
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