Rabu, 14 Oktober 2009

[bali-bali] Re: Akar Terorisme Bukanlah Kemiskinan ataupun Kurangnya Pendidikan

Oh may I add:

Victim mentality. Freaking loosers. BANCI.

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Selama ini kan faktor "kemiskinan" / "ketidakdilan" ini kan cuma dipake ama mereka untuk menguatkan image "victim", demi simpati.... Puah. Victim mentality. Freaking loosers.

-Raka-

--- In bali-bali@yahoogroups.com, Rivan Royono <rivanroyono@...> wrote:
>
> The Root Cause of Terrorism? Not Poverty or Lack of Education
>
> Indonesian Policies and Quirks
>
>
> When it comes to identifying the root cause of terrorism, many are
> compelled to point fingers on poverty and lack of education.  The
> argument, in a nutshell, goes somewhat as follows: Poor, uneducated
> people are easily lured to promises of heaven and blowing other people
> up to attain them.
>
> However, such theory does not stand its ground when confronted with
> facts.  Marc Sageman of Foreign Policy Research Institute compiled the
> background data of around 400 Al-Qaeda members and discovered that
> three quarters of his sample belonged to the middle or upper class.  He
> further noted that, “[T]he vast majority â€"90 percentâ€"came from caring,
> intact families.  Sixty-three percent had gone to college, as compared
> with the 5-6 percent that’s usual for the third world.  These are the
> best and brightest of their societies in many ways.”
>
> Economists Efraim Benmelech of Harvard University and Claude Berrebi
> of RAND Corporation also came to the same conclusion when they gathered
> data on Palestinian suicide bombers in Israel from 2000 to 2005.  They
> discovered that education is very much valued in the “terrorism
> market.”  Better educated individuals are more likely to be successful
> in carrying out large-scale terrorist attacks and have lower chances of
> getting caught.
>
> It should also be noted that the alleged leader of the 9/11 attack,
> Mohammed Atta, had a graduate degree, while both Azahari and Noordin
> Top, masterminds of the major terrorist attacks in the last decade in
> Indonesia, were skilled engineers and scientists.  None of them were
> poor; all three came from affluent families.
>
> Obviously, the majority of terrorists in the world don’t fit the
> poor and uneducated profile.  As such, simply expanding education and
> eradicating poverty would unlikely affect terrorist recruitment.  We
> need to look deeper.  In that light, there are at least three issues
> that are often overlooked, each bearing a consequence in how public
> policies should be shaped and how we as the community should act in
> countering the seeds of terrorism.
> Read more...
>


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