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It is not merely the uneducated who can subscribe to extremist ideologies. When the unskilled highschool grad gets off the plane and signs up, they are going t
by Crito 12y ago
It is not merely the uneducated who can subscribe to extremist ideologies.
When the unskilled highschool grad gets off the plane and signs up, they are going to give him a rifle. When the engineer gets off the plane and announces himself as such, there is a chance that he will be put to better use.
- junto 12y agoSadly, the fastest route to martyrdom is quite literally by biting a bullet, so no, AK-47's all round. Keyboards don't have quite the same sacrificial qualities.
- nilbot 12y agoI can imagine that those AKs are just the front. There might be someone or some organizations that sponsor the extremists. Money or otherwise. People who might benefit from instability, hatred towards the US etc.
- JonnieCache 12y agoIslamist groups are not so fixated on martyrdom and the proverbial 72 virgins as you may have been led to believe.
- vegedor 12y agoIslamist Groups ight not be as homogenous as the GP implies, either. Some higher ups might actually have perfidious goals. But what am I talking about, religion was never used as means to manipulate followers, ever.
- Havoc 12y ago>It is not merely the uneducated who can subscribe to extremist ideologies. Indeed. And I'll happily concede that point. I (and many other) are just surprised at the thought process...physical hardware attack in (presumably a western data center)...and the thing that comes to mind is the ISIS??? Really if you tell me Russia I would have bought it. Same for China, Korea, Turkey etc...but jumping straight to the cliched CNN "terror org" that is the flavor of the month...please...