This research debunks the Leftist-Marxist claim that violent people act out because of poverty and non-Muslim societies’ lack of interest in integrating Muslims. Via 10news.dk, translated from JP:
The militants, who have departed from Denmark and have been killed on the battlefield in Syria, grew up in the Danish society.
This is the conclusion of research on those jihadis killed in Syria.
According to the Police Intelligence Service (PET), at least 15 people from Denmark have lost their lives in Syria.
The 11 that Politiken (newspaper) has been able to identify have all attended a Danish school, received Danish education, spoke fluent Danish and navigated as natives in the Danish society. …
…the survey also shows that those warriors killed in Syria often come from seemingly well-functioning families.
“They are in most cases relatively normal functioning. They are not disadvantaged and have had a reasonable upbringing.”
Chrissy says
That doesn’t surprise me at all. Being disadvantaged isn’t an automatic entry into violence or radicalism.
Jay Boo says
The news media is at fault
While not all Muslims are terrorists, the term ‘radicalism’ is an often used in the MSM to absolve the ideology of Islam to any connection with its butchery when it is in fact at the very core of this violence.
SpiritOf1683 says
Zimbabweans are disadvantaged but they’re not planning atrocities worldwide. The truly disadvantaged have to spend their lives and put all their efforts into putting food on the table and providing drinking water for themselves and their families. They have no time for anything else.
Paul says
Your observations are spot on. Marx AND Engels were the products of German middle class families. Lenin’s upbringing was also middle class. Stalin’s wasn’t, but there has to be an outlier somewhere!
As I remember, not one of the 9/11 murderers was impoverished or came from hardscrabble backgrounds. Mohammed Atta studied architecture — not exactly a poor man’s field of study. Bin Laden clearly wasn’t impoverished by our standards, although given his family’s wealth he might have had to get along on a few million less than more favored sibs.
wakethe****up says
Breiviks fears were justified, not his actions.
Angemon says
A claim which, by now, it’s not comparable to beating a dead horse, it’s comparable to beating the dark-red stain where the dead horse used to lie before it was beaten into disintegration.
Citizen Warrior says
Poverty does not cause terrorism; it has been proven in may studies”-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBr1YOjAfbo
President’s Speakers Series: “Terrorism and Communication,” Dr. Jonathan Matusitz
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4qFw6SGI_s
How Culture Shapes Terrorism – Dr. Jonathan Matusitz & Rep. Sandy Adams
Both very interesting viewing.
Citizen Warrior says
Also, a good source of information
http://www.terrorismanalysts.com/pt/index.php/pot/article/view/352/html
Home page
http://www.terrorismanalysts.com/pt/index.php/pot/index
dumbledoresarmy says
From the article – “According to the Police Intelligence Service (PET), at least 15 people from Denmark have lost their lives in Syria.
The 11 that Politiken (newspaper) has been able to identify have all attended a Danish school, received Danish education, spoke fluent Danish and navigated as natives in the Danish society. ”
“People from Denmark”. That should have been “Fifteen Muslims from Denmark” or “Fifteen Danish-passport-holding Muslims.”
Fifteen!
All dead jihad fi sabil allah.
O well, better out than in, and better dead than coming back to Denmark “blooded” and battle-hardened and raring to get on with the job of waging jihad **in Denmark**.
Denmark is well rid of them. Fifteen mohammedans that the Danish police and homeland security people will no longer have to worry about. Scratch their names off the long, long list…supposing they were *on* the long, long list, to begin with.
Now, if Denmark were to put a stop henceforward to the immigration of Muslims, and at the same time, were to allow murder-minded fools like this to *depart*…whilst taking steps to *prevent* their return (hint: cancel passports!), this would be a win-win, as the ummah presence in Denmark gradually got whittled down.