Doesn’t Mohamad al-Bared know that poverty and ignorance cause terrorism?
The idea that poverty causes terrorism, so thoroughly contradicted by this story, is a call for Western nations to write more checks to governments of Muslim countries. It’s also demonstrably false. The New York Times reported that “not long after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001…Alan B. Krueger, the Princeton economist, tested the widespread assumption that poverty was a key factor in the making of a terrorist. Mr. Krueger’s analysis of economic figures, polls, and data on suicide bombers and hate groups found no link between economic distress and terrorism.”
CNS News noted in September 2013 that “according to a Rand Corporation report on counterterrorism, prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense in 2009, ‘Terrorists are not particularly impoverished, uneducated, or afflicted by mental disease. Demographically, their most important characteristic is normalcy (within their environment). Terrorist leaders actually tend to come from relatively privileged backgrounds.’ One of the authors of the RAND report, Darcy Noricks, also found that according to a number of academic studies, ‘Terrorists turn out to be more rather than less educated than the general population.’”
Yet the analysis that poverty causes terrorism has been applied and reapplied and reapplied again.
“PhD student found guilty of building a terror kamikaze drone to carry a bomb for IS faces jail,” by George Odling and Duncan Gardham, Daily Mail, September 28, 2023:
A PhD engineering student is facing prison after being convicted of building a kamikaze drone for the Islamic State terror group.
Mohamad Al-Bared, 26, whose parents are both doctors, copied the design of a Tomahawk missile to build the device, which was capable of delivering a bomb or chemical weapon over a distance of five miles. The mechanical engineering graduate made the wings on a 3D printer and sent weekly updates to IS so his designs could be replicated.
The terror group was so impressed by the student’s work that it shared one of his videos in a propaganda film on the encrypted messaging app Telegram.
Police who raided Al-Bared’s family home in Coventry in January found the drone in his bedroom along with a completed application form for IS membership, in which he had stated he had a master’s degree in electronic engineering.
He was yesterday found guilty of preparing acts of terrorism by researching and developing an unmanned aerial vehicle, sharing technical design details and registering a UK company as false cover for travel abroad to join Islamic State….
Al-Bared, who has a mechanical engineering degree from Coventry University, a master’s from Warwick University and was studying for a PhD at Birmingham University, told his IS contacts in January that he wanted to leave Britain and join them….
The student’s parents were both in court as the unanimous guilty verdict was returned. Al-Bared’s mother broke down in tears and had to be helped from the courtroom….
Al-Bared’s parents were born in Syria but moved to study medicine in Romania, where they had their three children and remained for 20 years. The family settled in Britain in 2014….
Walter Sieruk says
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The stealth jihad-minded Muslims who live in the different Western nation and have infiltrated by many insidious ways the countries of the West have the Islamic agenda of subverting government for Islam and destroying non-Islamic constitutions of the many Western countries . The scheming stealth jihadist /Muslim want to destroy Western non-Islamic constitutions and replace Western laws with Sharia law . To achieve this Muslim goal they must first destroy the constitutions of the West.
The non- stealth jihadists who are the violent jihadists , as those of ISIS, are strong in destroying ideas and things are what many jihadist /Muslims do best. As revealed in this following essay.
The Muslims who make up the jihadists of that heinously murderous and destructive jihad entity ,ISIS ,with all their awful violence are best at one things which creating inflecting death on humans and disaster and destruction.
The ISIS /jihadists never create or make anything of value, or that is good and worthwhile . They are only destructive and not ever constructive. The jihadists of ISIS destroy people, buildings , both religious and non-religious building , They destroy other kinds of architecture , both ancient and modern architecture, They destroy music, they destroy literature and manuscripts .Those jihadists of ISIS with their jihad for Islam only destroy.
As for the last two items of value on this above list which the ISIS/ Muslim destroy. Which are literature and manuscripts this is an example of who history can repeats itself. In this case with ISIS and Muslims the jihad for their religion.
For in ancient history and for years after the close of ancient history there was the grand and wonderful Library of Alexandria in Egypt which building that contained much literature and many manuscripts of great value and worth . Then in the year AD 642 came the zeal- filled Muslim warriors who then destroyed building that was that library and all the valuable manuscripts and literature contained in the building. As was in those destructive jihad-minded Muslims in the year 642.who destroyed it all . So it is with the jihad –minded Muslims of ISIS in the twenty -first century .They just destroy.
To become more clear regarding the history of warrior /jihadist Muslims with their closed Islamic minded and which now is reflected by the destructive actions of the warrior/ jihadists of ISIS is the following .
“The Library of Alexandria was he center of intellectual life in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, holding scrolls of all Greek literature and thought, joined by the Latin works once the Romans started writing anything worth reading. In AD 642 shortly after the founding of Islam ,a Muslim army captured Alexandria , and their leader said “If those book are in agreement with Koran, we have no need of them: and if those are opposed to the Koran , destroy them.” [1]
[1] The Greeks by Diane Harris Cline , pages 212,213.
tim gallagher says
So this evil piece of crap obviously has a bright mind when it comes to technology, but he wants to support the knuckle dragging vermin from the islamic state, so he clearly has the mentality of a knuckle dragging , totally barbaric creature. That’s islam for you. Its aim is to drag humanity back to living the primitive lifestyle of 7th century Arabs, the Muslims’ good old days from their point of view, so they can imitate Muhammad’s evil lifestyle. What an evil, barbaric dream the Muslim dream is.
maria says
execute him
tim gallagher says
That would improve the human race, maria. Anybody who sees something worth supporting in the knuckle draggers from the islamic state is a menace to civilised human life and has nothing good to offer humanity, that’s for sure..
FYI says
A PhD student and yet his islamic mind cannot understand the problem of taking instructions from a book whose author allah is not even omniscient.
How STEM academic standards seem to have dropped; i studied Electronics and Electrical Engineering.It is no big deal today to be a Ph D student{i’m sorry but it is true!}
allah didn’t give his followers much intelligence:i simply laugh at this PhD student.
An islamic idiot with a PhD is just an idiot with a PhD
James Lincoln says
FYI,
Studying electronic engineering takes some very significant brain power!
To your point, the standards must have dropped since you were in the program.
FYI says
The Unabomber,Ted Kacyznski had a PhD in Mathematics and was certainly gifted in his field but he chose to do evil and killed 3 innocent people and injured many others .He killed himself in prison apparently.
.So i have no sympathy for any ‘Evil Genius’.
somehistory says
Kacyznski had book intelligence, but his brain was sick. He used his “gifts” for evil and not for good…and one reason for that was his wrong thinking on other issues, mainly about himself and how he was seen/treated by other people with whom he came into contact.
He wouldn’t have lasted much longer…he was neglected by prison staff, but also had cancer.
I seriously doubt that anyone mourns him.
As for “evil genius”…satan the devil is one of those. That demon started it all.
James Lincoln says
100% agree, FYI.
FYI says
It is like in those movies when the evil genius is in jail and doesn’t get that the smart thing to do would have been to either stay OUT of Jail or be cunning enough to avoid it using clever legal arguments.. or maybe NOT choose to do evil in the first space.
Truly evil folk-like many of our corrupt politicians-are cunning enough to do that when of course they should be thrown in jail for their treasonous criminality.
This islamic fanatic chose an evil path for himself and now he’s going to Jail and has traumatized his parents.
You can have all the education you want in this world but you ALSO need Wisdom and common sense.
Hudders. says
Surprise surprise..another one.
Even if these satanic memebers of the death cult fail in planned murderous attacks;
the planned ‘psychological jihad’ takes another step forward.
As according to the terrible teachings from their scriptures of utter evil, or as guided by pernicious pulpit prophets, in those unholy houses of hell where they worship war; any degree of pressure applied is a degree of submission success.
Thank God that the police & security services work day in/out to stop these despicable desciples of doom dealing destruction on the sweet streets of the UK.
Imagine the consequences if they were permitted to act out their demonic daydreams?
That’s why those brave folks who work tirelessly to protect, must be covered with our daily prayers.
Imagine how many more like this medevial merchant of mayhem, seek to manifest drone plots now, as we read this?
For it is in their nefarious nature;
-the very essence of islam.
Namely hate, war, destruction; doom & death.
Absolute total evil indeed.
VictorMc says
As a long-term follower of your site and many many others all saying the same thing.
It remains beyond me why you ALL give daily oxygen to these Muslim lunatics. Don’t you realise you are all simply giving them the oxygen of publicity to their lunatic causes/s
Just support Israel totally with their 20% Muslim population. The ones I have spoken to over the years would not want to live anywhere else. Yes, you all delight in reporting the Muslim lunatics when they create some awful criminal act/s. WHY bother just support Israel totally they know how to deal with them.
somehistory says
Israel isn’t “dealing with them” everywhere. Furthermore, they still carry out murderous attacks in Israel against non-mozlum citizens there.
And to not “report” what they do, helps them in their pretense of being “peaceful” and just wanting to be “welcomed.”
mozlums whine and complain about being “hated” and the fake “phobia” thing. To not report on their evil actions, would lead some….many perhaps….to believe their lying propaganda.
And their lies would be published, whatever the case. That would only be half of the story if no one reported on the fact that they lie and that terrorism comes first and reactions to terrorism come after the murders, rapes, etc.
Westman says
Another Osama Bin Laden wannabe. Islam is the mother of bad ideas, however, the West’s warring in Islamic nations only makes more of these jihadis. We have yet to see the next Bin Laden, perhaps a brilliant war orphan, a privileged son, or a natural leader. There are Muslims fighting for Russia in Ukraine at this very moment – new jihadis in training.
George says
IS has a membership application? Who knew?