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2011-11-07 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Fred 2011-11-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan

#1 Shuddup. It is never about poverty. Only about power.

Powers and principalities

Posted by newc 2011-11-07 01:39|| 2011-11-07 01:39|| Front Page Top

#2 The poverty-stricken make up the cannon fodder, but they're not the ones creating the ideology and they're not the ones buying the weaponry.

Posted by Fred 2011-11-07 09:26|| 2011-11-07 09:26|| Front Page Top

#3 I feel that all these experts miss something basic about Muslim societies. In the West, at least until recently---look at the Clintons, wealth brought status. In Dar, status brings wealth. All these jacket wallahs are motivated by a desire to bring status to their families. Probably miss it due to inability to admit---even to themselves, that Muslims are eusocial rather than social.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-11-07 14:20|| 2011-11-07 14:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Less about poverty than ignorance. Many of the poor are uneducated. Many of the wealthy are badly educated. Same problem from both ends of the economic spectrum.

Posted by rjschwarz 2011-11-07 14:38|| 2011-11-07 14:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Low reciprocation cultures make little wealth and the violence need to become rich (in such a poor quality culture) breeds more violence.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2011-11-07 17:50|| 2011-11-07 17:50|| Front Page Top

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