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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (125307)7/15/2005 11:38:39 AM
From: D. Long   of 793846
 
Note to BBC: poverty and desperation, the Beeb's favorite all-purpose motivations for terror, weren't even on the list of motives

I'm beginning to think the phenomenon may be a sort of Muslim version of middle-class youth angst, like the sort that drives middle American kids to become leftie radicals, or the kind of nihilist malaise that affects many middle American young males (and understood by Scorsese in Taxi Driver). First generation is dirt poor, second generation rises into the middle class, third generation guilt/angst looks back to the "purity" of the proletariat.

There's also the phenomenon of the 3rd generation immigrant. First generation immigrates from mother country, second generation assimilates, third generation looks back and rediscovers its "roots".

I don't think it's a coincidence that so many suicide bombers are middle class kids.

Derek
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