How do explain the 911 highjackers? Most of whom were educated and came from upper class civilized families. Osama bi Laden is a perfect example.
Radical Islam is an intentional religious insurgency spread through a variety of means. The cancer of Radical Islam grows where socio-economic conditions are poor; governments are repressive and unable to provide essential social services, such as providing adequate oversight of their educational system….or have allowed/sanctioned Radical Islamic curricula.
Islamic fundamentalism has given an aim and form to the otherwise aimless and formless resentment and anger of the Muslim masses at the forces that have devalued their traditional values and loyalties and, in the final analysis, robbed them of their beliefs, their aspirations, their dignity, and to an increasing extent even their livelihood. Frustrated by the complete inability to exert any discernible degree of control over their immediate circumstances, frustrated adherents of Radical Islam, goaded by Radical Islamic Clerics, will resort to terrorism as the only avenue to effect religious, social, political, and economic change.
Armed with an ideological foundation, making the leap to Islamic-inspired terrorism requires only a
charismatic leader for direction, continued social pressures to solidify the will, and the means (weapons, money) to conduct terrorist acts.
This is where Osama Bin ladden and so many others come in. The educated and wealthy are as jobless and futureless as the masses underneath them. They are convinced that the greatest life they could live is in service to God. This being said, they motivate the miserable and directionless and use them for their purposes.
And all they have to do is reflect on the life of the Prophet. They do not need the Qu'ran.
