Truth Be Told - Conventional Wisdom Fails

Georgetown University's Christine Fair talks with CNN's Anjali Rao about her studies that failed to link poverty and Islamic extremism.

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The Nation
(June 01, 2011)
67pc want Islamisation of society
http://nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Politics/01...
"As many as 67 per cent people of Pakistan want the government take steps for Islamisation, a clear indication that for whatever reasons they have lost faith in the existing system. According to a survey carried out by Gilani Research Foundation, 31 per cent people want the government take the required steps at once..."

The Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project
(August 13, 2009)
Pakistan: Growing Concerns About Extremism, Continuing Discontent with U.S.
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1312/pakistani-public-opinion
78% favour death for those who leave Islam;
80% favour whippings and cutting off hands for crimes like theft and robbery;
83% favour stoning adulterers.

Poverty and Support for Militant Politics: Evidence from Pakistan
C. Christine Fair et al.
(May 02, 2011)
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1829264

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[IslamistTube2]

They are correct, but what they missed the most is the education level, lower the education level, higher the chances of being spun up in the Islamic Ismanist

[ambardarlane]

Christine in this interview is 100% right!

Aid to Pakistan is an Islamic bussiness, Lashkeri Tobia are well educated because they studied in Indian Kashmir.

[htgajjar]

Islam is Terrorism as simple as that.

[ponsrox]

"Here", we have education and wealth and there are no suicide bombers "here". But "there" they must be uneducated and poor, that's why they strap C4 on to their chests and walks into the market and explodes them. You know, because they dont have anything else to do, because they are poor! Uneducated! Thank god our politicians and policy makers are so clever. Oh BTW, sarcasm.

[Wrath0fKhan]

@SpellboundSolution

Are you in the need of sexual realignment or something? I can help...

[SpellboundSolution]

@Wrath0fKhan I see sis, you're on the side of talking meaningless bollocks.

[Wrath0fKhan]

@SpellboundSolution

"youve lost me now"

No... You are lost, bro. ;-)

"which side are you on exactly"

On the side of "modernity" of course.

[SpellboundSolution]

@Wrath0fKhan You've lost me now. Which side are you on exactly?

[Wrath0fKhan]

@SpellboundSolution

"Im sure mot Muslim dont want it"

Im not so sure at all. Example:

The Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project

Pakistani Public Opinion Poll

Released: August 13, 2009

78% favour death for those who leave Islam;

80% favour whippings and cutting off hands for crimes like theft and robbery;

83% favour stoning adulterers.

[SpellboundSolution]

@Wrath0fKhan To all those who don't want to live under a worldwide Islamic caliphate, the one that God told Mohamed to establish. Since God missed Australasia and America while looking at his globe (he has bad eye sight) there is nothing about those continents in the Koran, but those most sincere to the religion of Islam are seeking to create that caliphate. I'm sure most Muslims don't want it, but their religion does.

[Wrath0fKhan]

@SpellboundSolution

"the greater threat they are"

Greater threat for whom? For the better educated "West"? Again, vast majority of perpetrators and victims are poor Muslims (obliterated by poor Muslims).

Maybe you believe that we here in the "West" are by definition "high profile targets". Since Id consider myself an "elitist exceptionalist", "cultural non-relativist", Id agree with such a proposition.

[Wrath0fKhan]

@SpellboundSolution

"the point is that wealth has nothing to do with it"

Without wealth you cant afford studying at prestigious "western universities", right? Hence certain wealth component is there, br0, whether you like it or not.

"islamic instruction"

Something like that, indeed. Yet thats not the point of contention here.