Because we live in a simple world of right and wrong where everything is in black and white...

Trading papers, I will see yours and offer:
"This paper also suggests that the Gini Index of economic inequality may also have a significant correlation with terrorist risk. The results overall imply that exclusion from the economy can be a motivator for terrorism just as exclusion from politics can be, regardless of the overall wealth of a country."
http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/...

I will even go on to say that it is the political control over the economy (whether the military control of Egypt or Pakistan, or the royal control of Saudi nations) that reduces the economic opportunities of the lower and middle classes, as well as the political ambitions of the upper classes, which encourages them to join groups like ISIS or AQ

"and unsurprisingly, a lot of terrorists aren't devoutly religious"

I think that it may be a similar phenomenon to Born Again Christians in America, where people are deeply indoctrinated when they are young, put aside their beliefs for lives of debauchery in their young adult years, then fall back to their original beliefs (or influence of religious leaders who represent those beliefs) in later years or when facing some emotional hardship

I agree on both flavors, and I suggest that they are rooted in the same cause, which is an attempt to prevent internal revolution due to lack of opportunity

Even bin laden was relegated to some son-of-the-boss position if he had toed the line, so he traded that away for leading his own quasi-government

By design, this was outside the borders of his birth and in no way threatened the people who actually limited his ambitions at home

Hey,
I would argue that Atta, and many of the well educated 'forefathers' of this movement were facing their own glass ceilings, and would never reach the levels of social success in their own countries (as compared to what they could expect in the western countries they were educated in) due to the members of the royal families that got all of the sweet positions

One solution to their problem would be to mount an internal revolution

To prevent this they were intentionally radicalized by royally-supported Wahhabis to direct their angry energies outwards against the same western influences that had educated them to expect more than their current lot in life

At least that is my speculation

Doctors? Hardly

Mohammad Sidique Khan: aged 30, worked as 'learning mentor' in a primary school for immigrant children

Shehzad Tanweer: aged 22, worked part time at his father's fish and chips shop

Germaine Lindsay: aged 19, worked part-time as a carpet fitter and supplemented his income by selling covers for mobile phones at a local market

Hasib Hussain: aged 18, a recently graduated student who was living with in-laws and had a recent arrest for shoplifting

They all have a glass ceiling, that is to say that they lack the room to grow their ambitions and are being sent out to find it

In the case of the notable FEW that you bring up, they were relegated to becoming fat lapdogs, servants of the royal family who could never rise above their 'place'. These were people with ambition who could have taken places of political or corporate leadership in a country that did not give all of those away to the royal family.

Of course leaders need foot soldiers and those come from the ranks of the 20-30 somethings who do not even get the lapdog jobs, they sit at home and take in a huge amount of propaganda about jihad and fighting the western corrupter. There are no jobs for them to start their own families so the become cannon fodder for the wars that the Wahhabis have created for them. These are the people applying in droves with hopes of gaining an income and family, or an honorable death that their families could give value to

It is the intent to keep pressure off of the ensconced leadership by diverting this 'energy' into jihad instead of a long-delayed internal revolution to provide equal opportunities to their people

These 'applicants' would probably never consider the path to jihad if they had a decent job and the ability to earn a living to raise a family

The unemployment rates are 27% with even higher rates for people in their twenties
The application takes advantage of their desires to have a 'real' job and twists it into continuing strife that does nothing to improve their economic conditions

And give legitimacy to their adopted son, little Patrick Gerald (Fitz) Fitzgerald-Fitzpatrick

Yeah, just like that liberal, slacker, commie loving Eisenhower
"Eisenhower teed off for a full round of golf about eight hundred times in his 8 years as president. Almost every Wednesday and Saturday afternoon he played three-hour, eighteen-hole rounds at Burning Tree, an all-male club in the Maryland suburbs. On twenty-three trips to Georgia, he played roughly 200 times at Augusta National,where friends built him, on the 1oth hole, a spacious three story house know initially as Mamie's Cabin, Then more commonly as the Eisenhower Cabin."
Pg 43
"Ike's Bluff" by Evan Thomas

"Do you even lift?"

Look Bro, you may want to take some time listening, watching, or even reading these two sources before claiming that they got nothing to do with 'Merica. It may do your outlook a world of good

My basic reaction to Win 3.0 was... "This is going to really eff up the memory management for my AutoCAD install", and it did, so I pretty much avoided Windows until I was forced to install it to support the email tools that I had to use for work.

At that point all 'real' work went over to my Unix workstation. The one thing that it did for me was force me to step away from AutoCAD and start using ArcINFO for everything that I did

Windows NT got some positive attention from me because I could install and run Oracle database and developer tools on it to support off-hour investigation of new software

I think that 'Association Fallacy' would be closer than Ad Hominem

However, I do not think that it is a fallacy to doubt the credibility of any 'news' source that is part of the News Corp family

News Corp has demonstrated a decided bent in favor of the American right wing of the political spectrum, and it would be wise for anybody to take that into consideration when weighing the value of 'news' generated by any member of the New Corp family

The gop placed majority in the SCOTUS decided it
If you voted for the gop, or failed to vote against it, then YOU made the decision

I agree with laziness as being a problem, but I would say that it appears as people being too lazy to get their buts to the polls.

There is a large group of people who do not even bother to vote, with the 2014 election being an example of the lowest voter turnout for America in the past 70 years.
There is a smaller group people who believe the fud they are served up and are motivated to vote because of it.

As a result we saw huge wins for the gop in 2014, which is the largest user of fear driven propaganda to get their base to he polls

If the larger group remains uninvolved the smaller, easily propagandized group (and the propagandists that motivate them) will determine public policy and this country will promote policies that will end up hurting the entire planet