Explosions heard at Brussels airport [AP]

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GraceSofia said:
And yet some people still blame terrorism on poverty. :rolleyes:
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“Blessed are the poor” is a startling truth, and counter-intuitive.
Poverty is not the source of the world’s evils nevertheless, because the poor are not the ones behind the evils of the world.
When it comes to the Holy Spirit, it really is the poor who are richer than the richest.
It is invariably the upper and middle classes who are behind the revolutions, the wars, and the terrors, and even the crimes of this world.

Those who are rich in the Spirit are the poor, and those rich in the spirit are less likely to engage in evil, not more.

Materialist believe the exact opposite of that, even when the facts state otherwise.
 
The Western media is big on the stereotype of the poorly educated, unemployed or underemployed, bitter young man who’s had brushes with the law, who embraces Jihad, and that we can stop him from this path though education.
 
Darryl1958 said:
Brussels will be a distant memory two weeks hence as well.

Jihadi terrorists have traditionally been a product of the middle upper class of Muslim society, often those who can afford to send their children away to Western schools to receive their education.
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It would be more accurate to say that the leadership of Jihadi terrorism have been such a product.
 
GraceSofia said:
And yet some people still blame terrorism on poverty. :rolleyes:
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And they are partly right. Even if the leadership and visionaries of Jihadism are from affluent, well-educated backgrounds, the rank and file, and, even more importantly, the surrounding social milieu that gives terrorism its tacit support, are the results of the disillusionment of the largely impoverished, unemployed or underemployed populations in the Arab countries. Read the background given by the 9-11 Commission for the 2001 attacks.
 
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