Pipes
Take Egypt as a test case. In a 1980 study, the Egyptian social scientist Saad Eddin Ibrahim interviewed Islamists in Egyptian jails and found that the typical member is "young (early twenties), of rural or small-town background, from the middle or lower middle class, with high achievement and motivation, upwardly mobile, with science or engineering education, and from a normally cohesive family." In other words, Ibrahim concluded, these young men were "significantly above the average in their generation"; they were "ideal or model young Egyptians." In a subsequent study, he found that out of 34 members of the violent group At-Takfir w'al-Hijra, fully 21 had fathers in the civil service, nearly all of them middle-ranking. More recently, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service found that the leadership of the militant Islamic group Al-Jihad "is largely university educated with middle-class backgrounds." These are not the children of poverty or despair.
But alas, we now have the ultimate...
This is from the BBC.
The chances of anti-social behaviour among boys who are maltreated as they grow up may be determined by their genetic make-up, research suggests.
Researchers from King's College in London have found that boys who have a particular version of a gene are much more likely to go off the rails if they suffer maltreatment when young.
The discovery raises the possibility of developing drugs to combat crime, the scientists believe.
No more wars, we'll just dispatch Home Health.
Don't forget the campfire group sings and hugs as the camel chips burn ever so brightly..
Hmmmmmm... I wonder which drug company sponsored the research.
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