Pundits and politicians of all stripes are quick to offer their wisdom on what fuels Islamist terrorism. It just so happens that much of what they say is wrong. Poverty doesn’t produce terrorists, a solution to the Israel-Palestine problem isn’t a cure-all, and young Muslim men aren’t the most likely to turn to terror. If we are going to fight a war on terror, the least we can do is understand who we are fighting.Read it here.
One of the problems we face in this age of media overkill is the proliferation of bogus "experts" on all matter of things who appear regularly on TV and radio spouting nonsense. This article is a useful corrective to the facile generalizations promulgated by some of the terrorism "experts" you see on cable news channels.
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