this ideology is "fed a lot of times by, you know, political repression, by economic, you know, disenfranchisement, by, you know, lack of education and ignorance, so there—there are a number of phenomena right now that I think are fueling the fires of, you know, this ideology."He must be unaware
of the Rand Corporation report on counterterrorism, prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense in 2009? It found that "Terrorists are not particularly impoverished, uneducated, or afflicted by mental disease. Demographically, their most important characteristic is normalcy (within their environment). Terrorist leaders actually tend to come from relatively privileged backgrounds."
CIA Director John Brennan: Jihad a Product of Injustices, Economics, and Ignorance
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