It turns out that the murderers who killed so many innocents in Sri Lanka recently were members of the socio-economic elite in Bangladesh. They had access to heaps of money. They had the time to study overseas at various universities. They had the opportunity and resources to indulge themselves in delusions and visions of Islamic apocalyptic grandeur.
This is a pattern we have seen before. The murderers who piloted airliners into the Twin Towers were part of a well-educated elite. They had the money and time to speculate over Islamic extremist doctrines. Osama bin Laden, of course, came from a wealthy family in Saudi Arabia. These patterns contradict the Left's view in the West which is that Islamic terror acts exist because people are poor.
Former President Obama wheeled out this trope once again when commenting upon the Bangladesh terrorist murders. He was quickly corrected of his prejudiced errors.
Most of the jihadis who targeted Christians in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday with a wave of suicide bombings that left hundreds dead and wounded at churches and high-end hotels are “well-educated people” from affluent families, the South Asian island nation’s deputy defense minister revealed on Wednesday.The picture emerges that many of the perpetrators were lazy and self-indulged, apparently bearing a sense of entitled importance.
Deputy Defence Minister Ruwan Wijewardene’s comments contradicted assertions by former U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration that a lack of economic opportunities is a top driver of Islamic terrorism. . . . In March 2016, AP reported that ISIS was seeking to recruit well-educated individuals with sophisticated skills in Pakistan, noting that the group was targeting university students, doctors, lawyers, journalists, and businessmen and using educated women for its fundraising operations. [Edwin Mora, Breitbart]
