| Hephaestos said: and on suicide bombers being educated.... are you gyus refering to the doctor that tried to blow up an airport? putting fire to his car with a bomb, only to have the bomb not explode and him being badly burnt? Funny how the smart people mess up so bad isn't it? It's not because you're educated that you're smart, it helps, but not that much. |
It isn't relevant that they're smart or not. The lecture I linked to asserted simply that most of the male suicide hijackers/bombers were educated and had no major psychological issues, infact they were training one guy who they didn't end up using because he was unstable.
It was making the point that many suicide bombers end up like that because of the cognative dissonance, a mutation of retaliation bargaining by religion, the pull of paradise etc.
It was simply going against the conventional wisdom that they're all uneducated and ignorant etc. I believe the lecture was mainly talking about the 911 terrorists. I'd have to watch it again. I'm unclear of the details at this moment.
EDIT, yes it does talk about the 911 terrorists aswell, who were also mainly educated according to the lecture.
Anyway it was a side point and an interesting lecture. Doesn't really matter in the context of the thread.
