re: #310 A Mom Anon

yes Bin Laden was born into wealth, but the kids he and his buddies got/get to strap bombs to themselves were not. For Bin Laden it was about power and control, for the less fortunate people who followed him, their poverty and lack of hope for a better future made them far easier targets for his extremism.

No, it’s not poverty. Plenty of studies have shown it’s not a significant factor at all. Most of the studies are as the result of examination of the Suicide Terrorism Database in Flinders University in Australia. See as an example of the findings Life as a Weapon: Making Sense of Suicide Bombings.