URBAN RICH KIDS SWELL RANKS OF ISIS

FROM JOSEPH FARAH'S G2 BULLETIN

LEARNING FROM TERRORISM IN BANGLADESH

'Why have urban rich kids, not poor students, swelled the ranks of ISIS?'

It’s been more than a month since the devastating Islamic terror attack in Gulshan, Bangladesh, in which 17 foreigners and three wealthy Bangladeshis were killed, according to a new report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.

Read moreThe unusual nature of the attackers and the well-to-do standing of the victims have not only Bangladeshis pondering the significance, but the global intelligence community.

Some of those who took part in the killing spree did not fit the pre-conceived mold of Islamic terrorists. They had not attended madrasas. They weren’t poor or refugees. Instead, they were educated in secular institutions. They were rich. They came from cities.

For the rest of this report, and more, go to Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.

In fact, that is not unusual in the world of global terrorism.

It’s the norm, write Taj Hashmi, who teaches Security Studies at Austin Peay State University in the U.S. and is the author of “Global Jihad and America: The Hundred-Year War Beyond Iraq and Afghanistan.”

“In the backdrop of fear, conspiracy theories, and singling out private universities as ‘new madrasas,’ Bangladeshi politicians, analysts, and intellectuals are surprised, secular-educated, rich urban youths, not poor, madrasa-educated students took part in the Gulshan attack,” writes Hashmi. 

“Their surprise reflects their lack of familiarity about Islamist terrorist outfits in the world, overwhelmingly led and manned by upper class, Muslim technocrats. The perception, that only devout mosque-attending Muslims, and madrasa-educated people are Islamist terrorists is balderdash.”

For the rest of this report, and more, go to Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.

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