production of terror is not gonna stop soon . these hell bunt animals will take so many innocent lives .
some of them will create and join more violent groups like ISIS[/QUOT
unfortunately more educated join this shit
Islamic State fighters parading through Raqqa in Syria. Photograph: Uncredited/AP
Recruits to Islamic militant groups are likely to be well educated and relatively wealthy, with those aspiring to be suicide bombers among the best off, a study by the World Bank has found.
The research,
based on internal records from the Islamic State group, will reinforce the growing conclusion among specialists that there is no obvious link between poverty or educational levels and radicalisation.
The data, leaked by a disaffected former member of Isis in March, includes basic information on 3,803 foreign recruits from all over the Islamic world and Europe who joined the organisation between early 2013 and late 2014, when the flow of volunteers to the organisation reached a peak.
Those arriving in Isis-controlled territory were vetted and interviewed. Data on country of residence, citizenship, marital status, skills, educational status, previous extremist experience and knowledge of Islamic law was recorded.
The World Bank study found that 69% of recruits reported at least a secondary level education while “15% left school before high school and less than 2% are illiterate”.
The educational level of recruits from north
Africa or the Middle East was significantly greater than that of most of their compatriots, the researchers found.
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“A large fraction have gone on to study at university … Recruits from Africa, south and east Asia and the Middle East are significantly more educated than individuals from their cohort in their region of origin,” the report said.
The recruits were also asked by Isis what role they hoped to play within the group. The proportions of those who wanted to be administrators and “suicide fighters” increased with education, the report’s authors noted.
Neither inequality nor poverty was a driver of involvement in violent extremism, and wealthier countries were more likely to supply foreign recruits for Isis, the report found.
“In countries with a large Muslim population, low degrees of religiosity, low levels of trust in religious institutions and strong government and social control of religion seem to be risk factors of radicalisation,” the report said.
Ongoing research into causes of Islamic militancy has underlined the complexity of motives of recruits and volunteers, as well as the differences between different conflict zones.
Earlier this week, a report into
Boko Haram, the Isis-affiliated Islamist group in Nigeria, found that female members of the brutal organisation were almost as likely as men to be deployed as fighters, challenging a widespread perception that women are mainly used as cooks, sex slaves and suicide bombers.
Isis’s attitude to using women as fighters has evolved, and varies according to local circumstances. Female recruits have not taken up combat roles in areas the group controls in Iraq and Syria but are
increasingly deployed tactically, or at least encouraged to execute terrorist operations in Europe and elsewhere. An alleged terrorist cell
dismantled in Morocco last week included women.
The research by Finn Church Aid, a Finnish NGO, also found that economic factors were important in drawing people in north-east Nigeria into extremist violence.
