Children from rich Muslim families become Jihad fighters. The phenomenon was born in Europe and came to America, wrote Maurizio Molinari in his article in La Stampa. Nigerian kamikaze Umar Farooq Abdulmutallab was born in a happy, rich family, forcing American experts on to terrorism rethink how to fight the radicalization of the Muslim middle class. What happened in Detroit refuted the myth that the terrorists are children from poor families.
The author of the book "Army of al-Qaeda" Jonathan Schanzer wrote: "We know that Bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri, came from wealthy families from Saudi Arabia and Egypt. The Islamic terrorists who attacked London in 2005 as well as those that were arrested in recent years in the United States, no doubt were not poor or unemployed".
According to another expert, Raquel Ehrenfilda relationship between religious radicalization and economic well-being is born as a result of the rebellion of young people against the life styles of their families. Young people are vulnerable to calls for radicalizm which often coming from the mosques. The ideology of Al-Qaeda is pushing these young people to revolt against everything that surrounds them just to use them in a jihad against the West and America, ", this scientist says.
In US we're convinced that the radicalization of the Muslim middle class is a European phenomenon, related to the difficulties of integration Muslim people into European society. But it has become clear now that this phenomenon has spread to the United States. There were lots of examples in a recent years.
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