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Educated fanatics

A NYTimes report on a Harvard and RAND study on terrorists and education which finds the former have more than you might think of the latter.

"These terrorists are not desperately poor uneducated people from the Middle East. A surprisingly large share of them have college and even graduate degrees. Increasingly, they seem to be from Britain, like the shoe bomber Richard C. Reid and most of the suspects in the London Underground bombings and the liquid explosives plot."

But as Wretchard points out, the article never gets around to answering its own initial question, as to why this might be so. Could be a case of a secularist journalist trying (and failing) to understand the religious. Jihadis, after all, are holy warriors in it for G-d, not hatred per se.