Tunesia Islamist Party Head: Root Cause Is Poverty
Tunis, Tunisia – Rachid Ghannouchi, the head of the Islamist Ennahda Party, has said poverty and unemployment are the most important factors in explaining the appeal of terrorism to young people in his country. The veteran Ennahda leader said on Saturday that the lack of opportunity created fertile platforms for terrorism to grow, pointing out that…
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rg9rts November 14th, 2015 at 13:53
What a oversimplification…Saudi Arabia is one on the richest nations on the planet and it still spawned bin Laden and al -qaeda ….. that wealth could uplift all of the Islamic nations and people …and not the privileged few princes that give all of islam a bad name with the arrogance and rude behavior
fahvel November 14th, 2015 at 14:37
the saudis are disliked as much a haliburton – birds of a feather.
rg9rts November 14th, 2015 at 14:40
So what are they saying at home??? You are there
ExPFCWintergreen November 14th, 2015 at 16:52
Oh come on — that’s like saying because per capita GDP is high in America there’s no grounds for saying that incidents like Ferguson are brought on in large measure by income inequality
rg9rts November 14th, 2015 at 17:06
Run it up the pole and see who salutes
Glen November 15th, 2015 at 00:48
The government of Saudi Arabia is rich. The people, not so much. It is estimated that more than a third of the Saudi Arabian population is living in poverty.
rg9rts November 15th, 2015 at 02:28
Thats why they held Bush’s hand…republicans all the way through…I got mine…you go somewhere else and die ..
fahvel November 14th, 2015 at 14:36
across the boards, he’s right. when an entire region, not just Tunisia, lives in poverty while black gold is sucked from their land, one might think they’d be frustrated and a bit pissed off.