Study Shows Islam a Major Motivation for Terrorists [semi-satire]

Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 5 Feb 2017 | John Semmens

[John Semmens]

A new study—Talking to Foreign Fighters: Insights into the Motivations for Hijrah to Syria and Iraq by University of Waterloo sociologist Lorne L. Dawson, and George Washington University Program on Extremism Fellow Amaranth Amarasingam—found that religion played the biggest role in spurring Muslims to join the jihad against unbelievers.

"In the liberal way of thinking religion can't logically be a significant motivating factor for terrorist violence," Dr. Dawson observed. "The instinct is to look for socio-economic reasons to explain behavior that makes no sense to secularists. But our findings rebut this premise. The individuals who have actually left western societies to join ISIS or al-Qaeda were generally from middle and upper socio-economic strata. The motives they cited for themselves were predominately religious in nature. In their view, proper observance required them to fight for Islam."

A teary-eyed Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) called the findings "unhelpful in our struggle against the Trump Administration. A bunch of deranged Muslims professing religious inspiration as their incentive for attacking us contradicts the meme of Islam as a religion of peace and feeds right into Trump's plan to erect barriers to Muslim entry to America. This study is out of step with all the other studies that have skirted the religious issue to focus on other factors behind the reasons for terrorism. Hopefully, it won't get much attention in the media."

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[Terry Mross]

Semi-satire - meant to be humorous

Fake News - flat out lying with the intent to deceive

[KC Burke]

Good one John.

[Excellence]

I actually found that study and downloaded it. Thanks for the tip.