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Old 02-06-2008, 08:13 AM   #32
Undertoad
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Sageman and tw work this issue the same way: if something doesn't fit your personal narrative, pound away at it until it does fit. A big enough mental hammer can put any square peg into a round hole.

In fact the majority of modern Jihadis are more well-off and more highly educated than their average non-jihadi brethren. The jihadis in Britain are often medical students, for example.

One wonders, too, how Tim McVeigh fits into the narrative. Hmm, not at all. Or how the "answer" in Lebanon isn't preventing the jihadis from assassinating everyone in the "incompetent government" because the "incompetent government" is trying to use its army to eject them.

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There is no reason to believe these women were retarded.
And if you don't have a big enough hammer to pound your square peg, just pretend the peg is round. Problem solved, narrative proudly upheld.
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