re: Women and the hijab

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Osama bin laden is an EXCELLENT example of how a member of the aristocracy can get poor people to do their bidding....if it weren't for massive poverty in the middle east he wouldn't have had an army...why did he have to travel to Afghanistan and couldn't have gotten enough folks to form an army in Saudi Arabia??? because poverty isn't as great....

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If all you needed to create an army of terrorists was an impoverished population then someone would have gone to India and raised an army by now.

They have 240 million people living in poverty. That's more people in poverty than populations of Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen and Afghanistan COMBINED.

Instead recruiting the poors in India, the terrorists recruit in the country next to India, Pakistan. A country with similar poverty rates, same colonial background, but one major cultural difference.