Quote Originally Posted by Daniel
Terrorism is irrational? Wow! There's a revelation.

Rani, these organisations don't go out recruiting the most intelligent and mentally sound people. After all what intelligent and mentally sound person goes and blows themself up?

Getting people who are mentally unwell to do the dirty work.... like THAT'S never happened before.
Ruling out every terrorist out there as insane is the easy way out. Furthermore, it's just not true. These are people just like you and me, educated to believe what they believe in. A lot of suicide terrorists had degrees (the first one who springs to mind is Mohamed Atta who had a masters if I'm not mistaken). You can't just say they're all dumb crazy zombies, they simply aren't. Many of them live regular lives until they get depressed and turn to religion. While Islam as a religion isn't violent as far as I know, it seems to have large factions which interpret the Quran in ways which call for violent actions against 'infidels' such as you and me.