Sure. Look at this country and how many are in support of the bad 
things we are doing. All it takes is one bad leader.

But also I would guess that this study's range of accuracy is limited 
to the war torn and poverty stricken regions of the middle east and 
not, for example, mosque attending Muslim's here in Ann Arbor. It could 
be an aspect of the sense of community provided by attending religious 
ceremonies more than the religion itself... as it makes more sense to 
give your life for something bigger if you feel like you're a part of 
and care about that community, more than if you are home alone watching 
television and don't care about your neighbors anyway. When your 
community is in a desperate situation, it drives you to desperate 
measures in support, whatever the basis of that community. Though of 
course yes, a few bad community leaders misinterpreting the holy book, 
certainly can help make things worse.

Which is why the real solution to terrorist bombing is McDonalds, cold 
beer, and remote control. :-)

Dave



On Jun 23, 2005, at 11:59 AM, Kevin Lochner wrote:

> how many pro-bombing mullah's would it really take to effect a positive
> correlation?
>
> - kevin
>
>
> "It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."
> -- G.W. Bush, --Reuters, May 5, 2000 (Thanks to Allison Fansler.)
>
>
> On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Erica O'Connor wrote:
>
>> Given that this study is even ligitimate, sounds like
>> it found something not all that surprising, namely,
>> sitting around the house being devout isn't as
>> inspiring to a would-be-suicide-terrorist-supporter as
>> going to a big religious gathering of like-minded
>> individuals every day.
>> -Erica
>> Quote included to to please Daniel anyway:
>> "Man will not be free until the last king is strangled
>> with the entrails of the last priest."
>> -by I forget who, Diderot?
>>
>>
>> --- Daniel Reeves   wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not thinking about much else but thesis for next
>>> several weeks but
>>> this just struck me as amusing.  My (cynical) take
>>> is that a study linked
>>> religiosity to terrorism and then they decided that
>>> wasn't so PC so they
>>> found some obscure religiosity metric that they
>>> failed to correlate with
>>> terrorism and used that as the headline to make it
>>> sound like they found
>>> the opposite of what they really found.  Or more
>>> likely the whole study's
>>> just BS.  Ok, I'm going back in my hole now.
>>>
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>>>  
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>>>
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>>>
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>>>
>>> Personal devotion to Islam is unrelated to support
>>> for suicide bombing
>>> among Palestinian Muslims, according to a study at
>>> the Institute for
>>> Social Research. But the more often Muslims attended
>>> mosques, the more
>>> likely they were to support suicide terrorism.
>>> (Islamic text image, from
>>> U-M Museum of Art.)
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
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