Western Society & Home-grown Terrorists.

[48Highlander]

If you look at you average "anti-poverty activist" or "anti-war" protestor, or any of the save-the-blue-peckered-sea-worm types, who are they?  The majority based on my entirely non-scientific analysis seem to between the ages of 16 and 26, and come from middle-class or well-off families.  The more militant ones especially are more likely to have come from a fairly prosperous home.  So there's something they deffinitely have in common with your average suicide bomber;  they're angst-ridden spoiled rich kids looking for a cause to fight for and someone to lash out against.  The main difference is that North American organizations and the culture in general do not advocate suicide bombings, so that our "spoiled rich kids" stick to marching around, being a nuisance, picking fights with cops, and breaking store windows.  The Muslim version grow up being told that blowing yourself up in order to kill infidels will make you a hero.  If Canadian schools and churches taught children that blowing yourself up for a cause is honourable and heroic, we'd be seing the same sort of behaviour here.