Extremismus als Nebenprodukt des Informationszeitalters? ✼

Neal Gabler:

We don’t usually think of extremism as a byproduct of the information age. Most analyses of the subject focus on social or psychological factors. We are told, for example, that Islamic radicals are reacting to poverty, to lack of education, to political suppression, to a sense of cultural marginalization by the West, or to religious leaders, and that their eruption is a way of redressing their perceived grievances. The problem with this analysis is that many of the radicals, most obviously Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman Al-Zawahiri, were wealthy and well-educated.

Via Valdis Krebs.