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In the course of heated exchange between different opinions, people may tend to spew unecessary insults. We are all human and make such mistakes, but , please, let us refrain from personal insults and discuss in civility. Thank You. And let us get back to the subject. :cheers:

Bro, Dont resort to such comments. To do so is beneath you. I've just started to read from where I last stopped last night.

Awesome, brother. :)

Our government should give legal compensation to the elderly women. This should help aid in reducing their suffering. Besides this tho, the Philippines and Japan are strategic partners ,now. :)

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Agreed, there needs to be a balance of hard science with social science.

Loyal Japanese car owners , bro! LOVE IT! :)

Great job in expressing your points, my friend. I'm calling it a night , too. Time to do laundry , and plus i have a class to teach tomorrow at 9 am. Good night, buddy. Good night also to @LeveragedBuyout , will continue this tomorrow. God Bless all of us..!

You make a solid point, my friend. Uighyurs make up less than 0.1% of China's population, and Muslims make up less than 0.1% of Japan's population. Why is it that there are terrorist activity in Xinjiang , China and it is practically non-existent in Japan?

Of course they can, just as how most Hindus , Sikhs live in peace in Japan. We also have a thriving Hindu and Sikh population in Japan vis-a-vis the immigration of Indians into Japan that started in 1947. Now, should we negate the Hindu and Sikh relationship with Japanese simply based on the...

Of course our selection criteria will be very helpful in filtering out those who have a history of criminal background, and since immigrants will be selected based on their educational and technical expertise, the less likely they will be more inclined to take up jihad in Japan. Come on man...

Terrorism's effectiveness is dependent on two independent variables: 1) economic and political instability, 2) radical elements who use a twisted version of Islam

This is my premise, and it is very relevant because it identifies the underlying factors that predisposes to terrorism. This is why statisticians have agreed that despite the fuzzy line between poverty and terrorism, there is an indirect link that takes into consideration political and economic...

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Please refer to Table 2 (Economic Demographic Statistics), which expounds on the financial situation of many of these volunteers. In addition, the more politically and economically disadvantaged the population sample, the greater the quality of suicide terrorist attacks (Benmelech et al, 2010)...

Perhaps you were lost in my analysis of the paper (i read the entire paper, and addressed points). The point is that the more economically disadvantaged a society, the more successful terrorist organizations will be in recruiting volunteers; and they find positive correlation in the more...

Yes, as per the theory of social cleavage in its effect on terrorism, the more economically dire the society, this will lead to higher quality of suicide attacks. Many of the propagators of terrorism utilize a millieu of financial support and religious reference to motivate economically...

@LeveragedBuyout opined: I'm afraid it's reached the same conclusions--little correlation between poverty / low education and terrorism. @Nihonjin1051 's response: The paper written by Benmelech, Berrebi, and Klor (2010) was a rather didactic piece of work that tried to analyze the link...

@LeveragedBuyout opined the following: A) The major premise is false, on its face. It does not live peacefully with Islam, because it has virtually no Muslims on which to draw such a conclusion. The West has one to two orders of magnitude more Muslims, both on a numbers and a percent of...

@LeveragedBuyout , Poverty bears indirectly on terrorism by sparking conflict and eroding state capacity, both of which create conditions that can facilitate terrorist activity. Conflict zones not only cost lives, but they can incubate virtually every type of transnational security threat by...