This may be a threadjack, but I think it is on topic.
EDUCATION LEVEL.
My degree is in Sociology, yes that is why I run a kitchen. LOL
Anyway, what I am getting at is this. Many of the schools in the middle east, are sponsered, or run by, the different religous groups. Most of these schools, indoctrinate their students with a mixture of their religous views, along with some basic education. But, they never teach ANYTHING, that conflicts with those views. It has been my experience, that it is mainly the uneducated, or undereducated, that are easily indoctrinated, into the more fundamentalists, radical religions, see radical muslums, or closer to home, the snakehandling christians here at home. Here, in the Ozarks, of NW arkansas, it is perfectly illustrated, by a comment I heard the otherday. I was being solicited to go to a revival, at the local 7th day adventist church. I shop at there co-op for many of my foods, so I see them quite often. I explained that I worked on the weekends, and couldn't make it, which was on the verge of Blasphemy, to them, since I worked on the Sabbath, Saturday for them. The woman told me that the preacher taught from the King James version of the Bible, so it was the true WORD OF GOD, unlike the other translations. I didn't want to create a stir, so I didn't point out to her that King JAmes, was the final editor, of that version, and could change the things he wanted to, and did. Why, because this is the only place to get organically grown foods, within a 60 mile radius, and it is less than a city block from my home.
Anyway, enough rambling.
Education can stop the radical religous groups from being able to recruit for their warriors, not the planners, but the people who are willing to commit the suicidal attacks, so they can be on the right side with their GOD. It is not the fault of the religion, which both, judism, and the muslum religion are beautiful in their raw form. But what man has interperated the religions to be saying, and the way men have changed the interpretations to justify their personal wants.
Thats enough of my drivel.
Later
Dave (A.K.A. Homebrew)