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РУБСРИВКЕАТ
(photo: fee.org)
The secular leftist terrorist groups mists consider that the ideological mo-
from the 70s and 80s of the 20th cen- tives are naïve or a small part of the
tury had mostly negative attitude to- big picture.
wards the rich countries because in
their opinion they were leading an un- Walter Enders and Gary A. Hoover,
acceptable external politics (a war with professors from the universities in
Vietnam, support of the Israeli people Alabama and in Texas, in American
in the fight against the Palestinians) or, Economic Review in 2012 presented
if it was a matter of anarchists or com- the hypothesis that the poverty level
munists, they were specialized in ter- strongly affect terrorism in the do-
rorism in their own countries and with micile country, and it has a small but
the fall of the Berlin Wall most of them important impact on international
disappeared or were permanently sup- terrorism. Hence, for example, the So-
pressed. malis who live in the United States, of
which 82% live on the edge or above the
Today numerous right-wing com- poverty level, according to the census
mentators consider that the violent of 2008, represent the most numerous
Islam is not a reaction to poverty, nei- group of American citizens who leave
ther to the western oriented politics of in order to fight with the groups of Ji-
the Middle East, rather an ideological hadists. According to the data of New
challenge of the Western civilization York Times, the citizens of Minnesota,
and the principles which are based on many of which are Somalis who join Al-
the free press and the freedom of re- Shabaab, represent the largest group
ligion. On the other hand, the econo- of American citizens who join the ex-
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