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EvilGenie -> RE: Younger jihadists (12/30/2007 11:34:45 AM)
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Casablanca is not what the tourista types would like to believe it is. While it is a large and cosmopolitan city it is also surrounded with slums. The Moroccan economy provides no way to escape these. mine is a professor with 2 high degrees and he makes the equivalent of $350.00 a month there. While all is cheaper there as far as cost of living, he is a government employee and that is his salary after 11 years of teaching.
There are no jobs in Morocco, usually with or without education these days. There is no government sponsored money for higher education or even to buy a student a pen. Morocco has no social programs as it's economy is 20 billion per year. It's a wonder that more of this hasn't gone on than already has though it is still few and far between there.
There are young people who see no hope and no reason to live especially in the large cities containing slums. We aren't talking about anything you could ever see in the US as there is no comparasin. *Some* of these young people, including the 2 20something brothers last year, who would do something like this for the equivalent of a few dollars for their families.
Morocco is by and large an extremely safe place to be, is very open and tolerant and has the same zero tolerance policy on terrorism as the US does including how the citizens feel about it. A side not would be that a Moroccan will tell you that a terrorist is a criminal, not a religious person.
Morocco was the first nation to, in writing, recognise the US as a soverign nation after the US Revolutionary War and we have maintained a friendly and open relationship. There are most likely more homegrown people considering terrorist acts in the US than in Morocco. I will have to check but it was either the Portland Press Herald or USA today who recently had a fascinating story run on the US Morocco relationship.
Skip the typos, I wrote this on my way out the door to go back to work and give medications. No time to proofread! I just love these ''on my day off calls.'' [sm=ugh.gif]
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