Islamist Terror Group Recruits Members With $50 And A Cell Phone, Study Finds

[BlueStateSaint]

Ain't this interesting.

Islamist Terror Group Recruits Members With $50 And A Cell Phone, Study Finds

The Huffington Post
Nick Robins-Early

3 hrs ago

The typical terrorist in Somalia was recruited when he was young, poor and afraid. In some cases, he just wanted $50 and a cell phone.

These are the findings of a new study published this week by the Institute for Security Studies, examining how the Somali extremist group al-Shabab recruits new members. Through a series of interviews with 88 former recruits, researchers Anneli Botha and Mahdi Abdile have created a multifaceted profile of the type of person who is prone to join Somalia's largest terror organization.

The role of age is a striking feature of the study. Ninety-one percent of those interviewed became radicalized before the age of 30, which is apt considering al-Shabab means "the youth" in Arabic. The interviewees also tended to come from impoverished backgrounds, and to join al-Shabab as a career rather than simply out of support for the group's cause. In almost all cases, recruits grew up in something of an ideological vacuum, with little to no education and no exposure to belief systems other than Islam.

One member who joined the organization as a teenager told the researchers: "When you join, they give you a mobile phone and every month you get $50." (Muddy's note--now we know where the idea for the'Obamaphones' came from! )

"This is what pushes a lot of my friends to join," he added.

It's interesting what the two researchers found.  The rest is at:

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/islamist-terror-group-recruits-members-with-dollar50-and-a-cell-phone-study-finds/ar-BB72Dcn

[obumazombie]

There's more than 1 way to use an obamaphone.

[JohnnyReb]

Foodstamps and Obamaphones........is Obama building a terrorist army?