How might cultural, socioeconomic, or political factors lead someone to become a terrorist?

Answer 1

if you are poor because America exploits the resources in your country unfairly you might have anger toward them

Answer 2

I believe yes cultural and political factors impact the decision to make one a fanatical terrorist. Socioeconomic absolutely not. Millions of people are poor and don't kill innocents. Most of the 9/11 terrorists were middle class and college educated as were the weathermen of the 1960's

Answer 3

We have a plethora of recent factors which have driven entire societies to the brink of terrorism.

Look at the Palestine Map and note how it shrunk over the course of the last 50 years. Study the tribal map of Iraq and note how regional tension resists the present interference with their established religious customs.
Jump over to Taiwan and see how China nibbles at the shores of possibilities there. Indonesia suffers from internal and ethnic troubles.There are at least 26 ongoing territorial conflicts at all times on the planet.
We have not evolved from tribal grounds, we have simply appropriated new areas and imported our customs to impose on the land. The results of mobility on earth are the creation of enmity between the established inhabitants and the "others".

Mexico, USA? California, Texas, English, Spanish? Poor, Affluent; the mixture is rich for political wrangling. Do we still wonder what makes an individual mad enough to resort to violence to resolve these pent up reactions to his or her fragile identity?

Individual psychology defers from mass hysteria in only one respect--- A Timothy McVey ferments in the dark, while a larger group such as guerilla rebels overtly call out to people to resist the perceived invaders. Both can inflict severe damage when out of control.
Governments must realize the potential for terrifying reaction becomes ever greater as we encroach upon every wild area of this burdened planet.

Answer 4

That might be worth discussing if you were talking about anarchists being terrorists or something, but if you are talking about al Qaeda-type terrorists, then you are off-base because Osamma bin Laden clearly stated in his Fatwah what his reasons were, and that was the rallying call the guys who flew those planes into buildings on 9/11 were following: Our military bases in muslim countries (particularly the former Riyadh base just outside Mecca), our support of Israel while it continues to seize and occupy more and more Palestinian land, our support of sanctions against Iraq, and there was a fourth one I forget..., but you can look it up.

Answer 5

There's no doubt in my mind radical militant Islam,;like hateful evil ideologies of the past, Stalinism and Nazism actively and knowingly use the weak and vulnerable of their societies.No one who is happy will blow himself up and they can say what they want but the great leader Osama doesn't blow himself up like Hitler didn't go to Stalingrad to get killed by the Russians.
It's a fact Osama uses and exploits all sensibilities of Muslims worldwide,like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.He doesn't care on iota about Palestine,he never talked about it before.He's basically a rich fat cat who wants the US to leave his country,Saudi Arabia so he can have ALL the wealth to himself and his clan.
Palestinians living under the occupation have no life and in those circumstances you get desperate.Desperation often leads to evil

Answer 6

People who feel that they are being unjustly oppressed are likely to become violent, if they despair of ever being able to get better conditions any other way.

If a smart leader sees this, he or she can whip up quite an effective group of terrorists or freedom fighters, or a resistance movement, or whatever you want to call it.

Answer 7

The vast majority of terrorists are religious fundamentalists for some reason. Maybe it could be the fundamentalism?

Answer 8

Lots of latte, reading liberal publications