Well, come to think of it, I read an article that stated there has been a surge in Converts to radical Islam since the war on Iraq started. That's where the terrorists recently busted in Germany came from - people who are just pissed at the status quo in general.
Apparently, the French have been producing the most converts for some reason.
I got this info from an article in Slate
QuoteThe Convert's Zeal
Radical Islamism has become a magnet for some of the world's angriest people.
By Daniel Benjamin
It surmises that the people who are joining are extremely angry at how the world is. Think of the good that could be done if the energy of these people could be channeled into something useful like simply voting out the people who run things now instead of trying to blow things up.
So maybe the reason O is right more often than B is because he understands that there is a great number of people in the west who are disenfranchised. He understands that there is a resource to be used.
I didn't address the issue well earlier because I was confused and sometimes it takes a few posts for me to understand a topic.