Actually, after reading some more I'll agree - I'm wrong on some things, but so I see is Bewitched.
Here's another interesting article:
http://worldnews.about.com/od/islamreligionpolitics/a/islam_terrorism.htm
What makes a Suicide Bomber
The article is worth reading in full, but here are some of the key findings made in recent studies by psychologists, political scientists, and anthropologists of the factors motivating and sustaining global terrorism:
1) Suicide bombers are not suicidal. Suicide bombers do not exhibit the typical "risk factors" psychologists associate with suicide. In a study of suicide bombers around the world, it was found that most were educated members of the middle class who showed no signs of being clinically depressed.
2) A country's relationship with the United States, not the U.S. "State Sponsors of Terrorism" list or the country's level of religious radicalism, predicts its production of terrorists. A statistical analysis of 315 suicide attacks from 1980 to 2003 found no correlation between a bomber's place of origin and the presence of more extreme forms of Islam. Moreover, not a single attacker came from a country designated as a "state sponsor of terrorism." Most came from Muslim regimes with close ties to the United States.
3) People become terrorists through social networks and emotional bonds, not because of religious devotion or indoctrination. Studies also show that Muslims join the global jihad primarily through interpersonal relationships, and not because of their prior beliefs or psychological makeup. Argo writes, "Emotion and social ties precede the acquisition of an ideology."
4) Most jihadis are immigrants. 84% of terrorists were second generation immigrants born in Western countries (Sageman). Turning to the jihad is a response of the alienation and discrimination they feel in their new countries. (All of the participants in the 2005 London bombing, for example were first and second generation immigrants.)
5) Terrorism is seen as a form of empowerment. For peoples who feel dispossessed or politically oppressed, participating in terrorist activities is a way of finding empowerment in a situation where people perceive no other choice exists. As one suicide bomber as quoted by Pape and Argo put it, "If we don't fight, we will suffer. If we do fight, we will suffer, but so will they."
6) Religious belief may help sustain terrorists' commitment to the jihad, but it is not what causes them to join in the first place. This is Argo's interpretation of the scholars she surveys. In a word: "alienation and perceived grievance are necessary to galvanise a population; social networks remain the primary mechanism by which mobilisation occurs."