&gt; That&#x27;s a caricature. A lot of the perpetrators, like in 9&#x2F;11, are highly educated and even westernized people, not some backwater goat herders believing such BS.<p>I am fully aware of this, I said so in other comment. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10564189" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10564189</a> The mistake you are making here is the idea that otherwise intelligent and educated people cannot believe crazy things. Just look at the Christian nutjobs.