Why don’t most people become terrorists?

The point is that for 99.99 per cent of humans, terrorism is not an attractive career choice. Why it is not is not so obvious.

Islamic terrorists, pictured on Flickr. The world needs to reach out to the 'silent majority' and make them part of the answer. So let us celebrate the reality that terrorism remains the preferred choice of a very small number of people and exaggerating the scale of the problem is not helpful, writes Phil Gurski. Photograph courtesy of Flickr

Opinion

BY PHIL GURSKI

December 12, 2016

OTTAWA—As I have noted in earlier columns, I am a Sherlock Holmes fan. The first story published in The Strand magazine under the title, “Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes,” beginning in December 1892 was ‘Silver Blaze,' in which Holmes has to solve the disappearance of a famous race horse...

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