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It only looks abnormal to people who are ignorant of history and suffer from a delusion that knowledge by itself automatically improves people. It is not so, and if you look at other destructive movements, often you find very educated and high-IQ people at the head of it. Communists, while proclaiming to be the leaders of the proletariat, have been all high-middle-class or above since late 19th century. Top terrorist leaders regularly turn out to be well-educated heirs of at least solid high-middle-class background if not above (e.g. Bin Laden). Arafat had a university degree. Khaled Mashal has a university degree. It's absolutely normal and routine. The idea that these movements are moved by ignorance and desperation alone and educating them (without specifically pointing out how) and giving them "alternatives" would dissuade them is a dangerous and ignorant delusion, which nevertheless remains popular contrary to all the facts.
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