[rgbrenner]

"Their leaders are often university grads from the west."

This is a generalization.. and you're right that there are terrorist groups run by people educated in the west... but this isn't true for Boko Haram. Barkura Doro has no formal education.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakura_Doro

[johnsmith1840]

"Often" does a lot of work there. But the general point is that thinking these guys are dumb is dangerous.