Fuck Muhammad!!!

[HairOfTheDog]

So it is not anymore about America alone, but much more general. There are more Muslims killing Muslims at this stage that the rest of the planet could just sit by and watch them eradicate themselves without any sort of outside help.

At the risk of appearing uber-specific , I don't think it was ever about America alone.

War and terror have always existed and I agree with you that environment is a big part of what most children become. There's plenty of fucked-uppery in every country, every ideology, every religion... Effin' humans.

Anyway, you posted something in another thread a while back that I thought hit the nail on the head -- something to the effect that hopelessness was the largest single contributor to amassing recruits to violent organizations.

It's easier for me to understand terrorists attracting hopeless poverty-stricken individuals via religious extremism in their own backyards than it is for me to understand how IS has managed to attract and convert so many brutal Australians, Brits, and other western volunteers. I tend to think mental and emotional illness figures heavily into that phenomenon.