Haha. I have a good buddy who's parents are from Lebanon. He was raised muslim, here in the states... He's now as devout of a Muslim as I am a Jew - which is fucking NOT. He doesn't eat Halal, I don't eat Kosher. We both love bacon.
He couldn't give a crap about the religion outside of the bullshit he has to deal with from shitheads who see him and his family, and assume he's ready to strap a bomb onto his chest.. Most muslims in the world, including within the "muslim world" share this notion.
I've said this before - Nobody wants to be a terrorist (other than the few whackjob Timothy McVeigh types who just want to instill chaos in the world in whatever way, dead or alive) the problem is that that part of the world has had it's growth stunted at every turn - whether by internal or external forces.
You have poor farmers who's land is destroyed in wars by western aggression to influence the nation you live in by the same bullshit notion that the domino theory was guided by...
They now have nothing left, and are thereby easily influenced by the loudmouth Donald Trumps and Ted Cruz's where they live - people who have power by having control of weapons and support of local religious leaders rather than money and corporate influence.
They turn to god in the same way someone on a 12 step program turns to god, and when their corrupt leaders influence them to bring death to the America that has brought pain to their lives, they do it... It's fucking simple as that... It has less to do with islam, and more to do with the situation at hand. Islam may be more likely to seed violence, but that's only because the writings in Islamic texts can be that much more easily used to incite violence than that found in the Torah or Bible - of which both have plenty of violence inciting text...
The majority of these terrorists aren't like those characters in 4 Lions... they're from a background and influence we couldn't even fathom here in the states.
He couldn't give a crap about the religion outside of the bullshit he has to deal with from shitheads who see him and his family, and assume he's ready to strap a bomb onto his chest.. Most muslims in the world, including within the "muslim world" share this notion.
I've said this before - Nobody wants to be a terrorist (other than the few whackjob Timothy McVeigh types who just want to instill chaos in the world in whatever way, dead or alive) the problem is that that part of the world has had it's growth stunted at every turn - whether by internal or external forces.
You have poor farmers who's land is destroyed in wars by western aggression to influence the nation you live in by the same bullshit notion that the domino theory was guided by...
They now have nothing left, and are thereby easily influenced by the loudmouth Donald Trumps and Ted Cruz's where they live - people who have power by having control of weapons and support of local religious leaders rather than money and corporate influence.
They turn to god in the same way someone on a 12 step program turns to god, and when their corrupt leaders influence them to bring death to the America that has brought pain to their lives, they do it... It's fucking simple as that... It has less to do with islam, and more to do with the situation at hand. Islam may be more likely to seed violence, but that's only because the writings in Islamic texts can be that much more easily used to incite violence than that found in the Torah or Bible - of which both have plenty of violence inciting text...
The majority of these terrorists aren't like those characters in 4 Lions... they're from a background and influence we couldn't even fathom here in the states.