Why do people fall into Islamic fundamentalism?
Why do people fall into Islamic fundamentalism?
I'm trying to empathise with them... I get why people become radicals of other kinds... but saying no music, no sex, live by the book, behead those who disagree... what part of that makes people think "I want to get into this, this sounds fun"?
The Arab world has valid grievances, which motivated 9-11 for example, but there's more to it than that.
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I always figured it was for roughly the same reasons weird kids convert to be fundies or tradcaths.
I figured roughly the same (or smaller) numbers too, but that it gets played up in the media because it plays into the "They're coming for your pure white children, and They'll have cells in your rural village" narrative. But I'd love to know if there's actual numbers on it.