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A comparison here that I am making between Columbine and the Paris and Brussels attacks.
Molenbeek's gangster jihadis - BBC News
This article from the BBC puts some perspective into where the terrorists came from and what motivated them to do what they did.
Did they do what they did because they were deeply religious people who wanted to take down the west and impose their version of Islam onto everyone else, or were they kids who grew up angry and wanted to do something similar to Columbine?
Molenbeek (in Brussels), "this densely populated district of Brussels has 40% youth unemployment."
"But one phrase you often hear when foreign journalists attempt a vox pop is that "terrorism has nothing to do with Islam"."
"Certainly, many of those who joined IS from the area did not come from particularly religious backgrounds."
"Salah Abdeslam and his elder brother Brahim - who blew himself up in the Paris attacks - used to run a cafe in Molenbeek that sold alcohol and was closed down for drug offences. One friend of the brothers who used to hang out there told me he would regularly see Brahim Abdeslam "watching IS videos, with a joint in one hand, and a beer in another". He said Brahim would spout off radical statements but that no-one took him seriously."
"There is certainly a sense of disaffection among many in Molenbeek."
"It was the fault of domestic conditions. He railed against the Belgian government - against white Belgians, who hated those of Arab descent, he said. And he would repeat "there is no democracy here" - a feeling that you can't express any view dissenting from the mainstream without being labelled extreme."
""The young people from Molenbeek feel frustrated because they were marginalised by the Belgian government. They have never tried to give them work, education, social help in order to get them integrated into society," he [Sheikh Bassam Ayachi ] said."
The rest you can read if you choose to do so.
However the question is, if people who commit these attacks smoke, drink and do all kinds of things, are they really the religious people we think they are?
Is IS just a way for angry young people to fight back at whatever it is they have learned to hate, similar to what happens with school attacks in the US? Rather than just simply religious?
Molenbeek's gangster jihadis - BBC News
This article from the BBC puts some perspective into where the terrorists came from and what motivated them to do what they did.
Did they do what they did because they were deeply religious people who wanted to take down the west and impose their version of Islam onto everyone else, or were they kids who grew up angry and wanted to do something similar to Columbine?
Molenbeek (in Brussels), "this densely populated district of Brussels has 40% youth unemployment."
"But one phrase you often hear when foreign journalists attempt a vox pop is that "terrorism has nothing to do with Islam"."
"Certainly, many of those who joined IS from the area did not come from particularly religious backgrounds."
"Salah Abdeslam and his elder brother Brahim - who blew himself up in the Paris attacks - used to run a cafe in Molenbeek that sold alcohol and was closed down for drug offences. One friend of the brothers who used to hang out there told me he would regularly see Brahim Abdeslam "watching IS videos, with a joint in one hand, and a beer in another". He said Brahim would spout off radical statements but that no-one took him seriously."
"There is certainly a sense of disaffection among many in Molenbeek."
"It was the fault of domestic conditions. He railed against the Belgian government - against white Belgians, who hated those of Arab descent, he said. And he would repeat "there is no democracy here" - a feeling that you can't express any view dissenting from the mainstream without being labelled extreme."
""The young people from Molenbeek feel frustrated because they were marginalised by the Belgian government. They have never tried to give them work, education, social help in order to get them integrated into society," he [Sheikh Bassam Ayachi ] said."
The rest you can read if you choose to do so.
However the question is, if people who commit these attacks smoke, drink and do all kinds of things, are they really the religious people we think they are?
Is IS just a way for angry young people to fight back at whatever it is they have learned to hate, similar to what happens with school attacks in the US? Rather than just simply religious?
