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Why do people fall into Islamic fundamentalism? (hexbear.net)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

been a while since i read about those kids, but wasn't it a combination of the usual teenage angst, the extra ostracization of eu-cool being shit to muslim immigrants, and romanticizing of the most extra version of their religion?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

It's still fucking stupid from a mile far

Like, if they were just doing terrorism in euro countries in payback for mega-terrorism and colonization, OK, kinda understandable. But further destabilizing under-western-attack countries while doing civilian massacres, where the fuck do you square the liberation there? Or destroying/looting cool archaelogical shit from pre-Islam millenias?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

You know how western teenagers have obscure esoteric fascist ideologies that was invented by some guy in the 1950s or a blogger in 2008? Islamic terrorism is basically that put into practice. Some of the sects deviate so far that they become “enlightened” and think everyone must die for a better world. Pol Pot but in a desert

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

yeah idk. there are women into that tradwife shit too and those reactionary christians are only separated from terrorism or destroying "pagan" artifacts by the frequency of deeds.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Like, if they were just doing terrorism in euro countries in payback for mega-terrorism and colonization, OK, kinda understandable.

Nobody does this. Attacking your "oppressors" out of a desire for payback is an almost non-existent phenomenon. I know it makes sense to the people here but IRLs have different minds

Almost every act of terroristic violence is powered by delusion, not some kind of rational revenge

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Sad