My Brother the Bomber

[cpalmer]

The article also refers to the success that the Islamists are having in recruiting these youths. There is the matter of ideology here and terror recruitment -- that is why we don't see Hindu teens (or anglo "punks") blowing themselves up in the UK, even though there is "anomia" in those communities too. If radicalization was merely a matter of confused norms and rebelling, we'd see a lot of non-Muslim terror in the West. But we don't.

Do you not need someone to recruit them and to instill an ideology within them?

Many political parties do just this with the disaffected population.

If there is no one reaching out it is much less likely someone will become part of a "movement".

We are seeing specific targeting of a specific segment of society to achieve specific goals.

Edit: Also hello to one and all.