“Poverty does not explain the lure of jihad for Western fighters… Nor does a failure to integrate into the societies around them… Nor does religious piety. […] More plausible explanations are the desire to escape the ennui of home and to find an identity… Images of combatants playing snooker, eating sweets and splashing in swimming pools have sometimes suggested that jihad was not unlike a student holiday, without the booze. For young men working in dead-end jobs in drab towns, the brotherhood, glory and guns seem thrilling.”
Posted on: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 15:05:27 +0000
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