Caribou, why are (most of) your posts on the topics like CIA and the middle east always borderline anti-Islam? I mean come on, it's pretty blatant at this point that you dislike Islamic people.
I've said it before and will say it again. He's completely anti-islamic and also borderline tribal against minorities. He doesn't blatantly say it, but instead uses recent events to subliminally get people to start hating, just like starfishs such as Sean Hannity do.
example:
"black neighborhoods have a higher crime rate than white neighborhoods. I'm not tribal guys, I'm just stating the facts!!"
We get that the fact might be true, but so much more goes into it. Things such as poverty, lack of education, drug use, and gang activity all bolster crime rate. The goal of stupid misplaced facts such as the example above is to establish a correlation between the problem and race/religion/culture etc.
I think that's also part of the reason Islamist extremist groups have been more successful than other radical groups. They are a lot more willing to die than their Christian/other counterparts.
Self Delete is also a major sin in Islam. Goes to show that those extremists shouldn't even be called Muslims. Anyway, I have a pretty good idea on why this radicalism is so rampant in Muslim countries. Most of these countries have major corruption in their government. Poverty also plagues many of the countries as well. Radical Christian groups in well developed countries such as Europe have a lot to fear if they tried to start up armies and start attacking people. These countries have tons of money, aid, allies, weapons, etc. Extremists cannot start terrorizing anybody, they would quickly lose. In a country like Syria however, many of it's population was already poor and suffering under Al Assad's regime. It's no surprise many people chose to radicalize and join ranks with the terrorists. It's a lot like national socialist Germany. Riddler swooped in to save the day in a bleak time of German history. Terrorist groups are pretty skilled at uniting people against a common enemy, the West. Many preachers belonging to these groups end up in Europe and the USA and begin to gather followers to send to the fighting. These extremists can actually put up a good fight against a crumbling country. People always bring in religion into this subject but to me it's almost entirely political and economical. With money and a good governmental system, peace is much easier to achieve. With poverty and corruption, comes crime and terrorism.
