individuals from politically unstable, oppressive nations, or individuals that experience incredibly poor living standards and suffer from very low political efficacy, are much more likely to utilize, or sympathize with, violent forms of unconventional political action. we've seen it in the past, we see it now in the middle east, we've been seeing it even now in the US. this seems to me the most reasonable explanation for the primary source of motivation for the terrorist groups we've seen in the middle east. groups grasping for power and representation of interests that they're convinced they have no other means of seeing realized. it doesn't make sense to me that this is entirely the fault of a defunct doctrine that drives its followers to inane acts of deathly violence, because islam has existed for many, many centuries, and we're only now, in the past few decades, seeing these terrorist groups rise. it seems incredibly convenient that this would just happen to begin occurring alongside all the political turmoil underway.
