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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] 14 points 7 months ago (9 children)

I'd recommend the book Engineers of Jihad. It's precisely the people who wish to change the world and then are denied by external forces (largely the U.S. in this case) that are primed for radicalization.

Also iirc, Bashar al-Assad's father was the one who actually developed the tactic/justification but I'm having trouble finding a source, it's early.

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

thanks for the recommendation

Hafez al-Assad pioneered suicide-bombings iirc

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