This article (as well as all of Daniel’s writings) are immersed in rational, logical thinking, being a student of history, he looks into the past to flesh out the present and to some degree, even to the future.
We are expected to believe that there are hundreds of explanations for Islamic terrorism, but not one. And while no doubt individual choices and emotions play a role in the making of a Muslim terrorist, the same is true in the making of a soldier. An army exists as part of a positive national ethos. Reducing an army to a series of personal dissatisfactions is absurd. So is reducing ISIS to individually dissatisfied people while ignoring what its members actually believe. It’s as absurd as believing that Hitler became a monster because he couldn’t get his painting career off the ground.
THE FALLACY OF FOCUSING ON ISLAMIC RADICALIZATION
The issue isn’t radicalization. It’s Islamization.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.
There are Jihadists from dozens of countries who have joined ISIS. What do they all have in common?
The official answer is radicalization. Muslims in Europe are “radicalized” by alienation, racism and unemployment. Neglected by governments, Muslim youth band together and become terrorists. Muslims in Israel are responding to the “despair and hopelessness” of the “Occupation”. Muslims from the rest of the Middle East are angry over their “dictators”. Muslims from the Ukraine? Who knows.
Radicalization comes packaged with a set of local grievances and explanations. It contends that all Muslim terrorism is a response to local conditions and that we are responsible for those conditions. Even though the “radicalization” is Islamic, it denies that Islam plays a positive role as a Jihadist goal. Instead, like Halal liquor or hashish, it’s what Muslims turn to when they have been disappointed in the West or in their own governments. Islam is just what happens when a Belgian Muslim can’t get a job.
And yet Islam is the only positive uniting factor for Islamic terrorism.
Why otherwise should a Moroccan youth from a French suburb who works at a nightclub, the son of a rural Saudi farmer who has never been outside his country and an American teenager who converted to Islam all risk their lives to form an Islamic State? The Jihadis of ISIS are a truly multinational and multicultural bunch. They have traveled to two foreign countries that most of them have never been to.
What else unites them into a common identity that they are willing to kill and die for if it isn’t Islam?
3% CAUSED THE american REVOLUTION. These people have 10% terrorist, and 90% supporters of sharia. A culture within a culture.
The goal is replacing the hated white culture with muslims. Cheap labor is the goal, but its hard to use with all those broken war torn buildings. its liberalism by college disease
Seems thee is a white migration to countries NOT allowing muslims.