Quote Originally Posted by GeoFisher View Post
I think for someone to become radicalized there needs to be a catalyst besides Islam. In most cases, the catalyst is poverty. Think about it. LOTS and LOTS of radicalized Muslims don't have a pot to piss in. They start to form a bond around the only stabilizing factor they know. HATE for the WEST.

Gangland violence in the inner city is very similar.

But poverty isn't always the catalyst. Sometimes simply being a loner and someone who can be indoctrinated is enough. I think the younger brother here simply fell into the indoctrination that his older brother was doing.

Bottom line......it is evil, and EVIL spawns HATE, and Hate spawns violence.........SAD, but that is our world.
Wow... there has been a rift in the spacetime continuum... 'cuz I agree with this completely.

Oh, and BTW, my post about "no such thing as radical Islam" wasn't very well thought-out. What is being preached in some mosques IS a radicalized form of Islam. But I believe that to be a bastardized version, not the true faith.