and themselves !!
Very strange behaviour. Not happy people.
A psychological profile of say Jihaddi John would be interesting to spot new ones. According to the press he was a hard working, well behaved student before taking up the role of executioner. Quiet and attentive too. Was he sane and now gone mad or radicalised and gone bad ?
Cause life is pretty hum drum dull and boring as rain traveling down some drain pipe.
They are below average nobodies who are looked down upon by the West. Their family and peer group are grovelling underclass who blame all that is around them and have this placebo faith that's utopia and has answers to all their issues.
They become! That's the attraction. They are then subsequently in the eye of the storm where it's all happening. Guns, women, power, drama. World's eyes peering down on them.
Family relatives and peer group have been blaming the West for all their ills and in their eyes they now become the bodies fighting to defend the faith.
There is no comparison between two options. Job centre or sunny deserts of the ME with a gun in your hand and well provided for killing the enemy.
Politics of it all too. Great attraction to determine ones destiny. They become heros and legends amongts their peer group. What we think of them is of no consequences because we are the enemy.
Pretty logical outcome from my perspective. No madness but a dynamic exciting life compared to boring struggle of life doing routine work.
One could easily radicalise and manipulate young minds if one knows what the triggers are.
Having said all that don't forget ISIS is a creation of US/UK & Turkey imho. It was engineered to destabilise Syria. Now it has evolved ambitions and strategy to destabilise the ME and capture its oil and any vested interest in the region. :!:
