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Originally Posted by Textcritic
How desperate people must be to be consumed by this level of evil. It's the only way I can think of to explain it. An ethnic group on a large scale does not collectively lose its mind and its conscience—not to this degree. I think that deep seeded feelings of marginalisation and despair are triggered by ISIS' own brand of apocalypticism to forge a climate in which such atrocities become acceptable.
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I would argue that its not desperation or marginalization, especially in terms of the effective recruiting of people in the Western World. The majority of them are coming from good middle class families, and well educated people.
Their recruiting is successful because it attracts the idealists, the losers in society, and the crazies or psycho's.
For girls it speaks of romance, you get to marry a fighter, who will give you children and everyone loves everyone over there. You can help the poor and do good works.
For the boys its even more pronounced. You can go and fight to establish a Muslim homeland, where the perceived wrongs won't happen and you'll be part of a bigger thing, you'll be defending your land and your people. Its very much the same recruiting that the commonwealth did in WW!. You'll go to war, be a hero, and everyone will love and respect you.
For some its living by and enforcing a very strict version of Islam.
For some its go over and saw peoples heads off
For some its go over and have sex with an 8 year old girl.
It doesn't matter how inclusive Western Society is to the Islamic communities, the recruiting methods will still find someone, somewhere that is pissed off, or bored, or see's the romantic image.
Yes, they're absolutely getting people that are poor and beaten down.
But man
One of their best online recruiters is called the Bird of Jannah.
they have top notch production and a top notch PR brain in there doing the recruiting.