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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
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...
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Yeah, there are a lot of recruits coming out of the modern developed West, but the majority of ISIS supporters? I'm quite sure that is not correct; the Islamic State is still primarily defined by ethnic and geographical boundaries.
A movement like this definitely attracts reps. from all the crazy and depraved groups that you point to in your post, but I don't believe these people were the driving force in its semination and its ongoing persistence. If so, then why has the movement not made a greater impact in larger numbers
within Western culture?
No. Maybe the most frightening thing about what is happening is the recognition that huge numbers of the people who are swept up in the movement are probably ordinary people insofar as they are neither sociopaths nor psychopaths. Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinarily terrible and unthinkable things.