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Originally Posted by Textcritic
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 the all 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.
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Actually I don't know how accurate this is but it comes from a CIA report, showing where the recruits are coming from
http://www.rferl.org/contentinfograp.../26584940.html
But it shows a pattern of recruiting that is heavily focused on Europe, more then anywhere else, the two biggests non European recruiting nests look like Jordan (fairly moderate state) and Tunisia.
If you look at Canada, they estimate that 2 out of every million people are recruited to ISIS which sounds right because it would be about 60 people with Canadian pass ports fighting over there.
Tunisia supplies 315 per every million people so they have sent about 3100 fighters over.
Sweden actually surprised me based on this chart, they have supplied about 3000 fighters.
Pretty good New York Times article on how ISIS works
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...773522000&_r=1
Sorry I want to throw some correctives in here because the first article might be off.