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Originally Posted by Itse
Here are a few facts that studies have shown about Muslim terrorists:
- They generally know the Quran only very superficially
- They almost never have a particularly religious upbringing
- Religious Islamic upbringing actually protects people from turning towards violent extremism.
- Studies have found no difference in any of the major religions tendency to produce terrorists. In fact they have not even found religions to be any different from secular ideologies in that regard.
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Do you honestly believe the people driving these movements aren't familiar with their religion? Not every foot soldiers but the leadership and a large component of the fighters. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is an islamic scholar. Al-Zawahiri was devout since he was a child.
You're basically ignoring what they themselves are stating in order to deflect the possibility that they are finding their path in their religious texts.
As for the bold. What? This is just patently dishonest. I'm sure you'll relink your picture of the terrorists deaths in Europe again implying that Basque terrorists, IRA etc were just as bad because many people were killed by them. Which totally ignores the disparity in comparable timespans (40+ years compared to like 20) and the radical advances in surveillance and technology. It also ignores that the majority of attacks come in the Muslim world itself.