I’m trying to empathise with them… I get why people become radicals of other kinds… but saying no music, no sex, live by the book, behead those who disagree… what part of that makes people think “I want to get into this, this sounds fun”?

The Arab world has valid grievances, which motivated 9-11 for example, but there’s more to it than that.

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    Corey from Iowa joining the U.S. army

    Corey can still have casual sex and drink beers and listen to weird rap-country he likes or whatever.

    Islamism is weird in that they mandate being really uptight and anti-fun in a lot of ways.