"Here's how a European ISIS recruit describes his..." Topic

… murderous daily routine.

"It is difficult to imagine oneself in the shoes of one of the young men or women who leave their homes to fight, pillage, and murder on behalf of ISIS, and no less difficult to imagine the experience of ISIS's recruits from far-off Western Europe. Why go? Why give up often-comfortable lives in peaceful communities for the horrors of combat and most likely death far away in Syria or Iraq?

Journalist Ben Taub looked for answers to these questions in a lengthy and excellent New Yorker profile of 18-year-old Belgian ISIS recruit Jejoen Bontinck, who traveled to Syria for jihad before returning home. Although Bontinck is the star of the piece, another young Belgian jihadist who appears in it only briefly, Hakim Elouassaki, offers a much more illuminating look into what motivates ISIS's most enthusiastic recruits…"
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Bullies with a gun and a license to kill or cause mayhem …. talk about a disturbing mix. This post also reveals how successful the Islamic State has been in its recruiting efforts …. they target those who are marginalized and give them what they can never have if they stay in the West …. a sense of power and recognition.

Amicalement
Armand

They get to kill and steal.

They really sound like 5th Century "Germans", "Goths", and "Vandels". They started as a national group but over time became roving groups of looters and freebooters looking for the next score: weapons, money, food, wine and women.

"It is difficult to imagine oneself in the shoes of one of the young men or women who leave their homes to fight, pillage, and murder on behalf of ISIS,

Yes … because most here are not all out idiots, morons, losers, criminals, etc. … And if any of these losers manage to get be home … they should be sent to Gitmo. Or shot on sight by local LEOs … What am I missing here ?