Or perhaps, Peter, criminals are radicalized in jail and offered salvation from their sins through martyrdom, according to the Qutbist interpretation of islam:https://ctc.usma.edu/the-danger-of-prison-radicalization-in-the-west/ …
Oh , obvs, @kirbmarc . Isis loves beer-drinking lowlifes who never go near a mosque. Ignoring the basic rules of the Islamic faith is the foundation and basis of Islamic fanaticism. Stands to reason. Or rather, it does if you yourself are a fundamentalist of a different sort.https://twitter.com/kirbmarc/status/1074584810939670528 …
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"Jihadi John" was also known to have drunk alcohol before being radicalized: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/15/jihadi-john-making-of-terrorist-robert-verkaik-isis … Do you have any conspiracy theories about him, too?
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As once famously quoted Religion the Opium of the masses. Like any drug people react to it in various ways. Some drugs are more extreme than others and Islam is up there with heroin.
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His parents say that he was a fan of ISIS, but apparently you know better. OK then.
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Counter-terrorism experts have explained very clearly how Qutbist terrorist groups go out of their way to recruit people in prisons, the parents of the terrorist claim he was a fan of ISIS, but Peter knows better than that, of course.
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Both are true.
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The 9/11 hijackers went to a strip club prior to their attack. When martyrdom wiped out your sins, the guilty consider it.
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A taxi driver from Strasbourg says some of the killer's friends had seen him drinking beer, and because it fits Mr Hitchens' pet theory, it becomes fact in his mind.
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Local people say they had not seen the killer at their mosques, so in Mr Hitchens' mind this becomes Chekatt would "never go near a mosque".
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