Sometimes kids who've only known the western country wanting to explore the Muslim part of their identity & doing so rather performatively.
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This is the case with the girls I knew anyway. It was an immature thing typical of teenagers trying on identities & doing it in extremes.
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Young people becoming radicalised ties into identity in a different way or maybe starts the same but goes sour.
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Could have something to do with lacking identity. It seems to be a reoccurring theme in any problem the west faces presently. With nothing..
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.. concrete to integrate into, it's easy to see how some people would regress to islamism, b/c it at least gives them a concrete identity...
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.. to latch onto: a set of rules and a community that has formed around it. Multikulti liberalism gives them nothing but platitudes.
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Yes but those aren't the only options. There is also various forms of British identity which are open to people of all backgrounds.
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An awful lot of football fans are of Pakistani origin, for example.
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I was about to say that besides sport, the every other major tribal identity has been under attack for ages now. Both religion& patriotism..
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Yeah but there are lots of mini-tribes & this is more meaningful to most ppl. Gaming, Cosplay, D&D, sport, music, academic areas.
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These mini tribes do not form the basis of political movements/action and they do not provide much in the way of social cohesion. They...
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