State of emergency declared across France after Paris shootings and explosions

Re:State of emergency declared across France after Paris sho... by jacquesm on Friday November 13, 2015 @07:10PM (#10563460)

If you go down that route you'll have a hard time explaining 'Jihad John' and the many western youths (including some that are extremely pale skinned) and that suddenly feel the need to join IS or do something else that is profoundly stupid and against their self-interests in every way.

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Re:State of emergency declared across France after Paris sho... by yarou on Friday November 13, 2015 @07:34PM (#10563591)

That doesn't have anything to do with religion.

Everyone has an existential crisis in their life, and desires to become a part of something greater than themselves.

The traditional institutions in Western society that promoted this sense of belonging have been eroded in the recent decade, which could explain the trend toward joining organizations like ISIS and their ilk.

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Re:State of emergency declared across France after Paris sho... by jacquesm on Friday November 13, 2015 @08:01PM (#10563732)

That is much closer to the root cause than most analysis I read in the media. But it's a much harder problem to tackle and does not make for infotainment and so will get a lot less airtime.

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Re:State of emergency declared across France after Paris sho... by gangcil_yc on Friday November 13, 2015 @07:51PM (#10563673)

There are apparently some driving elements behind that: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/26/cage-campaigner...

At the larger scale, religious justifications are no more relevant than socialism's role in turning some rural Cambodians into ruthless killers (as opposed to the state-terrorism): http://johnpilger.com/articles/from-pol-pot-to-isis-anything...

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Re:State of emergency declared across France after Paris sho... by Aoyagi on Friday November 13, 2015 @07:56PM (#10563697)

"Jihad John" was from Kuwait and lived outside of UK most of his adult life.

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Re:State of emergency declared across France after Paris sho... by mentat on Saturday November 14, 2015 @11:33AM (#10566184)

Jihad John gets an excuse to rape random women and kill people. It gets him outside the social structures that would not condone these sorts of aggressive activities. I don't think it's against self-interests for messed up people.

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