VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris attacks

Re:VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris ... by Mikeb85 on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @08:00AM (#10580734)

> This kind of thinking is exactly why Mid-east is in its current state and that is exactly the reason why ISIS was born.

ISIS was born out of the Salafist/Wahhabi ideology that the Saudi state has been exporting from the beginning of its existence. This is why terrorism is almost the exclusive domain of this one sect.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alastair-crooke/isis-wahhabism...

As another poster said, if every disenfranchised person in the world turned to terrorism, we'd have complete and utter chaos. But most don't.

As for you argument, Mali was in the grips of an Islamist army. They aren't any more. Thanks to French intervention.

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Re:VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris ... by megalodon on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @08:46AM (#10580942)

> The government of Mali asked for foreign military help to re-take the north. [1]

Intervening and waging proxy wars in the middle-east sent the message that sovereignty is relative and only applies to countries with "appropriate" views, hence the hate against west.

Still I wouldn't call Mali a stable country as they are constantly plagued by terrorist attacks.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Mali_conflict

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Re:VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris ... by utku_karatas2 on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @08:27AM (#10580845)

Of course, ISIS is not a one variable function.

I think the point you and @chappi42 miss is that being a jobless individual with no prospects in a war torn country with no end in sight is a whole different psychology than just being a jobless guy. Add this mix some religious agitation and you have the easiest job of all times as the HR manager of ISIS. I think this is the biggest contributing factor. Not the religion itself.

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