In another article I read this month (but can't seem to find right now) it was explained that "terrorism" was mostly... a social network -- and the article above agrees with that characterization, I think.
This whole mess doesn't have a lot to do with religion, Islam or otherwise; it's about young people trying to find meaning.
It may sound absurd, preposterous, ridiculous, despicable even, to compare today's terrorists to peaceniks from the 60s, but dismissing them as "crazies" is even more wrong, and less helpful.
(And I say this as a Frenchman having lived in Paris all my life).
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2015/nov/16/paris-attac...
In another article I read this month (but can't seem to find right now) it was explained that "terrorism" was mostly... a social network -- and the article above agrees with that characterization, I think.
This whole mess doesn't have a lot to do with religion, Islam or otherwise; it's about young people trying to find meaning.
It may sound absurd, preposterous, ridiculous, despicable even, to compare today's terrorists to peaceniks from the 60s, but dismissing them as "crazies" is even more wrong, and less helpful.
(And I say this as a Frenchman having lived in Paris all my life).