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TheKentuckian

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93. You think the vast majority of the home grown types aren't stupid kids (many literally children)?
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 08:44 PM
Feb 2015

Shit, many of the leaders are probably stupid kids or little more than that.

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Better that they leave to fulfill their destiny over there rather than become geek tragedy Feb 2015 #1
Wow randys1 Feb 2015 #2
I rarely agree with him jamzrockz Feb 2015 #9
These are stupid kids, there is a difference randys1 Feb 2015 #11
Exactly, they're little more than kids, 15-16. God knows, anybody Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #19
They must be halfwits cwydro Feb 2015 #34
Out of control hormones, the need to rebel and slick Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #37
I was quoting my elderly mother actually, cwydro Feb 2015 #40
Ah, the folly of youth... Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #45
Yeah, I was pretty damn foolish too, cwydro Feb 2015 #49
Apparently, according to other accounts I've read, Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #62
I would guess they get a line on the recruiting sites thru the mosque riderinthestorm Feb 2015 #72
Nope. Sorry. tabasco Feb 2015 #94
You think the vast majority of the home grown types aren't stupid kids (many literally children)? TheKentuckian Feb 2015 #93
agreed samsingh Feb 2015 #80
There's a nightmare in store for them Man from Pickens Feb 2015 #3
Meh. Sign up with the most evil cause on the planet, karma. geek tragedy Feb 2015 #4
Have a little understanding for the vulnerabilities of the young... Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #8
The targets are well aware of what ISIS does to 'infidels.' geek tragedy Feb 2015 #15
that's pretty cold Man from Pickens Feb 2015 #13
Not saying they deserve it, but they're putting themselves in danger out of a desire geek tragedy Feb 2015 #18
Agree, a case of egregiously bad judgment. Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #22
we're not saying they deserve to be raped - we're saying it's going to happen and they are samsingh Feb 2015 #82
neither am i samsingh Feb 2015 #81
True about the 'home-grown' terrorist threat... Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #5
The target is people who were never truly at home in western civilization. geek tragedy Feb 2015 #10
A newphew of mine is Iranian Fumesucker Feb 2015 #21
I can assure you if he grew up in Iran he would not be joining ISIS. geek tragedy Feb 2015 #23
How do you know that's what they are hearing? Fumesucker Feb 2015 #25
I will save all of my sympathy for the young people who get murdered and tortured, or watch geek tragedy Feb 2015 #30
It'll probably happen to some of these kids too.. Fumesucker Feb 2015 #35
Precisely, the MSM is just more adults trying to control Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #43
i'm with you - i have no sympthany for people who are uprooting their lives and not samsingh Feb 2015 #83
It's not like there hasn't leftynyc Feb 2015 #38
I don't even own a TV, not everyone does, I have a radio in a drawer for emergencies Fumesucker Feb 2015 #41
I'm sorry, but you'd leftynyc Feb 2015 #57
But if that were true, you would never have run into the propaganda - which includes Yo_Mama Feb 2015 #89
'Blame the victims when it comes to vulnerable children', indeed! Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #24
If he's from Iran, then he's a Shiite Baptist and most certainly would not have joined the Sunni Bluenorthwest Feb 2015 #66
The 'Whitehouse Conference to Counter Violent Extremism' was Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #47
people attracted to ISIS may physically be present in western societies, but never shared geek tragedy Feb 2015 #50
Yikes. cyberswede Feb 2015 #31
it sounds cold, but who would want ISIS sympathizers living in their neighborhood? geek tragedy Feb 2015 #48
i wouldn't samsingh Feb 2015 #88
agreed samsingh Feb 2015 #79
Social Darwinism in action Android3.14 Feb 2015 #6
So here's what I don't get B2G Feb 2015 #7
If you want to know the real reason LittleBlue Feb 2015 #14
Also jamzrockz Feb 2015 #16
They may come from well-off families, but they are Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #17
What boobs... n/t greytdemocrat Feb 2015 #12
Not cool Android3.14 Feb 2015 #27
"Women" is an awfully strange word to describe minor girls. "Children" or "teen girls"? Sure. LeftyMom Feb 2015 #20
Agree, hence the use of 'YOUNG women', because they're Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #29
I'm sorry for these girls, they are very young and at an age where this kind of propaganda dissentient Feb 2015 #26
To an extent I blame the culture that leaves them vulnerable to this propaganda Fumesucker Feb 2015 #28
Ok, but religious traditions are deeply rooted in most of culture dissentient Feb 2015 #33
If many people do a stupid thing that does not mean it's not a stupid thing.. Fumesucker Feb 2015 #39
I have more respect for religious beliefs and traditions than you do dissentient Feb 2015 #42
ISIS is doing what power mad nutjobs have always done Fumesucker Feb 2015 #44
Fair enough. I just see this differently. To me, ISIS is like a child molester in this situation dissentient Feb 2015 #46
You'd be surprised how often the child molester is brought into the kid's life by the parent(s). Fumesucker Feb 2015 #51
Well, my sympathies. I certainly didn't know I would be bringing up bad memories dissentient Feb 2015 #54
We're good... Fumesucker Feb 2015 #55
And the potential recruits are 'groomed' by ISIS' Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #64
I also blame Western culture for demonizing Islam. Maedhros Feb 2015 #56
Yeah, I don't disagree with that either Fumesucker Feb 2015 #59
I agree. Rhinodawg Feb 2015 #61
As the Jesuits say (in a firghteningly similar context), Jackpine Radical Feb 2015 #36
Where on the web do they recruit them? cwydro Feb 2015 #32
Don't know, but French President Hollande wants Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #67
Scary. Nt cwydro Feb 2015 #85
What's happening to them once they get there? aint_no_life_nowhere Feb 2015 #52
ISIS is especially good at organizing their new recruits-- Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #69
"married off to a deserving male 'jihadi'" aint_no_life_nowhere Feb 2015 #75
Well, the Prophet did allow up to four--although I suspect that Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #78
They're married off. Yo_Mama Feb 2015 #90
"More and more"? Orsino Feb 2015 #53
Well, if you prefer, 'increasing numbers' of young women, just as they are Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #63
Interesting article so far, but doesn't seem to make a case for growing recruitment... Orsino Feb 2015 #65
Yep....I like it. Rhinodawg Feb 2015 #58
Well, if you're just too stressed out by the plethora of choices Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #70
Dulce et Decorum Est DonCoquixote Feb 2015 #60
Foolish. Dawson Leery Feb 2015 #68
Well, I'd say make them undergo some sort of Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #74
Awful. Shrouded, disappeared, enslaved and most likely pregnant at 15-16 yrs old riderinthestorm Feb 2015 #71
They are cutting themselves off from their families and the only Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #73
The family's pain must be terrible. Just terrible. riderinthestorm Feb 2015 #76
There was recently a documentary here on French TV Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #77
apparently the mother and sister of the boston bombers were on their side in perpretating the samsingh Feb 2015 #87
assuming the family is not into the propaganda themselves. samsingh Feb 2015 #84
I wondered about them too. Rhinodawg Feb 2015 #86
Dumbasses! Quantess Feb 2015 #91
Yes, I fear they'll live to regret their bad judgment... Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #92
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