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thucythucy

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8. My mistake.

Mon Nov 16, 2015, 11:39 AM

Nov 2015

I. need. more. coffee.

Anyway, thanks for posting this article. It reinforces my feeling that focusing exclusively on religion misses an entire spectrum of economic and racial discrimination and social and political alienation that have much more to do with why people (mostly young men, I would think) would enlist in such a movement. Not to mention, people will do almost anything to keep themselves and their families from starving.

BTW, thanks also for your many posts here on DU. You are one of the main reasons I come back here when I do. I can pretty much always count on you to cut through the blather.

Best wishes.

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What I Discovered From Interviewing Imprisoned ISIS Fighters [View all] struggle4progress Nov 2015 OP

As I stated in the GD discussion earlier, this does not account for the foreign fighters Yorktown Nov 2015 #1

Let me first congratulate you for posting one of the silliest statistical graphics I have ever seen! struggle4progress Nov 2015 #2

Congratulations for putting your head so fast in the sand Yorktown Nov 2015 #4

The article at the link doesn't seem to address this, thucythucy Nov 2015 #3

The article, in fact, mentions that possibility directly: struggle4progress Nov 2015 #6

My mistake. thucythucy Nov 2015 #8

You are too kind struggle4progress Nov 2015 #12

so religion has nothing to do with it? edhopper Nov 2015 #5

Of course not. Why do you ask. Yorktown Nov 2015 #7

I didn't read this OP as saying "religion had nothing to do with it" thucythucy Nov 2015 #9

Yes, that is true edhopper Nov 2015 #10

I haven't been following the larger debate here. thucythucy Nov 2015 #13

That's okay edhopper Nov 2015 #14

Very informative article - thanks for posting it. Jim__ Nov 2015 #11

This couldn't be any more intellectually bankrupt skepticscott Nov 2015 #15