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Originally Posted by Charlatan
Seaver, those so-called middle class members of oil-rich countries all came into radicalization while doing time at schools in the west. Their path to radicalization had more to do with alienation, disenfranchisement and humiliation than anything else. This has been seen time and again with immigrants that have been radicalized.
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This sounds a bit too much like blaming the victim for me. Maybe they came into radicalization while in the west but what about the radicals who never have come to the West?
Having had a large contingent of Islamic students in my department, and seeing the extreme pressure they put themselves under to be 'good Muslims', how they alienate themselves, and how they treat/intimidate those Muslims who do try to adopt western ways, I think you are off the mark. The problem is inherent to their culture not the West.