"For those with a sense of victimhood and alienation, Islamism offers a potent identity to express alienation"

Not Islamism, Islam! If you are a Muslim, you should be happy. If you are not happy it is because somebody, somewhere is being unjust to you. It may be the Jews, or Christians, or secularists, or Hollywood, or Bugs Bunny, but somebody is persecuting you and holding you down. If you fight and kill them, then Islam will rule and all your troubles will end.

There is no clear path from carer to killer. There is, however, a wide, clear road from Muslim to killer. For a Muslim, killing and persecuting is easy. It is commanded in the Quran. Their dear prophet did it, and he is their great moral example. The Quran makes it clear that non-Muslims are inferior to Muslims. This is the way it is in all places where Islam dominates. The concepts of human rights, freedom and equality are alien to Islam.

You will notice time and time again how these terrorists are described as 'sweet' 'loving' 'kind' 'moderate' 'good fathers' 'caring sons' - until the day they go out to slaughter infidels for the glory of Allah. This has nothing to do with being rich or poor, stupid or smart, educated or ignorant, or nacionality, age or gender, or being a doctor, lawyer, cook, teacher or cab driver. It has everything to do with attitudes and values - with ideology and basic beliefs - that is, religion.

Muslims values are not Western liberal values. Muslim countries have not experienced the Renaissance, the reformation, the counter-reformation, the age of reason, the American and French revolutions, the Magna Carta and the rise of democracy.

Am I distorting things? Ask any Muslims about the character of their dear prophet - then ask them about the many vile things he did as recorded in their own histories - including murder, plunder, torture, rape, enslavement of men, women and children, lies, deceipt, and beating his own wife. Those are the values of Mohammad and they cannot be reconciled with liberal values.

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