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blackbootz  ·  3214 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What the Slaughter of Christians in Lahore Says About the Global Jihad

Maybe you're right. But for me the point was that Wahhabism, AKA a conservative and fundamentalist sect of Islam with roots in Saudia Arabia, lays at the foundation of this wave of global terror. Research has struggled to find other predicting indicators for what drives people to commit terrorism. It's not poverty, level of education, place of birth or upbringing, and while isolation and radicalization is a oft-repeated pattern, there's little to explain why some people radicalize and others don't. Something that surprised me was that brothers were an unusually high class of terrorists. But beyond that, the major predictive factor was a strong belief in certain tenets of the Q'ran and in Islam. In Wahhabism particularly.

So I see the purpose of the article as a call to reform. But if that point was lost on you or a general readership, then I'd be interested in where the article failed.