---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <s3raphita@...> wrote :
Have you noticed how the mainstream media (both in the UK and US) has taken to the expression "they were radicalised" when referring to homegrown Muslim terrorists? They make it sound like these nihilistic, death-infatuated losers were just regular, upstanding members of their local community when they caught some highly infectious disease so are basically just victims themselves; naive innocents taken in by slick propaganda videos. We're talking about Islamic State - a death cult that sexually enslaves young women, throws gays off tall buildings, loathes western freedoms, fears the liberation of women, pitilessly murders our fellow citizens, approves of the killing of apostates, hates Jews, Christians and liberals, trashes our priceless cultural heritage, and is implacably opposed to free speech. Anyone who sympathises with IS is a cancer in our midst and should be called to account and not mollycoddled. Stop treating them as victims and hold them to account. Nice synopsis. ISIS is an aberration of nature. They are evil, cold blooded, delusional and merciless. They are monsters. However, I don't read the "radicalization" as some sort of unfortunate misfortune that befell some innocent bystanders and I don't think the term is used to engender such feelings. I hold the men and women who choose to embrace the jihad mentality fully responsible for their choice to act like psychopathic killers and I am pretty sure everyone else does as well. There is no sympathy there, no feeling that anyone was a victim or coerced in some way.
