American IS fighter: I made a bad decision

This is all a big cop-out. The persecution complex toward a bully is directed at those who are in the bully's family but who didn't engage in the bullying. Fine. But don't pretend that you wouldn't have been better equipped to handle a more empathetic understanding of the situation and rise above a persecution complex, if your own religion hadn't preconditioned you to the us-versus-them mentality with which you reject and deny the narratives of The Other Culture.

The us-vs-them ism of Islam originates from its teaching of the fundamental identity of the Muslim in relation to his faith and in relation to the Infidels around him. So the basic psychology alienation is actually baked into the identity philosophy of the religion before you get to any complex questions of how people reacted to the Islamist violence of others. Whether or not you could have empathetically overcome any alienation due to others' fearful reactions to Islamic violence, is rather moot since (1) you didn't overcome such alienation and didn't develop the empathy to understand their fearful resentment and (2) you still lack the empathy and maintain an insistence that what you're encountering is hatred. The fact that you express hatred of the reactions of victims of religious violence, reveals that you lack any awareness that this is no different than someone hating you for being of the same religion as those who victimized them.

In expressing your hatred of those who react unduly to Islamic violence, rather than empathy, you are no better than those who express fear/resentment of Muslims due to Islamic violence.

tldr; you are just as sociopathic and blaming as those whom you hate

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