What’s driving teen girls to jihad? Why are so many young women from Western countries running away from home to join a genocidal death cult?

Lets put aside the opportunists, glory seekers and the natural crazies and think for a second.

When you lack the understanding of history, geopolitics and natural human behavior you really are blind. I bet most of the people that left to join didn't even know the difference of Wahhabi Islam vs Sunni Islam, which yeah a little factor but it makes all the difference to anybody with a workign understanding of the difference.

Then the ignorance of cause and effect, these people aren't thinking 50 years down the line or the fact that any war ever only sets back a country/people years, decades or even centuries. i doubt Iraq/Syria will ever be the same for the next 50 years. This is going to sound brutal and fucked up but the only thing that would "save Syria" in the sense of stopping it from staying in chaos would be if Assad won this month and exterminated any resistance then forcefully rebuilt the country or the FSA, i would include ISIS but in ISIS's unique case they'd probably fuck it up if they successfully won. In multiple events in history it has proven that the complete destruction of the other side works, lets just South Korea isn't communist today for a reason.

Of course geopolitics, the only "legitimate" reason ISIS has of its existence is probably the American invasion of Iraq. We went in to "liberate" yet movies like American sniper and Chris Kyles supporters tell a completely different tale. Not to mention the destruction of the government and handing of power to a different Islamic sect. Who already didn't like each other previously. Even that though is not a legitimate reason to blame the other religions and pursue a Jihad. Very other religion was suffering right next to you during that invasion lol. The Taliban are more legitimate then ISIS, i never though i would say that but the Taliban have a cohesive argument for power, i don't agree with it but the moves they make to some degree makes sense. The recent disgusting attack on the military school, yeah horrible but not off the wall ridiculous illogical slaughter. ISIS doesn't seem to give a shit or have a structure at all. The Iranian Shi'ite theocracy in Iran, far-right but still they have a structure to rule, ISIS has no fucking structure at all which just boils it down to useless killing. Same with the Wahabbi sponsoring Saudis.

I don't get it out of all the Jihad groups ISIS makes the least fucking sense but gets the most attention, ironic as fuck. So it comes down to either what i started this off with or the lack of understanding, its like trendy music nobody really gives a shit what the words mean as long as it sounds good.

In the end fuck ISIS, these people that join them are just morons. Its a disgrace to history.

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