Fucking cloud cuckoo land if he you don't think he's been influenced by Jihadist Terror groups especially now the Al Qaeda manual has come to light, I could t be arsed to read the rest of the shite you posted after the first paragraphs.
You're probably right but - having read a raft of books on Salafi-jihadist and far-right terrorism over the last few years - these days I'm inclined to proceed with caution, as quite a bit of what I have encountered has been counterintuitive. If that places me in cloud cuckoo land, then so be it.
For example, most people probably imagine the typical ISIS recruit to be a devout Muslim who dresses accordingly.
But that stereotype is false.
Here's an extract from Olivier Roy's
Jihad and Death: The Appeal of Islamic State.
Roy's comments are mainly based on a French database with details on approximately 100 French jihadists. Make of it what you will.
'Most radicals are deeply immersed in today's 'youth culture'...they go to nightclubs, pick up girls, smoke and drink...[there are] a surprising number of arrests for drink driving, another sign of their low level of religious observance...Their dress habits are those of today's youth: brands, baseball caps, hoods, in other words streetwear...a beard is no longer a sign of devoutness...They never wear the usual Salafi garb - and it not really to go unnoticed... as they never make a secret of their (re)conversion to Islam.
Their musical tastes are those of the times: they like rap music and go to clubs...[They] are also gaming enthusiasts and are fond of violent American movies such as Brian de Palma's
Scarface....kung-fu training rooms and selfies with guns [tend to feature]....There is even a group of jihadi bikers and manga fans in Belgium, the 'Kamikaze Bikers'...some of its members were prosecuted for terrorism....The language spoken by radicals is always that of the country of residence - French, in this case. They often use youth slang and switch to a Salafized version of
banlieu talk when they reconvert...Prison time puts them in contact with their radicalized peers....'
'They do not live in a particularly religious environment. Their relationship to the local mosque was ambivalent: either they attended episodically, or they were expelled for having shown disrespect by the local Imam. None of them belonged to the Muslim Brotherhood...none of them had taken part in proselytizing activities, none of them were members of a Palestinian solidarity group....There is no religious movement that radicalized them 'religiously' before they went over to terrorism. If indeed there was religious radicalization, it did not occur in the framework of Salafi mosques, but individually or within the group.'