...even in the immediate aftermath of an atrocity like this. This will come as no surprise. They will tell you that this has nothing to do with Islam. It has nothing to do with heartfelt religious convictions. No, it has everything to do with capitalism and the oppression of minorities, and the racism of white people in Europe, and the racism of cartoonists at a magazine like Charlie Hebdo. That is the cause of this behaviour. That’s what causes someone to grab an AK-47 and murder 12 cartoonists and then scream Allahu Akbar in the streets. It is a completely insane analysis.
I get the sense that people still don’t understand what we’re dealing with here. Have you seen any of these interviews with captured Isis fighters? Religion is the whole story. They are totally fixated on getting into paradise. In fact, the Kurds have put female soldiers into the field, and this terrifies members of Isis because they believe that they won’t go to paradise if they get killed by a woman. They literally run away from these female soldiers.
I managed to find one of the Sam Harris clips where he talks about this