Why Do People Become Islamic Extremists?

Q: How do people become Islamic extremists and terrorists?

A: The same way that people became a Nazi or a Communist. They were promised change in a corrupt society via violent overthrow of a bad government, only to get one that's even worse.

There's a reason why it's called 'Islamofascism', folks. They are not just a Middle East problem or a nuisance to the West. They are this generation's 'Face of Evil', just as the Axis Powers were for my grandparents and the Soviets for my parents. They are literally the new form of Totalitarian EVIL in the world today.

We aren't going to just destroy them with perpetual war, either. At best, that will just be a very costly way of keeping them contained to the Middle East and too occupied to launch many attacks against Western targets. We'll ultimately destroy them the same way that we destroyed the Soviets: forcing them to try and compete with us through economics and ideology. That's a fight that no one can ever win against us. Despite what the enemy and their fifth column in the Democratic Party will say, NOTHING beats a Free Republic that also embraces Free Enterprise.

- Lord Publius