Brussels explosions, at least 13 dead

They're upset over poverty.

 

No difference between looking like a fool with an assault rifle at a grocery store and blowing up a train or missing and killing several people.

 

A small, but not insignificant, number of those gun totin' losers are on a razors' edge just waiting to go Charles Whitman on the public.

 

I "get" the thing about the virgins, I just find it hard to believe that it still works as a recruiting tool at this point. Of course, you will always be able to find some ignorant people who will swallow anything if they think it will give their life meaning, and they don't have better options - but still.

 

I mean, it's in the book. If you believe the Quran is the word of God, it's not about better options. That's a terrific option. Paradise, virgins. God says so.

It's the same leap other faiths have with much less violent results.

 

But these people are not martyrs. There is no "greater cause," no tangible benefit to the faith, it's just dying for the sake of dying (and wanting to take other people out with you). The point of sacrifice is some "gain" (safety from a volcano, safety for others, etc.). I don't see the endgame. If someone is that into a faith that they would be willing to kill themselves (and others) for a promised afterlife, wouldn't you want it to have some kind of point? That your death would "mean" something to the world you leave behind?

 

I don't get your hang up. They don't care what you think. This is all your opinion of their faith. They deeply believe these things. They don't give a shit whether it makes sense to you or not.

 

Easy solution: Place lard buckets all around high-risk areas. That'll take out the suicide attacks, because you can't get your 72 virgins when you're covered in pig fat.

 

I realize it is a waste of time to try and make "sense" of such a despicable act, maybe I'm just trying to figure out a way this ends. At some point, the frequency of terror attacks will be viewed like hurricanes and tornados.

 

Correct. None of us will ever get the motivation. Ever

 

From what I've read of the two brothers who blew themselves up, they were low rent career criminals prior to their "radicalization." Perhaps that process had less to do with religion per se than with someone offering their existing alienation a source of self-worth. Cons turning to religion of all kinds is hardly an unknown phenomenon.

 

Would love to know how Western democracies, that are historically Christian, are supposed to integrate large numbers of Muslim immigrants.