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"Terrorists Proving Harder to Profile" via Jihad Watch:

The demographics of those being arrested are so diverse that many European counterterrorism officials and analysts say they have given up trying to predict what sorts of people are most likely to become terrorists. Age, sex, ethnicity, education and economic status have become more and more irrelevant.

Oh, I can think of one common characteristic.

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Josh Scholar

"ZUTPHEN, Netherlands -- On the surface, the young Dutch Moroccan mother looked like an immigrant success story ... Prosecutors said she had covered up plans for a terrorist attack and wrote a letter offering to sacrifice herself and her infant son as martyrs."

She wanted to kill innocent people, including her own infant son. Before I heard of Islam, I would have thought it impossible for there to be monsters like that, at least impossible for there to be more than one or two.

Josh Scholar

"One guiding principle for terrorist groups is to always maintain the psychological edge and the upper hand by doing things that are surprising to the enemy," he said. "So you'll see the use of a child, the use of a woman."

Wonderful. Now we have to be on the look out for children blowing themselves up.

You know, that's how the Iranians fought the Iraqis. They gave explosives to little children and taught them to throw themselves under tanks. There is still a museum devoted to these little martyrs.

My question is how people who do such things can stand themselves. Where I come from, such crimes would be so shameful I can't imagine avoiding suicide in such a case.

Isaac Schrödinger

"Before I heard of Islam, I would have thought it impossible for there to be monsters like that, at least impossible for there to be more than one or two."

There are, sadly, millions. We don't hear about them because, fortunately, most of them never get the "golden opportunity".

Josh Scholar

There are, sadly, millions. We don't hear about them because, fortunately, most of them never get the "golden opportunity".

I suppose it's simple to make an "opportunity" if you live near any possible target. And I guess thousands have made that opportunity to blow up innocent people in Iraq. And Israeli jails are full of thousands who tried to make that opportunity in Israel... And every poll of Muslims show that there are hundreds of millions of Muslims who approve of indiscriminate slaughter (ie terrorist acts).

So yes, after a little thought, I guess I have to admit that what you wrote is fair. There are millions.

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