I, too, feel the grief of the families who now realize that it was their son's who bombed London. The shame, the guilt and the despair must be horrible.

It seems so much like gang recruitment. Older boys (young men) recruiting disenfranchised youth to join them in criminal activity. In fact, I now view Jihadists in the same way I view the Mafia, the Red Circle Gang, The Crips, etc. All of these groups found fertile ground in countries with immigrant children who found it hard to find their place in a new society. This is certainly organized crime.

What else do Jihadists have in common with other gangs?