The drivel espoused by a cultist like Bin Laden is useless if the underlying culture stops providing a breeding ground.The culture provides a breeding ground when there is no path to success, or recognition, or admiration, except by learning to be an extraordinarily ruthless business man who passes the hurdles of entrance by ingratiating himself with power players OR laying himself down for Allah.
The decision to seek _some_ sort of fulfillment for oneself, while living in a culture that teaches you every day that the individual is nothing, is the breeding ground of desperate men who will buy _any_ line of metaphysics that will give them some personal hope of success. That's how cults work, and Bin Laden's cult is no different.
It doesn't _matter_ what the religous invective used is -- because that is the rationalization of opportunity; the underlying decision that natters is to Be Something in a culture that requires you to Be Nothing.
If an economic shift were to occur which would enable the youth to succeed in moving forward and getting somewhere, for example, as entrepreneurs, building an infrastructure, selling plumbing, starting generating stations or whatever the nation would support as a prosperous business, and the theme of "You can become a success!" were tied to secular winsd instead of "..by jumping off to Allah!" you would see the cults of terrorism shrink away.
But that would require the iron fist of radical religous-based government be proed open a little first.
The Taliban has demonstrated on their way up they are more than willing to kill to acquire and preserve power, and they do not much care if the people they send to Allah are husbands, daughters, wives or mothers.
Given that sort of obsessive fanatic control AND a very low-grade economic environment, I'd join a gang, if I were a youth. I'd hope and pray to be tapped for a meaningful mission. Because how else would my life ever acquire any meaning?
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