Of course he was just a criminal with no radical background. The whole approach in the West is fundamentally flawed. Except for Trump’s solution, which caused him to be excoriated by damn near everyone, including stalwart “conservatives” like Mike Pence and Newt Gingrich. The West approaches it as a terrorist and jihadi issue. As if we just need ways to spot this jihadis and fight the ideology. They embrace the ideology because they are already f-ed up people. Islam took root and flourished in these regions for the same way it takes root and flourishes in prison. IMO, Islam is very bad, even demonic, but Islam is the way it is because these people— out of which Islam grew— are the way they are. Not vice versa. But having said that, Islam provides these congenitally flawed people’s with justification for their evil. But still, it’s not as if they’d be like nice and productive South Koreans if not for Islam. My guess is that ultimately the problem is due to tribalism and consanguinity. But whatever is at the root, the stupid ideas— like the one Gingrich suggested last night about a Shariah loyalty quiz— will miss most of the dangerous people from the Islamic world who are neither radical nor ideological but still f-ed products of a dysfunctional consanguineous tribal land.
So when Donald Trump comes out and calls for a ban on people from Muslim countries and remarks, of the cuff, that there’s something there that is a problem, they are not right, and he doesn’t know what it is but there’s something going on, I realize that billionaires have an ability to see 6 moves ahead which mere mortals quickly judge as stupid bigotry.
Sorry, typos. This= these. Way= reason.
The governments are playing the "plausible deniability" game with deadly consequences. Sure, there could be jihadis, lots and lots of jihadis, amongst the few muzz slime immigrants who aren't jihadis, but there's no way they are going to look at the problem or follow up on the concerns of average citizens who call them about suspicious activity.