[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Z

I'm getting increasingly pissed off reading government babble like "we need to come up with a strategy to counter radicalisation and understand how people come to be radicalised" (paraphrasing) - 1) idiots are as old as time itself 2) the internet is still in the Wild West stage 3) no army can stop an idea 4) the Middle East is going through what Catholics and Protestants went through several centuries ago in Western Europe 5) there's no such thing as a 'strategy' against people going somewhere of their own accord.

These women chose to go there. Perhaps they don't quite understand what they're getting themselves into, or perhaps they completely understand. It doesn't really matter why they went - they took their children with them and it's unlikely all (or any) of them will be found alive. Sons will become soldiers and daughters will become wives/slaves. The ISIS movement is a bright light in a dark room and the people fluttering towards it are moths who don't understand why they're being fried when they land.

The only thing that the government can do is to close our borders to anyone who makes the decision to go there and make it clear that if you go, you're not coming back at all. Scare tactics are the only thing that will stop people from going. It's hard to know whether these women are victims or criminals, it's a very morally grey area. We don't know their motivations. Perhaps they were lied to or perhaps they fervently agree with the message being spread.

I'm not sure anyone knows what's going on anymore, a few years ago it was said it was foreign policy and the war which everyone in the west was 100% for (:/) but those radicalised here know we didn't want it.
They're desecrating their own history as we did, that's an idea that still rumbles on today.
It could be the romanticised image of a motherland', a desire to help relatives, misinformation and lies, social and or religious manipulation.
The same tactics are used to get kids to join our army so it figures it will work to employ the same tactics.