Religion
In reply to the discussion: Religious?? ...............Who Cares?? [View all]DetlefK
(16,423 posts)You are being told that you have the only true religion, the one that is superior to all others.
Having the correct religion means that you have a good life and supremacy.
And yet, despite clearly being supposed to be Allah's darlings, you see how the atheists of the Soviet Union and the Christians of the US divide up the world among them. You see poverty and corruption in the countries of the Middle-East.
You realize, there's something wrong with this world. Things are not as they are supposed to be. So you decide to stand up for Allah and make things right. With the easiest and most obvious tool: violence.
For example, the guy who shot up the gay-club "Pulse": He was gay himself, he was ashamed of it, his family was falling apart, and he thought that killing these people would buy him an automatic ticket into heaven.
Or the european Muslims who join ISIS. It's not just psychos and rapists who join ISIS. There are also people who feel that their life is empty, who feel that the secular european society is not satisfying them. They see it as superficial and vain, their laws as arbitrary and corrupt.
So they look for an alternative: TRUE spirituality. TRUE laws. And they find these things in the extremist interpretation of Islam.