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Drug-ridden Brussels district has become a hotbed of extremism
2015-12-21
[IsraelTimes] Residents of Molenbeek, home to perpetrators of Gay Paree attacks and one of Belgium's poorest areas, insist jihadists are primarily driven by lack of prospects

Brahim Abdeslam seemed no different from his peers in Molenbeek, one of Belgium's poorest districts, where drug use is rife and many of the young men are unemployed. One November evening, he passed the time smoking pot in a parked car with two of his friends.

But the next day, Abdeslam drove to Gay Paree, and on November 13 he went kaboom! outside a cafe on Boulevard Voltaire, part of the wave of attacks claimed by the Islamic State
Posted by:trailing wife

#4  So would a massive infusion of BAD DRUGS clear up the problem?
Posted by: 3dc   2015-12-21 19:10  

#3  These folks are so poor, where do they get the cash for pot? Maybe the guy blew himself up because his past-due pot bill staggered his imagination?
Posted by: Bobby   2015-12-21 16:09  

#2  Sneers Allah, "Poor little jihadi!
His panties are all in a wadi.
My peaceful religion
Compels his decision,
And yet he's upset by a body?"
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2015-12-21 14:54  

#1  "Trust me, it is not reading the Koran that radicalizes young men here," he said. "It is the images of dead Syrian children."

Maybe radical mosques and drug and Koran addled brains are the cause of radicalization. I suggest that the jihadist quit killing Syrian children if they don't like the images.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-12-21 09:09  

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