Polls regularly show that across the west and MidEast, Muslims who have never directly participated in Jihad or terrorism support it by a large % and support its most extreme manifestations. The peaceful muslim you see in WalMart or in your office, when given the “high” sign, the right sign, can immediately turn into a jihadist.
This goes back to your central point. Their hate-filled youth and education reinforced by hate-filled adulthood.
In the case of Noor-—not given a “sign” per se, but rather TRIGGERED by a highly-charge situation in which he was confronted in seconds by several dynamics of the hate ingrained in him and to which he is sworn to act on: woman in public not covered, barely clad woman for his experience, impudent woman not “knowing her place”, an INFIDEL blaspheming Allah...a conflation of things that, to Noor, militated the murder of the female.
Good points. One wonders - how many hundreds or (more likely) thousands of Muslim fanatics are waiting in the wings?
You hit the nail on the head - excellent post.