I think you’re right Norm.
They hate the West with a passion.
God knows why. It’s where they got their wealth.
Mental illness. Mental illness magnified by group think. It feeds on itself and grows.
It is a classic propaganda technique: play to the fears of the unstable elements. Worked for Gobels. Worked well then, works well now.
You get a few charismatic types into power, they gain followers, their followers claim everyone else is bad/evil/sick/insert doubleplus ungood thing here. People, being sheep ny nature then follow so as to not be left out of the popular club. After a while they grow to believe whatever because they have themselves become as insane as their leaders.
End result: 150 million dead and counting.
There may be any number of different reasons. I think many still feel guilty about colonialism. They feel guilty for "taking advantage " of their less fortunate brothers in the third world. Misery loves company, so they figure, in order to be fair, they feel they must destroy their own country, so we are ALL miserable, not just them. Screw them, one and all.