Ian Robinson wrote: "We are, by and large, a secular culture, materialistic, spiritually shallow, sexually obsessed, and devoted to the pursuit of personal pleasure and satisfaction....Frankly, that's pretty much the way I like it....It's called freedom and it's the only thing we've come up with on the planet that actually works for human beings."
But that's the (urp) "culture" that the Canadian jihadis were born and raised in, and it didn't "work" for them. I generally like Ian Robinson, but he's seemingly forgotten that Western Civilization grew from Judeo-Christian cultural roots. Canada has already gone much farther than the USA has in cutting off the roots and trying to live on the fruits.
But not many people will struggle and sacrifice, give their "blood, sweat, and tears," strive, fight, or die for a "secular, materialistic, spiritually shallow" culture. It cannot fight to defend itself; it doesn't even care to have enough children to guarantee another generation.
The Canuck-jihadis believed in their Allah-Fubar, and that's a horror, but it's a strong and demanding horror: one that calls people out of their driveling secular pleasures into something (hellaciously) greater.
It's "something." And you can't fight something with nothing.
I do not have the numbers, but my personal observation at the Kroger tells me that the immigration is mostly male. And absent that, the crap American culture / crime life is where a lot of these unconnected Mexican males will end up. Not Sunday Mass.