They're Muslims. Hello! They're M-U-S-L-I-M-S. Why is anyone surprised they wanted to murder innocent people?
Why do people act as if this is shocking? Didn't we learn this lesson the hard way years ago?
One of my favorite contemporary writers is Theodore Dalrymple. Dr. Dalrymple is a British psychiatrist who has had on-the-ground experience in numerous Islamic societies where he served as physician in several hospitals.
I posted one of his essays here which David Brooks of the N.Y. Times cited as the best journal article of 2004.
In that essay he discusses his clinical observations of many who have converted to Islam. He comments on the high number of muslims in British prisons. BUT, he states that all the conversion propaganda there is addressed to the huge number of Jamaican inmates. Why? Let me quote him.
"As for Muslim prosolytism in the prison - and Muslim literature has been insinuated into nooks and crannies there far more thoroughly than any Christian literature - it is directed mainly at the Jamaican prisoners. It answers their need for an excuse to go straight while not at the same time surrendering to the morality of a society that they believe has wronged them deeply. Indeed, conversion to Islam is THEIR REVENGE UPON THAT SOCIETY, for they sense that their newfound religion is fundamentallly opposed to it. By conversion, therefore, THEY KILL TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE."
To me, this is the explanation (based on psychiatry and clinical observation) that explains the conversion phenomenon best.
If anyone would like me to send them this essay I'd be glad to. E-mail me at: t.sink@att.net