In countries ripe with poverty and desperation it's easy to connect the dots for foreign fighters flocking to ISIS.

However sometimes pressured youth in non Muslim countries like France, Canada, Spain even the U.S. try to make a totally different life for themselves, almost like spiting society by fighting here. Many often find it's more than they bargained for, but then again, once your in, the only way out or to desert often involves decapitation.

I don't think many take that into account along with lost citizenship status from their parent countries to spend the rest of their lives in a war zone.

Originally Posted by Yossarian

In countries ripe with poverty and desperation it's easy to connect the dots for foreign fighters flocking to ISIS.

However sometimes pressured youth in non Muslim countries like France, Canada, Spain even the U.S. try to make a totally different life for themselves, almost like spiting society by fighting here. Many often find it's more than they bargained for, but then again, once your in, the only way out or to desert often involves decapitation.

I don't think many take that into account along with lost citizenship status from their parent countries to spend the rest of their lives in a war zone.

If you see the video, this former "undercover jihadi" Mubin Shaikh raises some remarkable points:

(a) Muslims in the western countries struggle with identity issues and the majority white culture is hostile to the Islamic culture in those countries so they try to search for their belonging and join the extremists like ISIS

(b) Contrary to the Muslims in western countries joining the ISIS, the non Muslim westerners themselves join ISIS, particularly because of broken home background who tend to be detached from the society, and make matters worse he claims, the western popular culture such as youngsters who listen to rap music are increasingly becoming violent and join extremists.

Any thoughts on this?