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>>12276304
You really won't get anywhere trying to understand the "mind of a Muslim extremist", mostly because the issue isn't as atomized and individualistic as the media (whether left or right) would have you believe.
Islamic extremism is a symptom of a larger disease, and to understand what prompts these people to commit such terrible atrocities you must look at the geopolitical conflict that is at play, whether it's Iran vs Saudi Arabia's cold war, or the US-Israel interventions in the region throughout the second half of the 20th century.
There is always a far wider picture to extremism, and you cannot cure a disease without identifying it's roots.