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Most jihadists in the west are deracinated second or third generation immigrants, some of them not even of a muslim ethnic background. ie. People looking for identity. You can't escape the dynamics of mutual escalation. Terrorism has always been liked this, a militant minority using violence to polarise and manipulate an indifferent majority, see the algerian war with the FLN and the OAS. The difference is people are getting increasingly numb to this, they can't express genuine grief, only spew more prefabricated schismogenetic memes. After 9/11 the dialectic of security has achieved full dominance over everything replacing any notion of political virtue. ''Radical islam'', an assertion of theological truth, threatens a liberal West founded on a disavowal of even the possibility of truth. The liberal left operates within the framework of post 9/11 security discourse as much as the right does, extending this framework to all levels of personal interaction. Identity is created through violence and escalating tribal grudges.