The why and the wherefore.

One of the distinct and most disturbing features of the ISIS phenomenon is that it is not unique and has many offshoots around the area of the Middle East spreading down into Africa.
A common denominator is that it flies under the Jihadist wing of extreme Muslim orthodoxy and attracts the young from many disparate, disadvantaged communities who feel dis-empowered and unable to carry any weight within their own society.
Historically its been a claim, of any working class section in any society and could have made down through the ages but it is  brought into focus these days by the ease of enhanced communication.
The internet binds people in many ways and one of the claims made against the internet is that individuals doesn't communicate any more with the person closest to them but instead, with people who share opinions, (often diametrically at odds with people in ones own close group, including family), opinions which dissemble the unity which rubbing shoulders with one-another brings. 
The issue I feel, which has alienated many people, young and old is the effect that 'globalisation' has had on all of us.
Its potential to bi-pass 'national economies' to the detriment of those in the local economy. 
Its potential to discriminate against the local work force, fielding out employment to low cost societies in other parts of the world, removing the jobs and the opportunities within the local economy, effecting the youth who see a life long cul de sac ahead of them and therefore become desperate.
The cement which binds some of these people, other than their financial plight is the religious argument.  The major global player, America, is, seen by many Muslims to have interfered in conflicts specific to Muslim countries therefore the harm done is shared amongst all Muslims.
The marginalised, alienated youth rise to the call of Jihad and we should be very concerned as these extreme movement spreads through corrupt, ill ruled, elitist societies that are so prevalent in Africa.
With such an extensive base they could reek havoc on everyone.           

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