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Teens with messed up lives and a desire to feel accepted have been joining cults and extremist groups for decades. I'm not at all worried that there's going to be thousands or even hundreds of American teens joining ISIS or anything like that. It's just a tragic decision that a few f**k up kids will make.

I think ISIS would send them back in less than a day after having to tolerate annoying teenagers girls talking nonstop.

They attract halfwit dumbasses to join them. Unfortunately, there is a large supply of those in the world today..

well basically some people are deranged and when they see something big going down they like to feel part of it, even if it makes no sense as a coherent ideology. rather than terrorism, i think the mass shootings that occur every now and then in the US are a better analogy to westerners wanting to join isis and kill.

it's also why the same western jihadis get disillusioned so quickly when they end up in the middle of a god forsaken town in eastern syria and realize they actually had no clue what they stepped into.

the actual real hardcore transnational fighters (chechens, etc.) are a product of surrounding troubles in the region.

that said, isis is still playing it up, and they're still going to get whacked for their grandiose claims to spreading "jihad." more and more it seems to me that hubris will get the best of them. and then people will find other excuses to cut themselves, go on shooting sprees, etc.

"for a good time call ahmed" - ISIS