I will say that while I don’t agree with any of senior Walker’s points, I do understand some of his angst – although the comment “humiliating Police State” made the phrase “drama queen” pop into mind.

And I’m no psychiatrist, but I’m gonna guess that our Mr. Walker has some chick issues…

Pity, that.

you might be right about people growing up in a nation that was always ruled autocratically, but I believe you miss the point about Muslims living in free and democratic Europe, might it be Britain or Germany (where I am from).

A young Muslim developing fundamentalist zeal is the same as an angry white boy turning Nazi or a puzzled adolescent European becoming Jihadist warrior.

It seems always to arise when someone cannot fulfill the expectations of the people one ordinarily lives and grows up with, because the larger society has different expectations and values or does not offer the social status his close circle expects him to receive. Sometimes it is more personal, truly within oneself and the family one grows up with, sometimes it is a larger, e.g. Muslim minorities in Europe.

It is pretty much common in other surroundings. In the same respect it explains the large number of young german middle-class men who became Nazis during the breakdown of german society and economy in the 20’s and 30’s, when times did not allow them to live the bourgeois lifes family and society expected them to live at their birth. Nazism was never so much a worker’s thing.

For an American this is perhaps to much a “social” explanation not focussed enough on personal character and virtues.

Yet there is one very remarkable thing about it: it just grows out. It is common for boys to grow out of the Neonazi movement when they finally have a girl-friend, a job, and ultimately a family live.

The same will apply for the Islamic frenzy. The demographics are actually n o t in their favour, because getting a job, founding a family means integrating, as the young (female) muslima are actually much more reasonable and down to earth and willing to integrate. As they look for the same virtues, it leaves the unwilling to adapt on a dead-end road.

The challenge for the society is of course not to allow them to take over, not even to bow to their ideas and to discourage them, limit the harm they do to other people as much as possible, and – most of all – to keep cool until it is grown out.

There are of course other things to it, among the behaviour of the majority, but the above is the core challenge.