No, that's just radicalism. The culture itself, as far as I know... Well, they're very much about how one person's actions reflects on their family, because over there it does. If your cousin does the shop keeper down the road a bad turn, you're definitely gonna hear about it if you try to buy something from the man. In fact, if you were to ask around some of these families where one of their household became a member of the terrorists, they will probably do one of two things: tell you that person doesn't exist, or say every horrible thing of that person they can think of and that they're no longer welcome in their house.
However, a good number of these radicals are people who have lost their families one way or another. Naturally, they look for someone to blame. And the local terrorist cell leaders, being the opportunistic bastards they are, will gladly point out Western Civilization as being the reason for their downfall. It won't matter what really happened, these guys come up with some sort of cockamamie reason that is hardly even rational. And chances are they'll buy into it because they don't know who and what we really are. No, I mean they really don't! All they know is crap that comes out of a TV they may have seen sometimes along with whatever that recruiter pours in their unwitting heads.
(This is why the Taliban destroyed as much radio, television, and other sundry A/V and broadcasting equipment as they could without crippling their own operations - they wanted to make certain that their 'truth' was the only one available.)
However, a good number of these radicals are people who have lost their families one way or another. Naturally, they look for someone to blame. And the local terrorist cell leaders, being the opportunistic bastards they are, will gladly point out Western Civilization as being the reason for their downfall. It won't matter what really happened, these guys come up with some sort of cockamamie reason that is hardly even rational. And chances are they'll buy into it because they don't know who and what we really are. No, I mean they really don't! All they know is crap that comes out of a TV they may have seen sometimes along with whatever that recruiter pours in their unwitting heads.
(This is why the Taliban destroyed as much radio, television, and other sundry A/V and broadcasting equipment as they could without crippling their own operations - they wanted to make certain that their 'truth' was the only one available.)