"Honestly, I feel anger towards my own people. I grew up in the middle east, at a young age I was exposed to the Bullshit ideologies that exist within middle eastern society.
People out there don't care enough to get up and do something about their withering homes, their lack of funded education, the rise in crime etc. Instead they blame these things on the west, and more specifically Israel.
The guy that chose not to go to college when he had the chance to do so suddenly finds him in the shitty part of town, with 7 kids and drives a cab all day. But when asked why he doesn't do anything he'll puff up his chest, square his shoulders and confidently say something along the lines of "it's America and Israel that fucked us, we Arabs are proud and our time will come".
The thing that I was exposed to as a child wasn't religious extremism, it was social elitism. As an Arab myself I can tell you that a huge majority of Arabs living in the middle east sincerely believe that if you're not one of them then you're a level below them. I absolutely hate it when apologist Muslims come out of the woods every time a tragic event like this occurs and say "but not all muslims".
If you live in the middle east and deny what I just said you're only lying to yourself. It's a majority of people who have this stupid point of view, and it's easy to warp their reality into picking up a gun and shooting innocents, or convincing them into suicide bombing themselves in a crowd or bus. When you have a bunch of people who honestly believe they're better than everyone else, you can make them do whatever the hell you want.
Why else would people go willingly join terror organizations?
I mean for fucks sake, we don't even like eachother. Jordanians, Lebanese, saudis, Iraqis etc etc all hate eachother. And within our own countries we hate eachother and do nothing but show off our blood lines. "I'm from this family, I have more right than you" type mentality actually exists in this day and age.
I honestly don't blame anyone for thinking negatively of muslims, a lot of people I've met in the state I currently live in have never met a muslim, I can't blame them for thinking that we're all violent idiots.
I'm sorry for ranting, I'm on my phone so the formatting might be terrible. It just makes my blood boil every time I hear about tragic events like this being caused in the name of religion. "
