Topic: Why are jihadis so dumb?
Anonymous A started this discussion 6 years ago #92,452
Question in headline.
tteh !IAMGAYLOL joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 7 minutes later[^] [v] #1,049,117
Reminds me of the classic, Abu Hajaar, fighting for IS against the YPG. (Disclaimer: he goes down at the end, but you don't really see anything except him falling.) What is wrong with you, Abu Hajaar?
Good job, but you roasted us too.
GET DOWN, ABU HAJAAR!
What are you DOING, Abu Hajaar?
The actual footage without the ridiculous audio is here, but I like the edited version.
(Edited 42 seconds later.)
tteh !IAMGAYLOL double-posted this 6 years ago, 8 minutes later, 16 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,049,119
Also, perhaps the funniest thing I've ever read on the topic:
This assessment is consistent with a growing body of literature that has come to recognize that savvy, skilled, sophisticated domestic terrorists—persons like Mohamed Atta, one of the leaders of the 9/11 attacks—are the exception to the U.S. jihadist community.
As John Mueller and Mark Stewart conclude in their analysis of 50 post-9/11 U.S. jihadist case studies, the vast majority of individuals examined could fittingly be described as “incompetent, ineffective, unintelligent, idiotic, ignorant, inadequate, unorganized, misguided, muddled, amateurish, dopey, unrealistic, moronic, irrational,
and foolish.” Moreover, as reflected in our “none (‘jihad’)” group coding, some individuals expressed only superficial sympathy for a terrorist organization, instead possibly seeking to aggrandize their violent deeds. Citing the example of two Western [Foreign Fighters] who purchased Islam for Dummies from Amazon before departing for Syria in 2014 to join ISIL, terrorism expert Mia Bloom notes that many recent recruits drawn to global jihad “[do] not even know the most basic tenets of their own faith.”
(src Trends in the Draw of Americans to Foreign Terrorist Organizations from 9/11 to Today)As John Mueller and Mark Stewart conclude in their analysis of 50 post-9/11 U.S. jihadist case studies, the vast majority of individuals examined could fittingly be described as “incompetent, ineffective, unintelligent, idiotic, ignorant, inadequate, unorganized, misguided, muddled, amateurish, dopey, unrealistic, moronic, irrational,
and foolish.” Moreover, as reflected in our “none (‘jihad’)” group coding, some individuals expressed only superficial sympathy for a terrorist organization, instead possibly seeking to aggrandize their violent deeds. Citing the example of two Western [Foreign Fighters] who purchased Islam for Dummies from Amazon before departing for Syria in 2014 to join ISIL, terrorism expert Mia Bloom notes that many recent recruits drawn to global jihad “[do] not even know the most basic tenets of their own faith.”