Religion of Convenience

When dirty bomber Jose Padilla was arrested in 2002, I started to wonder: Why in the world would a lifetime loser like this embrace such a strict religion?

Guys like this have absolutely no chance of ever adhering to the discipline that fundamentalist Islam demands. And, who in Islam would want scum like this as their public face?

The it finally occurred to me. It's all about hate. Islam and losers like Padilla agree that they hate their fellow man. If fundamentalist Islam were to conquer the west, losers like Padilla would be among the first to be marched before the firing squad, or to have his neck on the beheader block. But, guys like Padilla can see no further than their hate.

That seems to describe the French rioters as well.

[W]hile American gangs like the Hispanic Mara Salvatrucha, the Jamaican Posse, and the Crips or Bloods are racist (anti-white, anti-Hispanic or both, as the case may be), violent, and antisocial, their exclusive goals are money and turf control. That is also true of their French (or British) confreres, but in the latter cases Islamist beliefs play or could soon play a decisive justifying role.