France Islam Expert: They were already radicals!

'Born Again Muslims' - "Seventy Percent of Radical Muslim Terrorists ​Have Scant Knowledge of Islam" --  Olivier Roy is wrong ...

5-31-17, Olivier ​Roy argues that appx 70 percent of young Muslim terrorists have scant knowledge of Islam. They are “radical” before even choosing Islam. He dubs them “born again Muslims” who lead libertine lives before their sudden conversion to violent Islamic fundamentalism. — Haaretz

According to Olivier Roy, these young Muslims choose the Islamic State’s “narrative” just because it’s the only radical one available. He says, that in the past they might have been drawn to “far-left extremism.” Well, there is an Islamic past, some 1400 years of it, easily available for study, and Roy might discover that numerous Muslims during all those centuries behaved very much like the “Islamized” radicals today, conducting Jihad through whatever means, including especially violence, proved most effective, and determined to continue that Jihad until Infidels were subjugated, and were converted, or killed.

Muslim Terrorists Are Not Violating the Commands of Muhammad
They Are Obeying and Following Them

Roy says these Islamic terrorists were “radical” before “even choosing Islam,” why was it, does he think, that Islam was chosen, why did Islam turn out to be the perfect fit, the right vehicle, for those “radicals” who were hellbent on aggression and destruction, if Islam, so we are often told, preaches peace and tolerance?

Islam does not need to be “radicalized” nor radicals “Islamized” for Muslims to become terrorists. The Qur’an, hadith, and sira supply all the “radicalization” — that is, the inculcated violence and aggression toward Infidels -- that “radicals” require. But there is not a mainstream Islam and another, quite different, “radicalized” Islam. The same texts and teachings are to be found in mainstream mosques and madrasas as in those some describe as preaching, or teaching, a “radicalized” Islam. There may be differences in emphasis and tone in an imam’s khutba, but not in the essence of the message, which is to be found in the same Qur’an, in same Hadith and sira, that all Muslims read.  [..snip] 

Roy is wrong. Abedi was not, as Roy claims, “very much part of the British youth culture he attacked.” Nor was he confused ... More here:
www.jihadwatch.org/2017/05/hugh-fitzgerald-olivier-roy-one-of-frances-top-experts-on-islamic-terrorism-part-ii

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