I only read the last three pages, but has anyone pointed out yet that this guy wasn't religious, never went to mosque, and was
completely batshyt insane?
It appears Bouhlel also had serious mental health challenges. His father said he suffered from nervous breakdowns in which he "broke everything," and that he believed his son's mental health deteriorated after his son separated from his wife.
By all accounts Bouhlel had a volatile personality. In March he was given a six-month suspended prison sentence after throwing a wooden pallet at a driver after a traffic accident. According to reports in the French media, a neighbor said that Bouhlel was so angered when his wife left him that he "defecated all over the place" and shredded his daughter's teddy bear.
The reports are that he'd never even spoken about Isis until literally days before the attacks.
It looks like
a bunch of former secular military operatives from Saddam's government are
taking advantage of f'd-up people to
advance their goal of destabilizing Iraq/Syria's "West"-supported governments to the point where they can retake control of the region just
like they had when Saddam was in power.
Yet useful idiots out here making long-winded theories about historical Islam that have little to do with history and almost nothing to do with
Saddam's old operatives who are running this show.
There's obviously a religious component to this thing too, but it's relatively minor - which is why 99.9% of Muslims in the countries that didn't have major previous ongoing conflict aren't doing anything for Isis at all. A lot of these smart/dumb theories struggle with the basic facts that:
1. The vast majority of Muslims have nothing to do with this.
2. The guys who are doing it are
rarely the most religious ones.
3. In virtually every major conflict driving the violence, the actual reasons behind the conflict which actually led up to the conflict are well documented, and almost never have anything to do with Islamic theology but are all about reactions to invasions, inter-tribal conflicts, and political power plays.
