The more freedom we have, the more painful our loser status becomes.<\/p>\n
Washington Post<\/a>: <\/p>\n By the time he came up with the idea of bombing a Taylor Swift concert, Beran Aliji\u2019s young life had completely broken down. In July, amid a self-described mental crisis, the 19-year-old Austrian abruptly quit his job as a factory apprentice and isolated himself in his apartment, obsessing, as he later told police, about his own death.<\/p>\n With no money or prospects, and in lieu of close friendships, he began to immerse himself in a virtual world of violent videos and secret chatrooms devoted to the Islamic State…<\/p>\n Like the Austrian suspect, the man accused of ramming a vehicle through crowds of New Year\u2019s revelers on Bourbon Street appears to have self-radicalized after a string of personal crises, including divorces, a job loss and financial insolvency…<\/p>\n \u201cThese are bitter, angry people,\u201d said Bruce Riedel, a counterterrorism expert and 30-year veteran of the CIA. \u201cHere\u2019s a classic case of someone who converted to Islam, had two failed marriages, serious financial problems, and he finds now a cause to justify his life and his rage,\u201d he said, referring to Jabbar, who, in a videotaped message, contemplated killing his family before opting to carry out an Islamic State-style terrorist attack….<\/p>\n Intelligence officials are expressing alarm over rising cases of self-radicalization among teenagers who, like Aliji, are avid consumers of Islamic State videos and sometimes see terrorists as heroes and role models…<\/p>\n Aliji took multiple selfies with his phone camera, posing with knives and a machete he purchased online. He later told police that he took the photos because he \u201cwanted to be cool and brag about it.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The more freedom we have, the more painful our loser status becomes. Washington Post: By the time he came up with the idea of bombing a Taylor Swift concert, Beran Aliji\u2019s young life had completely broken down. In July, amid … Continue reading