Both of those articles link to Information Liberation as their source.
Maybe they turn to terrorism because some Americans are racist assholes to them?
So if a Syrian refugee was a racist asshole to you, you’d turn to terrorism?
A more apt analogy would be if he were to emigrate to Syria and find himself surrounded by anti-American assholes.
Indeed.
If I left my country to a vaunted land of the free where I was a minority, I wouldn’t go right to terrorism.
But if I was surrounded by a country that distrusted me and looked at me sideways at the McDonald’s or tailed me while I was shopping at the mall. Or moved to the other side of the street when I passed them. Or called me racial slurs. Or if their news was constantly calling my people terrorists, or drains on society, or unMiddle-Eastern, I might start to wonder if maybe I wasn’t welcome. Maybe over time I’d start to resent and hate them. Maybe I’d meet other American refugees with similar experiences who believed more radical things than I did and I’d start listening to them.
And after that, who knows? Maybe it would be too much one day when I was just trying to walk home from work and someone shoved me off the sidewalk and yelled “go home, American dog” for the fifth time that week for the hundredth week in a row, I’d snap.