Here is an interview with a terrorism researcher about the recent terrorist attacks in Belgium. Key paragraph:
Testosterone also has a significant influence here, given the average age of Belgian jihadists. If you remove the beards, the Korans, and the black flags from most ISIS propaganda videos, you are left with something that resembles certain US hip hop videos! Big cars, guns everywhere, gang members posing together. In our globalized world, the violence of ISIS is not that remote from Hollywood movies like Mad Max or Japanese mangas like Hokuto No Ken. ISIS is trying to evoke the Islamic Middle Ages, but the Toyota vehicles and the Nike sneakers tell us something else.
When you combine medieval minds with space-age weaponry, you get savagery on an unprecedented scale. Just wait until ISIS gets nuclear weapons.
