Cowboy #47.

I think you are on to something with the Mohammed Atta parallel. Atta was also frustrated with a lack of career success and not finding a wife. In response, he turned to radical islam as an adult convert.

When people run into major personal and career problems they sometimes turn to religion. In the case of Christianity they often clean up their act and turn their life around. Converts to Islam can do this as well. However, there is a dangerously high percentage of adult converts to militant Islam that come to believe that they have a religious sanction to make war on non-moslems.

That is why I think Islam itself is the problem, and not just a few atypical fanatics.

There just has to be something wrong with a religion where, the more faithful the follower, the more dangerous he becomes.