Comment by SirSavary
1 year ago
Marauding terrorist force that lays claim to an area != the people who inhabit that area*
* I understand that they also recruited locally; that doesn't change the fact that there were thousands of Europeans in ISIS' ranks, along with fighters from many other nationalities.
>ISIS was a bunch of European guys who got radicalized and then travelled to the middle east
>there were thousands of Europeans in ISIS' ranks, along with fighters from many other nationalities
Why did you start off with such strong statements but then retreat to this one after you're challenged? Is ISIS a bunch of European guys or not?
> Why did you start off with such strong statements but then retreat to this one after you're challenged?
There's no retreating in my comment -- it's a fact that they sourced people from everywhere. I threw an asterisk on there at the last second because I wanted to show good faith; there's nothing nefarious about it.
> Is ISIS a bunch of European guys or not?
It was definitely a bunch of European guys, and Asian guys, and American guys, etc... my point was that ISIS was a group of people from around the globe and not an ideology endemic to the region.
See my other comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39153097