True, some young European Muslims have traveled to Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq; some went as far as Yemen and Somalia, and came back as hardened radicals, soldiers in a war against a West that, in their view, dishonors Islam. As the young Muslim Briton Mohammed Sidique Khan put it (speaking in a heavy Yorkshire accent), he participated in the London Underground bombings “to avenge my Muslim brothers and sisters.”
事实上，一些欧洲穆斯林曾远赴阿富汗，巴基斯坦和伊拉克；另外一些曾东渡也门和索马里拜师学艺，学成归来后，他们成为坚定的激进分子和反抗西方的战士，在他们眼中，西方使伊斯兰蒙羞。在此引用一位年轻的英国穆斯林穆罕默德·斯迪克·翰（他参加了伦敦地铁爆炸案，操一口浓重的约克郡口音）的话语：“（我这样做）是为我死去的穆斯林兄弟姐妹报仇。”