I think this is a reasonable interpretation, but those who disagree with you might point to a large number of instances where extremists&#x27; political grievances are only intelligible in the context of religious beliefs derived from the Quran.<p>For example, the Tsarnaev brothers were born in Kyrgyzstan and raised and educated in the West, yet they committed acts of violence against the United States in retaliation for its foreign policy in Afghanistan and Iraq.<p>What would have motivated them to commit these acts on behalf of Afghanistan and Iraq, countries to which they had no personal attachment, except for their religious belief that jihad was justified after the invasion of Muslim lands? In other words, what renders a person susceptible to &quot;being sold&quot; Islamic demagoguery other than the content of Islam itself?