Chapter 2: Understanding Motivations: From Pre-Disposing Risk to Direct Motivators

As the threat from HGIT has steadily become more apparent, Western society has struggled to come up with convincing answers for why it is happening. Why would someone born and raised in the West choose to blow themselves up in order to kill complete strangers? What is it that they hope to achieve? Moving beyond simple, kneejerk responses (‘they hate us’/‘they hate freedom’…) it soon becomes clear that there is no simple answer. Rather, there are multiple, interacting factors which combine together in certain situations to create a lethal mix…