Sgt. Rock
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American ISIS militant Douglas McCain isn’t the only product of Robbinsdale Cooper High School's Class of 1999 to die alongside Islamist radicals in far-off lands. His onetime best friend and classmate Troy Kastigar was killed fighting for the Al-Shabaab terror group in Somalia in 2009.
When the news broke that McCain had been fatally wounded during a battle in Syria, many who knew the 33-year-old immediately expressed shock, sadness and disbelief. Classmates at their New Hope, Minnesota, high school are reeling over the revelation that now they have lost two childhood friends to overseas "holy wars" to which they had no blood or immediate connection. Then came the questions.
How did two well-liked and affable young men take such tragically parallel paths to extremism? What was it that drew them to wars, away from their comfortable socio-economic backgrounds - attending high school in a working class suburb of Minneapolis – to Third World countries ripped apart by bloody conflict. How did they end up fighting other peoples’ wars?
I feel more and more Americans and British will be brain washed by Muslim extremist to fight in their "holy war" and maybe down the road to strike the very country they were raised in.
When the news broke that McCain had been fatally wounded during a battle in Syria, many who knew the 33-year-old immediately expressed shock, sadness and disbelief. Classmates at their New Hope, Minnesota, high school are reeling over the revelation that now they have lost two childhood friends to overseas "holy wars" to which they had no blood or immediate connection. Then came the questions.
How did two well-liked and affable young men take such tragically parallel paths to extremism? What was it that drew them to wars, away from their comfortable socio-economic backgrounds - attending high school in a working class suburb of Minneapolis – to Third World countries ripped apart by bloody conflict. How did they end up fighting other peoples’ wars?
I feel more and more Americans and British will be brain washed by Muslim extremist to fight in their "holy war" and maybe down the road to strike the very country they were raised in.