Quote Originally Posted by World's End Stella View Post
Possibly a great many of them are, especially the foot soldiers.

But not all of them, of course. I could use a term other than nutter if you like? the disaffected? The social outcasts? The psychotic?

Anyone who blows himself up in a theatre amongst teen age girls and their parents clearly has something very wrong with them.
But you say yourself that believing it is right to fight nonbelievers for the sake of Islamic rule is a credible reading of the Quran. We know this because you say the Quran "certainly does have passages which encourage this sort of behavior".

So why would you then say anyone who follows that interpretation "clearly has something very wrong with them"? It is their entirely credible (by your own admission) interpretation of a book containing what they believe is the immutable words of God.