The Raging Insult Motivating Slaughter

"I had a job waiting for me and marriage to get started. [But now] I feel like a prisoner, only not in a cage, in London. A person imprisoned & controlled by security service men, stopping me from living my new life in my birthplace & country, Kuwait."
Mohammed Emwazi, London, England; aka "Jihadi John", Syria, Islamic State jihadist

"There was an extremely strong resemblance. This is making me feel fairly certain that this is the same person. The guy's got a hood on his head. It's very, very difficult."
"The Mohammed that I knew was extremely kind, extremely gentle, extremely soft-spoken, was the most humble young person that I knew."
When we treat people as if they are outsiders, they will inevitably feel like outsiders, and they will look for belonging elsewhere."
"Mohammed was quite incensed by his treatment."
"This is a young man who was ready to exhaust every single kind of avenue within the machinery of the state to bring a change for his personal situation. [In the end he felt] actions were taken to criminalize him and he had no way to do something against these actions."
Asim Qureshi, research director, Muslim rights group CAGE

From ordinary schoolboy to world's most wanted terrorist

"[Forget the usual ideas that] these guys are all impoverished, that they're coming from deprived backgrounds."
"They are by and large upwardly mobile people, well educated."
Shiraz Maher, King's College radicalization centre

Goodness gracious, wouldn't you know it, that old colonizing spirit at it again, identifying the lesser-privileged and reminding them that their status is that of an unequal, almost-deserving dependent of Great Britain. Offending the dignity of those who migrate from their countries of origin in the near East to the West, to find a 'better life' of economic and social opportunities for themselves, away from violent tribal and sectarian animosities and government oppression.

And so, a young man whose family removed from Kuwait to London when he was a child, enabling him to attend college and obtain a degree in computer science, felt appalled at the treatment he suffered at the suspicious hands of the Dutch and British intelligence agents who viewed his travels askance, questioning him about his real motivations, suspecting that he had within him the active ingredients of jihad terrorism bubbling to the surface.

And weren't they spot on? This young man who was humble and gentle, gracious and kind appears to have been transformed into a ragingly brutal murderer sans conscience. In his introduction on the world stage via Islamic State 'public relations' videos he is seen personally conducting progressive slaughters of the most gruesomely odious variety. No crucifixions, no disembowelment, no immolation, but the crude sawing off of victims' heads.

Not his fault, though, clearly not; the West had it coming for disrespecting his dignity.

The polite, soft-spoken young man so miserably disappointed by the treatment he was exposed to that he jettisoned his middle-class lifestyle in London for the preferential experience of a guerrilla battlefield where attacks against ethnic and religious minorities were justified; not merely questioning these people under suspicion by ISIS for their outrageous gall in assuming they would be permitted to live in peace among Islamists, but raping the women and enslaving children, and slaughtering men.

Jihadi John's solution to his rage over being unjustly singled out for questioning, is to butcher all those who offend his sense of propriety in fanatical Islam. Not his fault, though, just ask Mr. Qureshi; he was driven to it through his despair at the insolent manner in which he was treated when all he wanted to do was travel freely in Africa and the Middle East without the nosy interference of Western intelligence and their infuriating inferences.