The ABC News report contains the information that one of the accused brothers. Cherif Kouachi, aspired to being a rapper. He wasn’t so successful and was persuaded by militant clerics to become a terrorist instead. Such revelations may cause us to pause as we turn ourselves inside out about religion and political ideology. Many psychiatrists will say that the core of a jihadist is the simple human need to be somebody. It may be simple but we see it time and again. What am I to become? How will I make the world pay attention to me?
