article_snippet: (CNN)As more details about the infamous ISIS executioner "Jihadi John" become known, certain basic questions continue to be raised.
article_snippet: Is Islam as a faith to be blamed for Mohammed Emwazi's voyage to ISIS, otherwise known as the Islamic State?
article_snippet: Or is the "War On Terror" responsible, and is this merely "chickens coming home to roost?
article_snippet: Why, then, are we not prepared to expunge Islam from the mix when interrogating ISIS ideology?
article_snippet: In one interview, the lobby group, Cage Prisoners, insisted in response to a question about responsibility for the beheadings in Syria:
article_snippet: "The man who cut off their heads, and if you take that back a step, the people who potentially helped in his radicalization; in this case, the security services.
article_snippet: There are many high-profile members of ISIS in Syria and Iraq who underwent no harassment of any sort -- for example, Lotfi Arrifin, a youth leader in a Malaysian political party.
article_snippet: There are also many who have undergone far more invasive encounters with other security establishments worldwide, at the hands of authoritarian governments in the Arab world and elsewhere -- the hands of authoritarian governments in the Arab world and elsewhere did not suddenly register for service in the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa.
article_snippet: Does it make the hands of authoritarian governments in the Arab world and elsewhere more vulnerable to possible recruitment?
article_snippet: Otherwise, given the scale of autocratic oppression in recent history, we should have seen far more members of ISIS.
article_snippet: There will be those who contend radical Islamist theology is all we need to look at in understanding radicalization -- there will be others who will place all attention on domestic issues such as the security services, or foreign policy.
article_snippet: It may be many things that condition them before them accept radical Islamism as them "savior.