The German jihadists.

BBC News has a summary of the soul-searching going on in Germany over the fact that two of the jihadists were Germans.

But The Monkey Tennis Centre says it best as to why jihad is appealing to European youths, like these German jihadists:

In the past Europe's disaffected youth joined the Baader-Meinhof gang or the Red Brigades, and as the epitome of radical chic got to murder, kidnap and bomb their way across Europe wearing dark glasses, and with a Gauloise hanging out of the corner of their mouth. Now they join the Islamists - whose intellectual leaders, such as Sayeed Qtub, are inspired in part by the same Marxist ideology - to indulge their nihilist urges.

Via Gateway Pundit).

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