Violence Breeds Violence

Last week a lady said to me, concerning Samantha Lewthwaite, the alleged terrorist, that she was from a 'respectable family', and it was this respectability that made her actions all the more surprising.
For one thing, her parents were divorced when she was eleven years old. In other words, at least one parent was unbearably self-indulgent and cared little for the children.
A broken home is hardly respectable.
Secondly, Samantha attended an English comprehensive school, where girls are no longer taught domestic science, but are taught to be highly sexualised. Girls, their femininity mocked, objectified and debauched, frequently starve themselves and self harm.It was in an effort to regain her dignity as a woman, that Samantha converted to Islam, hoping to fend off the influence of her depraved teachers.
Thirdly, her father was a soldier. I can see nothing respectable about being a hired killer.
No doubt, the glorification of violence was part of Samantha's upbringing.
Back in the 1970s, when her father took the Queen's shilling, the British Army were no longer killing Kenyans, but up until the 1960s they had killed plenty.
They fought Kenyatta, the father, in the 1950s, putting him on trial. Now the soldier's daughter and her Moslem friends fight Kenyatta, the son, the enemy of the so-called 'international community', who is also going to be put on trial.
In the 1970s state violence was still pretty much the preserve of males, but now that women have been diminished, and they have been assimilated into state power structures, the likes of Samantha can join in the psycho fun, killing ordinary people for the benefit of Power.
Like Father, like Daughter, Patriarchy to Neo-Patriarchy, the desperate declining West sows chaos and destruction, not only amongst its own children, but throughout the world, loving death as much as the Rest loves life.