Why Do They Become Terrorists?

From PBS's Frontline faq:

Why are European Muslims becoming radicalized?

Only a small percentage of Muslims -- who represent the continent's largest and fastest growing religion -- resort to violent radicalism. For those that do, usually their feelings of cultural alienation and discrimination have left them vulnerable to extremist ideologies.

Some say initiatives like France's headscarf ban in public schools and the deportation of radical imams from a number of European countries serve to inflame the tensions and further alienate the Muslim community. Anthropology professor Paul Silverstein of Reed College has studied Algerian immigrants to France and says these state efforts are bound to fail, as they are "largely perceived by many French Muslims, if not Muslims worldwide, as attacks on Islam."

Sounds reasonable, ban our headscarfs? we must cut off your heads. But really, what was surprising was that Frontline didn't give "George Bush" as the answer to why European Muslims are becoming radicalized. The program wasn't nearly as bad as I'd expected. (given it's PBS origins)