People seem surprised that the English-accented beheader previously dubbed “Jihadi John” is an educated guy, a computer-programming major from a British university. You, long-time readers of the Gormogons, are of course not in the least.

First, you know the Muslim Brotherhood was largely a movement of disaffected university types.

Second, you know that Islamism is a modern ideology rooted in the Western philosophical tradition.

Third, you know who goes in for ideologies that sacralize violence as a means of self-realization? Smart People®. Like Rousseau, Robespierre, Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Saloth Sar, and on and on down Hell’s Honor Roll…

Confucius, Œc. Vol.

Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu.