These recruits are not corrupted by ideology but by the end of ideology:
they have grown up in the era of Francis Fukuyama’s “end of history”, of no
alternatives to capitalist globalisation. They have known no critique, only
conspiracy theory, and are drawn to apocalyptic rather than popular struggle.
Nevertheless, for all its lack of actual political content, the narrative of
global war against the west feels to its adherents like an answer to the
violence of racism, poverty and empire.