Originally Posted By: mirza
Are we true believers because we choose to be, or is it just good old brainwashing as a child and pretty much not learning anything else??


With regard to the really dangerous people: They get the brainwashing later in life...
I just watched an in-depth documentary about how some persons who grew up in Germany and France turned towards radical Islamism around the age of 20-25. One of them had been raised Christian, another one had atheist parents. Both were insecure about their own position in life and got caught in the clutches of cunning, rhethorically trained Salafists as young adults.
Their parent's what you call "brainwashing" wasn't the problem...