Islamic terrorists are driven as much as by sexual frustration as they are by a desire to crush the non-Muslim West, according to a New Jersey-based U.S. federal prosecutor who for many years has studied the Middle East

Ken Ballen has spent years interviewing hundreds of Islamic terrorists and found many were drawn into the hands of Al Qaeda and the Taliban through forbidden love or from having a dysfunctional family. Ballen cites the case of two Saudi teenagers he dubbed the jihadi Romeo and Juliet. Abdullah and Maryam fell in love but when he failed to raise the $30,000 dowry demanded by Maryam's father, she had to marry an older man. The couple went to Iraq and became jihadists with the idea that if they died for the cause they would be reunited in heaven.