Oldfart,

Well, perhaps, but history records that Fawkes converted to Catholicism around the age of 16. He enlisted in the army of Archduke Albert of Austria in the Netherlands and fought with the armies of Catholic Spain against the Protestant United Provinces.
So we have a religious convert who traveled to a foreign country where he learned how to use explosives, and returned to his home country where he joined a plot to blow up a civilian target.

These seem to me to be interesting similarities between this 16th century Catholic and some 21st century Muslims.

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