What Motivates Terrorists?

The frst- and second- generation Moslem children I interviewed for a study of the sources of radicalization in the Netherlands seemed to think that lecture about international jihad was cool, in the comparable way that earreach to gangster knocking is in more or less offspring circles. or so of these children will not turn to violence, provided once youth join an extremist group, the group itself discount become an inborn part of their identity, perchance even their but community. And so counter-radicalization requires ?nding saucily sources of social verify for them. The Saudi-Arabian class takes great constancy to reintegrate participants into the families and communities they belonged to beforehand their radicalization by encourage family visits and getting the community involved in follow-up aft(prenominal) the youth argon released. The program right assumes that social connections argon key to twain radicalization and deradicalization. Then thither are ec onomics. international jihad can too be a job. There is no correlation between poverty and terrorist act if we look glob each(prenominal)y, at least harmonize to the studies carried out gum olibanum far. But that doesnt lowly that poor people, in countries with high levels of unemployment, arent particularly vulnerable to recruitment, especially as shank fodder. The Saudi government refers to ignorance about the adjust nature of Islam, and intelligent abnormality as the main flat coat for terrorism. Of the twenty-?ve thousand venture insurgents and terrorists detained in Iraq as of 2007, 78 portion were unemployed, and nearly all of them were underemployed, according to general Douglas Stone, who was then in charge of task Force 134. Because these insurgents took up the job of ?ghting a military commerce, typically targeting soldiers rather than civilians, at least or so of them could conceivably rehabilitate themselves once the occupation ends. Christopher Boucek, an expert on Saudi Arabia and Yemen at the Carnegie Endowment for world-wide Peace, says the Advisory Committee, which helps run low the rehabilitation program, has describe that detainees are typically in their mid-twenties and come from rangy lower- or materialistic families, with only 3 part glide path from high-income backgrounds. Boucek says that according to Saudi of?cials, one-quarter of the program participants who had participated in jihad had prior(prenominal) criminal histories, somewhat half for drug-related offenses. wholly 5 percent of detainees were prayer leading or had separate formal spiritual roles. \n