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> and you don’t become radicalized if your life is going well. This is the kind of thing that we all would like to believe intuitively. But counterexamples are
by wtallis 6y ago
> and you don’t become radicalized if your life is going well.
This is the kind of thing that we all would like to believe intuitively. But counterexamples are all too easy to find, unless you want to define "life is going well" narrowly enough that nobody qualifies.
Having a shit life is not a necessary or sufficient condition for radicalization. There is a correlation there, but I really doubt that it's the best predictor of who may fall victim to radicalization.
- BlueTemplar 6y agoYeah, the stories come to mind of some of the people that left Western countries to go to Syria to fight for Daesh, were caught there, then kicked out by Kurds and Americans to Iraq, where they were condemned and executed.