The psychological process that drives people to gangs can turn you into a terrorist
NOOR AL-SIBAI at Raw Story
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/the-psychological-process-that-drives-people-to-gangs-can-turn-you-into-a-terrorist/
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This third culture is, according to Ahmed, akin to the pathway into gang culture for young people around the world a sense of alienation from family and society at large delivers them into the hands of older gang leaders.
The counterculture for young Muslim men at odds with society nowadays is not gang culture but radical extremist factions that offer self-esteem and identity in exchange for allegiance to a violent and morally bankrupt manifesto, Ahmed wrote. Once they are members of the subversive peer group, alarming ideas and behaviors can become normalized very quickly indeed.
The process of joining radicalized third cultures among Muslims in the West is woefully under-studied, although some point to low socioeconomic standing as a potential breeding factor in Europe. Poverty and lack of education do not, however, explain the radicalization of wealthy and educated Muslims like many of the suicide bombers in the 9/11 attacks in 2001.
Similarly to those most susceptible to cults, Ahmed wrote that perhaps those most likely to make the transition from radical to terrorist are the exceedingly vulnerable, who are highly susceptible to jihadi rhetoric, and narcissistic psychopaths, who might revel in the notoriety of being a terrorist. Those vulnerable people are often pushed over the edge by extremist hate-preachers and the slick ISIS propaganda machine, according to Ahmed.
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