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Showing Original Post only (View all)IS YOUR CHILD A TERRORIST? U.S. GOVERNMENT QUESTIONNAIRE RATES FAMILIES AT RISK FOR EXTREMISM [View all]
IS YOUR CHILD A TERRORIST? U.S. GOVERNMENT QUESTIONNAIRE RATES FAMILIES AT RISK FOR EXTREMISMBY MURTAZA HUSSAIN, CORA CURRIER, AND JANA WINTER * The Intercept * Feb 15, 2015
Are you, your family or your community at risk of turning to violent extremism? Thats the premise behind a rating system devised by the National Counterterrorism Center, according to a document marked For Official Use Only, and obtained by The Intercept.
The document and the rating system is part of a wider strategy for Countering Violent Extremism, which calls for local community and religious leaders to work together with law enforcement and other government agencies. The White House has made this approach a centerpiece of its response to terrorist attacks around the world, and in the wake of the Paris attacks, announced plans to host an international summit on Countering Violent Extremism on February 18th.
The rating system, part of a 36-page document dated May 2014 and titled Countering Violent Extremism: A Guide for Practitioners and Analysts, suggests that police, social workers and educators rate individuals on a scale of one to five in categories such as: Expressions of Hopelessness, Futility, Talk of Harming Self or Others, and Connection to Group Identity (Race, Nationality, Religion, Ethnicity). The ranking system is supposed to alert government officials to individuals at risk of turning to radical violence, and to families or communities at risk of incubating extremist ideologies.
Families are judged on factors such as Aware[ness] of Each Others Activities, as well as levels of Parent-Child Bonding, and communities are rated by access to health care and social services, in addition to presence of ideologues or recruiters as potential risk factors.
A low score in any of these categories would indicate a high risk of susceptibility to engage in violent extremism, according to the document. It encourages users of the guide to plot the scores on a graph to determine what interventions could halt the process of radicalization before it happens.
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/09/government-develops-questionnaire-see-might-become-terrorist/
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