Homegrown Terrorism: A study of the radicalization process
Editor's Note: Five people arrested in Pakistan had been reported missing in the United States, and police are confident they were planning terrorist acts, a Pakistani police official told CNN. Tune in tonight to hear more about the increasing amount of homegrown terrorism on AC360° at 10 p.m. ET.
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Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Laura Grossman
The Center for Terrorism Research
This study, Homegrown Terrorists in the U.S. and U.K.: An Empirical Study of the Radicalization Process, is a product of over a year and half of research into the phenomenon of homegrown terrorists–Westerners who have chosen to take up arms against the society in which they were born or raised.
Homegrown Terrorists in the U.S. and U.K. examines six different steps are particularly significant as homegrown terrorists radicalize: the adoption of a legalistic interpretation of Islam, coming to trust only a select and ideologically rigid group of religious authorities, viewing the West and Islam and irreconcilably opposed, manifesting a low tolerance for perceived religious deviance, attempting to impose religious beliefs on others, and the expression of radical political views.
These steps have recurred frequently among homegrown terrorists, and they help to provide insight into these individuals’ state of mind as they hurtle toward the embrace of violence again innocents.
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The reason's are not only related to religion. Their grievances somehow goes back to years of humiliation of their parents.. So there are more emotions attached to their grievances than aspect of religion. I feel people tend to point out religion whenever their is a threat .
We are accusing American of exporting terrorism but did you noticed the common link?
Either they or their parents are from Pakistan. Or they have someone who trained them in Pakistan.
No need to blame Students,.. Blame teacher who teaches terrorism.
This is terrible