radicalization

Teenager is charged with terrorism offenses in stabbings of bishop and priest at Sydney church

By Mark Baker and Keiran Smith — April 19, 2024
SYDNEY (AP) — A crowd of up to 600 people converged on the church after the attack, some demanding that police hand over the boy.

London attacker’s mother blames internet for son’s radicalization

By Reuters — June 6, 2017
ROME (Reuters) The mother of the Italian-Moroccan jihadi who helped carry out a deadly attack in London last week said on Tuesday she had tried to keep her son from falling under the sway of Islamic State ideology, but the internet and his London friends changed him.

French wine capital acquires a new taste: Fighting radicalization

By Yonat Shimron — January 11, 2017
BORDEAUX, France (RNS) This city's year-old CAPRI program is aimed at preventing radicalization after a wave of largely homegrown terrorist attacks.

Counterterrorism expert warns of radicalization in British prisons

By Yonat Shimron — July 28, 2016
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) Ian Acheson wrote in The Times that the country’s prison services face a serious challenge in which the unchecked growth of radical Islam may soon pose “a lethal threat to national security.”

From idealism to disillusion, the shifting profile of Islamist attackers

By RNS staff — July 19, 2016
PARIS — Several of the men involved in apparently Islamic State-inspired attacks in Paris in November 2015 and in Brussels in March 2016 had a history of crime.

Al Qaeda gunmen drank beers before Ivory Coast attack

By Reuters — March 14, 2016
GRAND BASSAM, Ivory Coast -- Fifteen civilians and three members of the special forces were killed in the attack at a weekend retreat popular with Ivorians and westerners.

Obama’s challenge to Muslim Americans begins at home (COMMENTARY)

By Athar Javaid — February 11, 2016
(RNS) How can Muslims break the cycle of violence and Islamophobia? Identify extremism and radicalization before it becomes violent.

The brothers Farook: one a decorated veteran, the other a killer

By Reuters — December 8, 2015
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - The contrasting lives of the Farook brothers, described by friends, neighbors and former classmates who knew them both, is a disturbing tale, in part because there are so few clues to why they turned out so differently.

East-West Travelblog: Radicalization is not a ‘Muslim problem’

By Kimberly Winston — August 28, 2015
“The biggest threat in the U.S. from militant individuals is not Muslim, it is Christians.”

British YouTube star keeps kids off the extremist path

By Jane Onyanga-Omara — April 7, 2015
When British police were looking for alternative ways of reaching young people to highlight the dangers of radicalization, they knew who to call.

‘Average Mohamed’ tries to thwart Islamic State

By Aamer Madhani — February 4, 2015
MINNEAPOLIS (RNS) A Minneapolis gas station manager has poured thousands of dollars of his own money into producing a series of animated cartoon messages to rebut the extremist group's messaging.

‘Radicalization’ hearings on Muslim return to Capitol

By Chris Lisee — June 20, 2012

WASHINGTON (RNS) House lawmakers split along party lines at a hearing Wednesday that explored Muslim responses to prior hearings on the "radicalization" of American Muslims. By Chris Lisee.

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