PERSPECTIVE: What Incels Can Tell Us About Isolation, Resentment, and Terror Designations
Several high-profile acts of violence linked to the incel community have stoked much speculation about the threat.
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Can Case of Samantha Elhassani Be a Positive Example for Repatriation of Other ISIS Wives?
Repatriation of the mothers brings their children to safety; these young ISIS children committed no crimes.
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European Attacks and the Uproar Over Hate Speech as ISIS Virtual Caliphate Continues to Reign
Macron’s statements and the attacks offered ISIS and al-Qaeda valuable fodder to strike with relevant trending content.
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PERSPECTIVE: Qatar Takes a Major Step Toward a Freer Society
On November 3, as the United States anxiously watched democracy at work, Qatar announced forthcoming democratic processes as well, a welcome move for the Gulf and Middle Eastern countries which have generally shied away from democratic governance.
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Will Upcoming Trials of ISIS Women in Syria Speed Up Repatriations of Some?
Many ISIS members have been held for three years or more and could serve out sentences in a short span of time.
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Social Media Tracking of ISIS Women and Real-Life Actions of ISIS Men on Their Behalf
ISIS women in camps who have access to phones and social media are angered by their claimed grievances over transfers.
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PERSPECTIVE: How Men and Women Were Drawn to the Hyper-Gendered ISIS Caliphate
The gender perspective must be kept in mind considering experiences and how their risk of recidivism can be minimized.
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Jesse Morton: A Story of Trauma and Radicalization
The impact of trauma on radicalization and terrorist recruitment has only recently made its way into the collective psyche of counterterrorism researchers and practitioners and is still not well understood.
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PERSPECTIVE: Spontaneous Deradicalization and the Path to Repatriate Some ISIS Members
If a recruiter can talk a person into terrorism, it is also possible to talk him back out of it.
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ISIS and the Militant Jihad on Instagram
Recruiters continue to be prolific online, encouraging supporters to hope and work toward the Caliphate’s return and to seek revenge on those who destroyed it by mounting attacks at home.
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Is Turkey a Bad Actor in Regard to ISIS Prisoners Being Held in SDF Territory?
While a Moldovan woman was certainly “rescued” from the well-documented dire conditions at al Hol, she was being held as a detainee in Camp al Hol as an ISIS fighter’s wife.
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PERSPECTIVE: Can We Repatriate the ISIS Children?
They were either brought, or born, into the terrorist group by their parents who served ISIS in various capacities.
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Can an ISIS Terrorist be Rehabilitated and Reintegrated into Society?
Some died in Syria and some have made their way back home, but nearly 10,000 male FTFs, approximately 2,000 of them from Europe, are currently being held by the Syrian Democratic Forces.
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The Security Risk Posed by ISIS Women Smuggling Their Way Out of Camp Hol
The SDF acknowledges these escapes, most recently confirming Swedish news reports that ISIS women from the Netherlands, France, Finland, Switzerland and Sweden have all been smuggled out of the camp in recent months.
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The Curious Case of ISIS’s Recent Audio Diatribe About Qatar
In an unusual twist, ISIS spokesperson Abu Hamza al-Qurashi broke ranks with previous statements by al Qaeda, its affiliates, and ISIS in singling out and threatening Qatar, rather than their usual targets Saudi Arabia or Western powers.
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PERSPECTIVE: Why Branding Antifa a Terror Group Is a Diversion
Defending violence as defensive in nature is in line with terror groups, but there are key differences.
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How Assad’s Atrocities Became a Powerful Motivator for Terrorist Recruitment
Lessons for the world to learn about how terrorist groups use humanitarian crises to influence and engage youth.
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PERSPECTIVE: Delegitimizing ISIS and Militant Jihadist Ideologies May Also Require Addressing Anti-Western Biases
Some commenters took the counternarrative and speaker having been from their country as an insult to their national pride and thus suggested that they did not find the speaker credible.
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Is Internet Recruitment Enough to Seduce a Vulnerable Individual into Terrorism?
Of the 236 ICSVE interviews that have been translated and coded on 342 variables, 117 reported some element of Internet-based recruitment as part of their process of joining the group.
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When Religion and Culture Kill: COVID-19 in the Somali Diaspora Communities in Sweden
There are reports from all over the world of fanatical religious preachers representing fringe elements of most of the major faiths telling their communities to continue coming to worship, even to take religious pilgrimages, that God will not allow them to fall ill.
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