"Radicalization" means the process by which someone adopts extreme beliefs, ideas, or views, especially those that promote violence or radical change. It often occurs when individuals become more extreme in their thinking and actions due to influences from a group, ideology, or personal experiences.
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Rep. Tammy Duckworth, D - Ill., implied that politicians like incumbent Republican Sen. Mark Kirk may be responsible for
radicalization of young Muslims.
She directed him to the back of a long line outside the hearing room for the committee's hearing on «The Extent of
Radicalization in the American Muslim Community and that Community's Response.»
Many in the community came out in favor of Rep. Peter King's, R - New York, insistence last year on holding congressional hearings
on radicalization within American Islam, even as other Muslim groups blasted the hearings as anti-Muslim.
Clergy from across the nation's religious spectrum condemned Muslim
radicalization hearings by Rep. Peter King, R - New York, which they said unfairly targeted Muslims.
Green Paper Topic (s) Criminal Code speech offence of advocating or promoting «terrorism offences in general», and Proposal
for radicalization prevention programs What it is Law Against Advocating or Promoting Terrorism in General The Anti-Terrorism Act 2015 (ATA, 2015)(«Bill C - 51»)... Read More →
The French government on Friday unveiled a wide - ranging new program to
counter radicalization, as French jihadis return from the battlefields of Syria and Iraq and the watch list grows of people showing risk signs.
Analysis: Former Harvard Physicist Dr. Lubos Motl: Green fanaticism kills, fossil fuels prolong lives - «This act unmasks the degree of
radicalization within the movement that fights global warming.
The Saudi artist Abdulnasser Gharem, who attended school with two of the 9/11 hijackers, hopes to dissuade young people from
radicalization by encouraging art education as an alternative (Saudi Arabia is severely lacking in extracurricular activities as many leisurely pastimes are banned).
Below that, though, is a peek into
radicalization as relevant today as it would have been in the 1600s.
We are getting these days many reports of
increasing radicalization in mosques, on the left and right wing, in this country, Canada.
Niger, long praised for its secular government and relative tolerance towards Christians (more than 98 percent of its population are Muslim), has seen
growing radicalization in recent years.
Tunisia further struggles to reconcile its democratic institutions with extreme pockets of
Islamic radicalization among its youth.
Despite the dangers of
radicalization among various groups, ranging from high school students (Scholarism), university students (university student federation), Occupy Central leaders (Benny Tai and Chan Kin - Man), and democratic parties, the students have generally known when to back down to avoid escalation.
That's a problem for researchers who study sensitive topics, wrote Mohammed, who himself abandoned a promising project to study the «social experience of
violent radicalization.»
While more research must be done on the effectiveness of such programs, the presenters cited the importance of education in
preventing radicalization in the first place.
Then: «The economic downturn and the election of the first African American president present unique drivers for right -
wing radicalization and recruitment.»
Some further thoughts on Islam, Islamism and ISIS:
Though radicalization of our young people is a frightening phenomenon, perhaps we need to look first to the faults of our own society for the causes.
Girls are especially vulnerable — invisible inventory.And boys who are not in full - time school are vulnerable to
further radicalization by groups like ISIS.
The potential for
unlimited radicalization seems to exist from the moment the rights of man are extracted from a framework defined by the laws of nature and nature's God and made to stand on their own as assertions of human autonomy.
King said America had seen the evidence of that al Qaeda -
inspired radicalization in «a number of attempted attacks which could have killed hundreds if not thousands of people,» such as the failed Times Square attack and New York subway bombing plan.
«There's been
self radicalization going on within the Muslim community, within a very small minority, but it's there and that's where the threat is coming from at this time.»
Today, even the Islamic State (formerly, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or ISIS) has links to lone wolf terrorism and
prisoner radicalization.
ISIS is the «9th, 10th, 11th, 12th - order effect of
prison radicalization» and traces its roots to the former Jordanian prisoner Abu Musab al - Zarqawi, who was killed by the U.S. in 2006, Hamm said.
Another study Lyons - Padilla presented may help explain why countries in Europe are facing more cases of
homegrown radicalization than the U.S..
In fact,
radicalization scholars have found that some extremist groups actively seek out harsh penalties from criminal justice agencies and governments, in an effort to exploit perceived overreactions for a public relations advantage that also aids their recruitment efforts.
There's not enough here about the toll of their actions, the collateral and
radicalization stemming from years of war lubricated by parasites like David and Efraim.
• Laurie (Cindy Williams) insisting on redding up her brother's college pad, More American Graffiti; later, her sudden and
gleeful radicalization...
This volume is divided into four sections, focusing in turn on landscape, urban, private and utopian variants, exploring the issues that have made the idyll timely again, and following the course of its
present radicalization.
Wolff left New York in the early»50s for studies in classics and comparative literature at Harvard, and in the 1960s went through a
political radicalization that brought him into contact with a group of younger composers, including Cornelius Cardew and Frederic Rzewski, who worked to incorporate political content into their music.
Youth Court Judge Dominique Wilhelmy said evidence showed the teen's
radicalization began when he was 13.
The members of the two organizations that plotted that Town Hall stunt are aggressively uninterested in other things, too: the MTA payroll tax on New York City - commuter counties, «illegals» using area emergency rooms, questions about the moral rightness of Peter King's American - Muslim -
radicalization hearings in Congress, and generally footing the bill for other people's stuff.
It's trying to combat hostile behavior or how do you
counter radicalization or counter-terrorism, and so forth.
Despite their ubiquity, there's been precious little effort spent evaluating whether these programs actually work, writes Daniel Koehler, director of the German Institute
on Radicalization and De-radicalization Studies based in Stuttgart, in a commentary published today in Nature Human Behaviour.
«The Redirect Method uses Adwords targeting tools and curated YouTube videos uploaded by people all around the world to confront
online radicalization.
The National Campmeeting Association fought hard for loyalty, but the influx of non-Methodists, an
increasing radicalization of Holiness bodies, and an increasing polarization led ultimately to schism.
This awful election and the semi-farcical trial reveal the
growing radicalization in Indonesia's Muslim population.
Tech companies may intend to be creating a safer and more inclusive environment for users — but they may actually
encourage radicalization and simultaneously create precedents for removing content in the face of public outcry, regardless of legal or moral obligations.
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King at Wednesday's hearing on Muslim
radicalization in U.S. prisons.
After 9/11 muslims lived in fear in US, their faith was shaken by hardline bloggers and political activists, even there was a hearing in congress «
radicalization of Islam in US».
«Could that have contributed to
the radicalization?
Drone strikes can also reduce perceptions of the United States as a bully whose military behavior may increase
radicalization.