Monday, November 26, 2007

Seeding jihad


Scott Atran, PhD

Where Boys Grow Up to Be Jihadis -Andrea Elliott

Increasingly, terrorism analysts have focused on the importance of social milieu. [T]errorists are not loners, overcome by a militant cause. They radicalize together with others who share the same passions.

Terrorists don't simply die for a cause, Scott Atran, an anthropologist who studies terrorism, told me. "They die for each other."
(New York Times Magazine)

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