Why do some young people become jihadis? Psychiatry offers answers | Kamran Ahmed
Muslims growing up in western countries have to juggle competing cultural influences. This process may hold the key to defeating radicalisation
by Kamran Ahmed
May 26, 2017
3 minutes
As the dust settles on the traumatising we are left grieving and searching for an explanation for this senseless violence. Some will have you believe that Islam is at fault since verses of the Qur’an legitimise such violence, while their opponents point out that the ideology fuelling these acts of terror is a . The fact remains that there are approximately 1.6 billion Muslims in the world, the overwhelming majority of whom abhor Isis and the evil it represents. So what is driving a handful of extremists to commit horrific acts of
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