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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
MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - MAY 24: Manchester resident Gulnar Bano Kham Ghadri wears a Union flag head scarf during a vigil by multi-cultural religious leaders from across Manchester in St Ann's Square on May 24, 2017 in Manchester, England. An explosion at Manchester Arena on the night of May 22, as people left the Ariana Grande concert, caused 22 fatalities and injured 59. Greater Manchester Police are treating the explosion as a terrorist attack. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

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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