Leven met en na 22/3

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De aanslagen van 22 maart in Zaventem en Brussel staan in ons geheugen gegrift met het bloed van de 32 slachtoffers. Hoe is het zover kunnen komen ? Vaak wordt de enige beweegreden gezocht in extremistisch gedachtegoed. Maar zo eenvoudig is het niet. Men wordt geen terrorist omdat men plots radicale ideeën ontmoet en omhelst.

Rik Coolsaet (Samenleving en Politiek)

Today’s new terrorists were radical before they were religious

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The recent bombings in Europe are being perpetrated by a new generation of terrorists who are upending our previous understanding of what motivates such people and how to find and stop them. Today’s terrorists are not religious extremists who became radicals but rather radicals who became religious extremists. The difference is crucial.

Fareed Zakaria (Washington Post)

New ISIS recruits have deep criminal roots

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European officials say the perpetrators in the most recent attacks appear to be part of a new wave of recruits that are not “radical Islamists” but rather “Islamized radicals” — people from society’s outer margins who feel at home with a terrorist organization noted for beheading hostages and executing unarmed civilians.

Joby Warrick, Gregg Miller (Washington Post)