These European attackers are not like the Al-Qaeda members of old—the radicalized adherents to fundamentalist Islam. Many of these new age killers were small children when the World Trade Center fell in 2001 and have spent much of their lives watching major wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and now Syria.
Kurt Eichenwald (Newsweek)Radicalisation, entre contexte et responsabilité individuelle
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Le concept de “radicalisation” célèbre cette année ses douze ans. Apparu pour la première fois dans un document de travail de l’Union européenne en mai 2004, il est devenu le Saint Graal du contreterrorisme. Mais le processus dit de radicalisation est bien plus complexe qu’il n’y paraît à première vue.
Facing the fourth foreign fighters wave. What drives Europeans to Syria, and to Islamic state?
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Thousands of young Europeans have gone to fight in the Levant, the fourth wave of jihadi foreign fighters since the 1980s. Their decision is rooted in a “no future” subculture and boosted by the conviction that by traveling to Syria they have nothing to lose and everything to gain.
Rik Coolsaet (Egmont Paper)Terror threats will be the new normal for Europe, experts say
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Analysts believe there will be more security alerts and cancellations of major events after Paris attacks.
Matthew Taylor (The Guardian)Professor Coolsaet neemt afscheid van zijn studenten
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‘Onze politici plegen vaandelvlucht’
Het gevoel niet gewenst te zijn
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België is niet meer een “vrijhaven voor terroristen” dan andere Europese landen, schrijft Rik Coolsaet, die kritiek houdt geen steek. Als ons beleid ergens faalt, dan wel op het vlak van preventie en deradicalisering. “Er niet bij horen, daar ontspruit de Syriëgang.”
Rik Coolsaet (De Standaard)De l’anarchiste du XIXe siècle au djihadiste, un fil rouge sang
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Un siècle avant les fous d’Allah, les anars ‘dynamitards’ ouvrent le bal de la terreur internationale. Ils inaugurent la même spirale infernale: psychose, amalgames, réflexes et fantasmes sécuritaires
Pierre Havaux (Le Vif)Jihadist Recruits: Misfits, Not Pious Conservatives
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In the wake of the Paris attacks and the security scare in Belgium, European governments and radicalization experts are once again struggling to understand what is driving young European Muslims to join the Islamic State and carry out savage acts in their own countries, against fellow nationals
Jamie Dettmer (Voice of America)The story of a radicalisation: ‘I was not thinking my thoughts. I was not myself’
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Maysa, a teenager from Brussels, was a music fan and a “ray of sunshine” at school. But a chance encounter on social media had changed her within a year.
Jason Burke (The Guardian)IS offers Belgian youths a thrilling alternative
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Young people involved in extremist activists are often ostracised members of society who are provided an attractive alternative to daily life by Islamic State.
Auskar Surbakti (The World (ABC Australia))Waarom is de terreurdreiging in Amsterdam minder dan in Brussel?
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‘Als er een individu als Abdelhamid Abaaoud onder de Nederlandse Syriëreizigers was geweest, hadden we nu over een lockdown in Amsterdam gepraat.’
Maarten van Dun (Het Parool)