New study: people from French-speaking countries are more likely to become jihadists

[applegrove]

New study: people from French-speaking countries are more likely to become jihadists

by Zack Beauchamp at Vox

http://www.vox.com/2016/3/29/11326120/jihadism-francophone

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After the ISIS attacks in Brussels and Paris, radicalization — the process by which people decide to become terrorists — has become perhaps one of the most discussed topics in the study of terrorism. How do people become terrorists, many are asking, and what can we do to stop it?

A new study, by the Brookings Institution's Will McCants and Chris Meserole, tried to examine this question by looking at the available data on people from around the world who have traveled to fight in Syria and Iraq.

They found something surprising: The countries most likely to produce people who leave to fight in Syria or Iraq tended to be French-speaking, or heavily influenced by French language and culture.

"As strange as it may seem," McCants and Meserole write in Foreign Affairs, "four of the five countries with the highest rates of radicalization in the world are Francophone, including the top two in Europe."




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[angstlessk]

1. This is scary, because France and Britain created those states that are not recognized

by the radicals who want to return the Ottoman Empire

[applegrove]

2. Both of the radicals jihadists who killed one person each in Canada in the fall of

2014 were french canadian or partly French Canadian. Of course you cannot generalize but it may mean they are dialing down on the psychology of the people vulnerable. And then they'll be able to apply that to vulnerable people that way in the whole world. Quebec has been pretty secular in the last 50 years. I know that French culture is pretty exclusatory in France unless you act exactly like a metrosexual Frenchman/woman.

[angstlessk]

3. I wish the middle east could unravel their empires like India

relinquishing it's Muslim populous to Pakistan without war...there was bloodshed, but not like ISIS and their ilk.

[AngryAmish]

5. 800k dead was the rub of the green, eh?

3 full wars since.

Crazy.

[angstlessk]

6. Yes, my info back then was from MSM

You are correct..the initial partition was DURING the colonization...and it was FROM Pakistan TO India...

Like I said...MSM (no excuse..I should have investigated since then), and now I admit my ignorance of the entire situation between Pakistan and India

[AngryAmish]

4. I can't pull up the article but I assume Morroco and Algeria, France and Belgium

The only reason France had to go into Algeria and Morocco was because they kept raiding French shipping and towns for slave raids. Barbary Pirates...From the Halls of Montazuma to the shores of Tripoli...USMC gets it.

Northwest Africa is one of the most infamous reiver cultures on earth, like the Scots Irish in US, old of Ulster and the Border. Or Chechens. Ghurkas.

No wonder they keep causing trouble.

[Scurrilous]

7. The French royally screwed the pooch in Algeria in regard to their Muslim allies.

See: Harki and aftermath of Algerian War.

Radicalized? Or are their descendants still pissed?