Homegrown terrorists in the U.S. and U.K.: A study of the radicalization process

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Laura Grossman
The Center for Terrorism Research

This study, Homegrown Terrorists in the U.S. and U.K.: An Empirical Study of the Radicalization Process, is a product of over a year and half of research into the phenomenon of homegrown terrorists–Westerners who have chosen to take up arms against the society in which they were born or raised.

Homegrown Terrorists in the U.S. and U.K. examines six different steps are particularly significant as homegrown terrorists radicalize: the adoption of a legalistic interpretation of Islam, coming to trust only a select and ideologically rigid group of religious authorities, viewing the West and Islam and irreconcilably opposed, manifesting a low tolerance for perceived religious deviance, attempting to impose religious beliefs on others, and the expression of radical political views.

These steps have recurred frequently among homegrown terrorists, and they help to provide insight into these individuals’ state of mind as they hurtle toward the embrace of violence again innocents.

Go http://www.defenddemocracy.org/downloads/HomegrownTerrorists_USandUK.pdf">here to read the study.

Obviously this is a study specifically focused on homegrown “jihadist” terrorists. There are studies of terrorists from other religions that have been made.

BTW have you read it yet?

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Here's the original place I found it: http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/02/homegrown-terrorists-a-study-of-the-radicalization-process/

Thanks for the head's up, btw.

Is Christian.

But let's gloss that over and only talk about great britain's "Radicalized Muslim youth" - and not the skinheads that tear up the town after a soccer game. Those are just criminals. Only muslims can be terrorists.

Yes, I read it. I know intent and propaganda when I read something, too.

Esp. if we adopt the right definition of "terrorism".

Simply going off the numbers, however, we'd expect no more than 2% of domestic terrorism in the last decade to involve Muslims, and probably less.

and 2.7% of the population in the UK.

Both nations have more prominent, "homegrown" terrorists - the US has the Army of God and other christian terrorist groups, the militia movement, and a few others. The UK still has some tension with splintered terror groups operating out of Ireland. Both nations have more than their share of reactionaries as well (Racists, mostly, but there's a few others)

Interestingly... all of these groups that aren't being mentioned... Hate Muslims.