Small Wars Journal

Islamic extremism

American Jihadists: Three Case Studies of American Citizens Who Chose Extremism over America SWJED Fri, 01/18/2019 - 3:48am
One of the lessons of this paper is that there is no one way an individual can be radicalized or recruited. It could be propaganda playing on misguided idealism, like Dakhlalla spoke of, hours spent studying extremist ideology online like Hasan, or being separate from and not assimilating into society, like Awlaki chose.