Category: radicalization

IN-DEPTH: Experts Link Transgender Ideology to Elevated Risk of Violent Radicalization

Ideology currently permeating the political movement around gender and transgenderism drives its adherents into psychological corners and makes them susceptible to radicalization, according to several experts on radical movements and religious extremism. The ideology imparts a simplistic, polarizing worldview that traps its victims in paranoia and rage, they said. The issue has come to the…


Transgender Youth More Likely to Support Violent Radicalization: Study

Transgender youth are more likely to show support for “violent radicalization” compared to biological women and other groups, according to the findings of a study by researchers in Canada. The study, titled “Meaning in Life, Future Orientation and Support for Violent Radicalization Among Canadian College Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” was published in 2022 in the…


Preventing Violent Extremism in Youth May Be as Simple as Encouraging Involvement in Sport

Stopping teenagers and children from being radicalized and sliding into violent extremism may be as simple as encouraging them to play sports, researchers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) have discovered. In recent studies undertaken by the universities in the Southeast Punjab region of Pakistan, it was…


‘Dangerous’: Think Tank on NZ PM Call for More Government Control Over Social Media

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s call for greater social media oversight to prevent “misinformation” and “radicalisation” is very dangerous, according to a think tank director. On Friday, Ardern’s Harvard keynote speech identified social media as a threat to democracy, calling on tech giants to work with governments to do more to address misinformation. Muriel…


COVID-19 Lockdown May Have Fueled Online Self-Radicalization: UK Minister

The COVID-19 lockdowns may have resulted in more people being self-radicalised on the Internet, a British minister has warned following a terrorist bomb attack in Liverpool on Remembrance Sunday. A taxi exploded outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital at 10:59 a.m. on Sunday, killing the passenger and injuring the driver, around a mile away from the city’s…