Mohammed Hafez and Creighton Mullins (NPS): The Radicalization Puzzle: A Theoretical Synthesis of Empirical Approaches to Homegrown Extremism. Shiraz Maher on the roots of radicalisation: It’s identity, stupid. Want to understand the jihadis? Read their poetry. To defeat the Islamic State, the West must understand the grievances that fuel the movement: Robert Ford reviews The Jihadis Return: ISIS and the Sunni Uprising by Patrick Cockburn. Why join Islamic State? Patrick Cockburn investigates. Her Majesty’s Jihadists: More British Muslims have joined Islamist militant groups than serve in the country’s armed forces — how to understand the pull of jihad. From Belgium to ISIS: Why are teen-agers joining ISIS? Joanna Paraszczuk on Valdet Gashi and the martial arts champions of Islamic State. Meet Gulmurod Khalimov, the elite U.S.-trained special forces chief who just joined ISIS. Anne Speckhard (Georgetown): Female Terrorists in ISIS, al Qaeda and 21st Century Terrorism. Ladies, ISIS is coming for you with kittens, Nutella, fun emojis. ISIS and the lonely young American: For months, Alex had been growing closer to a new group of friends online — the kindest she had ever had — who were teaching her what it meant to be a Muslim. Lorenzo Vidino and Seamus Hughes on how to stop ISIS from recruiting American teens. Igor Volsky and Victoria Fleischer on how Imam Mohamed Magid has kept Americans from joining the Islamic State. The FBI has been rounding up more potential “lone wolf” terrorists, Congressional leaders and the Justice Department say.
