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(108,898 total)“When I interviewed ICSR director Peter Neumann in September 2015, he explained that there were four main reasons he'd found for why ISIS fighters quit: 1. Recruits joined to fight Bashar al-Assad, but ended up largely fighting other Syrian rebels, and were disappointed by this. 2. Defectors believed…”
— Zack Beauchamp, "If they don’t like someone, they just behead him": why ISIS fighters quit
“The young Muslims from 'inner-city' areas of Belgium, France, and other European countries joining up with the Islamic State were radical before they were religious. Their revolt from society manifested itself through petty crime and delinquency. Many are essentially part of street gangs. What the I…”
— Alain Grignard, One sentence that explains Belgium’s jihadism problem