The Subtle Nature of Islamic Radicalization

“... [I]t is impossible to explain violent radicalisation by examining only cases of violent radicalisation...”                                                              -Tinka Veldhuis and Jørgen Staun October, 2009.Emotional TriggersRadicalisation is an enigma due to the subtle nature of emotional triggers that once engaged may be missed by even by those closest to the subject(s). Because of this, some research remains reactive and attempts to reverse engineer the choices that occurred prior to an attack. This type of inductive analysis produces at best a subjective conclusion which cannot be tested as it lacks the original source i.e. a first person account that breaks down the decision making process. The author proposes the state of radicalisation as: “A resulting variable from a sustained pathway in which key…