Anne Speckhard - How Terrorists Are Made
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation
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Is There a Carismatic Leader?
A man named anoir al alaki a. inspired a lot of westerners to join isis because of the way that he spoke. He was accessible and carismatic, and ithink, spoke english. Is there typically a particular person who speaks very well in videos? Is tily different. And i would say one of the roots is to show you something really emotionally vocative and victim work. But another is to be an idealogue, that's an inciter. And then you sell a ideology to the people that are listening to you. That's what alaki did. So he told the ideology, or promoted the ideology, of endles shahad.
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