Anne Speckhard - How Terrorists Are Made
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation
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The Letal Cocktail of Terrorism
There's four things, there's the group, the ideology, hand their social support. Most often, people resonate to a group, and they pick up the group's ideology. The more social support there is, the more willing a person will be to join. A lot of these people in our sample had been born in pretty rough homes,. Their parents may be never even married, and therewas violence and drugs in their home - so as young people, they were really looking for something to belong to.
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