Twenty years ago, such youths rallied to radical Islamic movements in Chechnya and Bosnia, or joined the Groupe Islamique Armée in Algeria or the various al-Qaeda affiliates. Today, they are flocking to the Islamic State, as ignorant of Islamic theology as they are indifferent to the different historical and social traits that have defined these various radical movements. In effect, what we are witnessing is not the radicalization of Islam, but the Islamicization of radicalness.
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