Extremist recruitment recruits through belonging and fellowship, not hatred

Evidence

Whatever the truth of this survey, the willingness to believe it indicates that there is a growing suspicion that societies dominated by capital are now encountering mass disaffection and defection. … The motivation is belonging and fellowship, not hatred. … For all that ISIS offers horrifically false solutions, it responds to real problems. (In calling Islamism identitarian, Badiou doesn’t credit the extent to which ISIS offers at least a partial escape from the dismal identities that capitalism has assigned to so many young muslims, and to so many others too.) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2020

Categorization

• SEED: Essay angle: recruitment data (four in five join with friends and family, Saudi volunteers motivated by brotherhood, not anti-Western hate) as counter-evidence to the hate-motivation narrative.
• XREF: Connects to the New Crusades material on why people join jihadist movements and the ‘retreat into identitarian fatalism’ theme in The Reluctant Fundamentalist. — connects to: Unmet basic needs like belonging and purpose drive extremist recruitment — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America:…, 57; Recruits join ISIS chiefly for belonging and fellowship, not hatred — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2020; Extremist groups recruit by supplying the kinship and belonging that members lacked. — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America:…, 372 (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Recruits join ISIS chiefly for belonging and fellowship, not hatred #corroborates (0.98) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2020
• Extremist groups recruit by supplying the kinship and belonging that members lacked. #corroborates (0.95) — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America, 372
• Unmet basic needs like belonging and purpose drive extremist recruitment #expands (0.92) — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America, 57
• Being recruited, seen, and valued is a powerful early pull into extremism. #corroborates (0.88) — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America, 373
• Extremist groups deliberately restrict information and reinforce outgroup hatred to build commitment #complicates (0.78) — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America, 61
• Extremist groups deliberately provoke Islamophobia to recruit disaffected Muslims #complicates (0.75) — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 1004
• Demonstrating destructive power attracts recruits to terrorist organizations #complicates (0.72)
• Shared prejudice threats build protective ingroup solidarity #complicates (0.72) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 952