Internet radicalization recruits people toward suicide martyrdom
Evidence
Terrorists look for ardent followers of their web sites, Facebook pages, and Twitter feeds and try to recruit them. One such recruit, a Sudanese student, announced, “I’m off to Iraq to be martyred. Wish me luck” (Curiel, 2005). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2269
Categorization
- SHARE: Specific anecdote of the student announcing martyrdom plans on the way to Iraq — narrow but striking for someone tracking radicalization case studies.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2269
- XREF: connects to: The internet enables nationalist extremists to advocate genocide — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 202; Ordinary, otherwise unremarkable people can become radicalized through online research — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects…, 3; Online environments and prior criminal activity are the two dominant radicalization pathways — 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:…, 177 (+5 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The internet enables nationalist extremists to advocate genocide — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 202; Ordinary, otherwise unremarkable people can become radicalized through online research — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects…, 3; Online environments and prior criminal activity are the two dominant radicalization pathways — 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:…, 177 (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- Algorithmic-radicalization narratives may overstate causation since most frustrated users stay moderate
#complicates(0.75) — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof, 387