State-neglected Muslim youth adopt jihad as a noble global cause

Evidence

French scholar Olivier Roy has identified how Muslim youth neglected by the state become “rebels without a cause” who “find in jihad a ‘noble’ and global cause, and are consequently instrumentalised by a radical organization that has a strategic agenda.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 768

French scholar Olivier Roy has identified how Muslim youth neglected by the state become “rebels without a cause” who “find in jihad a ‘noble’ and global cause, and are consequently instrumentalised by a radical organization that has a strategic agenda.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 768

Categorization

• QUESTION: Roy’s ‘rebels without a cause’ framing might be worth chasing against the other national cases in the book to compare how radicalization logic differs.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 768
• XREF: connects to: Jihadi solidarity forms a global peer-to-peer niche replacing older territorial traditions. — Scott Atran, The Devoted Actor: Unconditional…, 1; Al-Qaeda recruits Western residents and recruits adolescents craving easy certainties — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1437; Images of co-religionists under attack recruit young Muslims into militancy — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru,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:…, 341