Youth militancy fuses recreation with religious and masculine violence

Evidence

In other circumstances, such as the mobilization of youth by the Karachi-based Muhajir Qaumi Movement, fun is tethered to militancy to bring together practices of political violence, religious nationalism, and the performance of masculine physicality (Verkaaik 2004). — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 925

Categorization

• STORYSTEM: A story about a young man for whom political violence is inseparable from play and masculine performance — the recruitment-as-fun dynamic is ripe for fictional treatment.
• XREF: connects to: 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