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100	1		_aAZANI Eitan
700			_aSTENZLER Liram Koblentz
245			_aMuslim converts who turn to global jihad: _bradicalization characteristics and countermeasures/ _cEitan Azani & Liram Koblentz-Stenzler
260			_c2022
520			_aOver the past three decades, along with the expansion of the phenomenon of global jihad, we have witnessed a growing trend of converts to Islam integrating into global jihad organizations. Some of these converts constitute an important element in the terrorist infrastructure, globally, and particularly in the West. Some are recruited as foreign fighters into the ranks of the Islamic State or other Islamic extremist organizations. Global jihad organizations have identified the potential of new converts (knowledge of the local culture, the difficulty in tracking them faced by intelligence organizations), and they are investing efforts in every possible arena (physical and digital) to recruit them for terrorist activity. The converts, for their part, are more vulnerable to recruitment for terrorist purposes. The aim of the article is to illuminate the existing phenomenon of radicalization among new converts to Islam and expand the current knowledge base with regard to the variables that affect the growth of this phenomenon and the background and preconditions for such growth. Moreover, this article will attempt to use the above in order to design and develop effective tools for early warning and curbing this phenomenon.
650			_aCONVERTS POPULATION _zEUROPE _zUNITED STATES
650			_aRADICALIZATION PROCESS _xRADICALIZATION OF CONVERTS
650			_aTERRORISM
650			_aCONVERTS TO ISLAM WHO BECOME FOREIGN FIGHTERS
650			_aTERRORIST ATTACKS
773			_aStudies in Conflict & Terrorism: _gVol.45, No 1,2,3, January, February, March 2022, pp. 173-199 (114)
598			_aTERRORISM, EUROPE, USA, ISLAMIC
856			_uhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1057610X.2019.1657304 _zClick here for full text
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