How Are They Recruited?

Brainwashing is a significant part of every war and every soldier in every war; it is also a major theme in Slaughterhouse-Five and Full Metal Jacket. In a scene where Joker is in a helicopter with a door gunner, the door gunner is shooting at Vietnamese farmers and civilians from a helicopter and says that Joker should write a story about him because he has got “157 dead gooks killed” to which Joker responds by asking if he’s killed any women or children and he says, “sometimes.” Then, Joker asks, “how can you shoot women or children?” and the gunner responds by saying, “Easy! Ya just don’t lead 'em so much! Ain't war hell?” (Full Metal Jacket). As we can see, yes, war is definitely hell. The gunner has been so brainwashed by the drilling of war training that he feels nothing when shooting at innocent people from a helicopter, not even women and children. For a normal person, it would be

The speaker for tonight’s Muslims in America seminar brought a new aspect or way off thinking when it comes to how non-radical Muslims are dealing with radical Muslims. His delivery and provoking points, helped me better understand how people can convert to radical Muslim. Before attending the seminar I never considered the viewpoint or reasoning’s of terrorist. I found out most radicals are educated, literate and even intellectual. Militants believe in what is called “ooma”, which is translated as church or body. They believe strongly in “ooma” and that it represents an entire body. They view the world as a body with impairments and dysfunction. Tired of political grievance militants begin to feel love and sympathy towards their cause of curing

In the Mormon Church, which is the third largest religion in the USA, young people have to go to another city or even country for up to two years to do missionary work. The two young women Hannah Prett and Shelsea Brinkerhoff were sent from Salt Lake City, where the headquarter of the largest group of Mormons is located, to Munich. They are living in a small dorm with other like-mined people, and they have no time for activities not related to their religion. So, when they are not recruiting people on the streets, they work for their community in which they live in. During their time in Germany they talk to strangers about god, their personal faith and try to convince these people who are willing to listen to them to join the Church of Mormon.

The Boko Haram sect in Nigeria has been a huge problem for the country in the past, and the threat is only growing. This group is considered responsible for a handful of government attacks, targets on the United Nations, and often churches who undermine the Islamic religion. Their actions have spawned from the idea that their country is controlled by “fake Muslims”, and aim to create an Islamic nation ruled with Sharia law.

Sudan is a crossroads through which many extremists groups combine or swap men, material and know-how. A coup in 1989 brought to power a group of generals allied to high-minded Islamists of an earlier vintage who, two decades ago, played host to Osama bin Laden. Since then the regime has grown suspicious of unbridled Islamism, though it is not averse to co-opting it, too. The main university in Khartoum, the capital, has been a magnet for radical students. Some have moved on to battlefields to the north and east, following in bin Laden’s footsteps.

Boko Haram are motivated by a Jihadist version of Islam and is believed to be believers of the one true interpretation of the (Brinkel & Ait-Hida, 2012, p. 16). Their ultimate goal to create a true Islamic state in Nigeria directly associated with Sharia law. (Chothia, 2015, p. 5). The group has maintained their secrecy and the authorities have yet to be captured by law enforcement. Boko Haram is seen to have many basic views including their religious motivations, political downfall, and their extreme actions taken on the people of Nigeria. Boko

This paper will seek to understand what really motivates terrorists to commit the acts that make them so infamous. We are assuming that the chief motivating factor behind the decisions of terrorist organizations is the political outcome of their acts balanced against the risk and collateral damage inflicted to achieve this end. We will also weigh in the appeal of terrorism on potential recruits in weak states and determine how the motivations of the group become the motivation of the individual and how this benefits the decentralized organization of terrorist organizations like al Qaeda.

A multitude of factors contribute to any type of reasoning or psychological makeup of an individual; whether it is a person’s history of behavioral problems, inability to maintain a functional relationship, or in this case becoming part of a terrorist organization. In Sarah Kershaw’s “The Terrorist Mind: An Update”, we are able to see what drives a person to commit acts of terror where it is praised in a given community.

All participants were undergraduate students (X women, Mage =X years, age range: X-X) from a small, Midwestern university. Participants were all voluntarily enrolled in formal sorority recruitment. No benefit was given to potential new members for participating in the study as results were not given to chapter presidents until the completion of bid day. Each participant was treated in accordance with the APA ethical guidelines. Little to no risk was presented to the participants through this study.

Terrorism is a difficult issue to understand and grasp for many people. What is even more difficult to understand is what drives an individual to become radicalized to the point of joining a terrorist organization and committing terrorist acts. While there is not specific criteria or a “cookie cutter” approach to understanding what motivates and radicalizes an individual to participate in such atrocities, there are however, several psychological and behavioral factors that have been common among these individuals. The following paper will outline some of the psychological and behavioral factors that attribute to an individual’s radicalization and eventual willingness and even perhaps

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Boko Haram is not able to sustain its success by just its ideological interpretation. Therefore, the organization needs some source of money which comes from external sources. According to the International Business Times (2014), Boko Haram has received millions through ransoms from kidnapping. In addition, the group receives donations from external sympathizers from all around the globe (Caulderwood, para. 8). Boko Haram also has ties to Al-Qaeda as both organizations are known to have exchanged weapons, cash, and some soldiers (para. 9). According to the South African Journal of Military Studies (2012), Boko Haram also gains revenue through an extensive drug trafficking empire. Additionally main is gained by tapping into oil pipelines and

Throughout the world, there have been many terrorist attacks that have been all in the name of Islam. All of the attacks have shocked the world, but the most shocking ones are the ones that are carried out by the youth. Mark Knight released a cartoon (Herald Sun, 6/10/15) illustrating that the influence ISIS has over people is similar to someone being brainwashed. The second article is a letter to the editor (Herald Sun, 9/11/15) called “Teen Terror a school issue”, which demonstrates how the youth is being targeted for recruitment inside schools, raising awareness for the schools and youth to not be ISIS recruitment centres. The third article is an opinion piece written by Tareq N. Hasan (20/11/15) that demonstrates how Muslim Communities should do more to prove ISIS is not Islam. These opinion pieces share the same contention and link with each other one way or another.

Although the Islamic State’s main area of operation is in Iraq and Syria, they have affiliates in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and parts of Africa. Much of this support comes from members of the Taliban defecting, and Boko Haram committing itself to support the Islamic State. As a whole, 1,000 terrorists from various locations across the globe join each month. The group has convinced several teenagers to leave their homes and join; if they become disillusioned and attempt to leave, the group kills them. The more territory

Every terrorist group that have had brutal impacts on the country have been established based on tribal or religious dissatisfaction: the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) is one of such which fomented troubles aimed at securing recognition for the South-South from the Federal Government; Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has also staged series of attacks to facilitate the secession of the South-East towards achieving a sovereign Biafran State. The Islamic Boko Haram sect in the North-West has also been a clog in the wheel of the nation’s progress ever since they launched attack in 2009 with death tolls rising fast. It is pertinent to note that the division Nigeria suffers led it to a Civil War that lasted