Dear Earthlings,
As I was scouring the internet, I stumbled across what is claimed to be the largest European scientific study on violent youth radicalization and the YEIP project launched by IARS institute coordinated by one Theo Gavrielides. I just went through the e-book and here are my findings.
I was impressed to find out that these researchers were trying to avoid repeating the same mistakes again and again in the fight against radicalization. They also made the intriguing discovery that the extremist virus was not alien but a product of the European way of living. Reverend Theo also goes down on his knees and asks for young people's forgiveness (p. 16).
Social exclusion is blamed for radicalization (p.17). The holy man detests the tough approach and believes that it is counterproductive. He suggests developing youth talents and skills. I began to wonder whether if this wasn't one of those NGOs created to siphon off the money thrown by the EU. Had Theo himself failed in the endeavor to relinquish the power of the Euro and remove his Eurocentric hat (p. 25)?
He again attempts to be patronising by refusing to single out any particular community (p. 29). He reveals his great personal preference for not stigmatizing the Muslim world as it only encourages discrimination and violent extremism. Is research supposed to be based on facts or on political considerations? What kind of social exclusion has led to the radicalization in the Maldives? How come the Chinese have had such great success in Xinjiang despite the toughest approach?
I realized that the young Master Theo was an instrument of EU propaganda. Using such fancy concepts like restorative justice, GLM, and positive psychology, he was only trying to peddle some hocus pocus to fool the European masses. There is a deceptive attempt to club right, left and Islamic terrorism in the social exclusion basket. How can extremist propaganda be eliminated when Allah claims exclusive worship rights (p. 39)?
Suggesting sports as an antidote and then berating football hooliganism is a blatant contradiction. Perhaps Theo has never heard of the Pakistani cricket team and Imran Khan or he would not have given this ridiculous suggestion. He makes very humble confessions that no one knows the definition of radicalisation, but he ignores that the CIA knew how to radicalise the Afghans against Russia.
Then he gets a sudden epiphany that there is a terrorist within him espousing 'universal' values like equality, diversity, human rights, gender justice and the like (p. 51). The very next moment, he goes back into his schizophrenic attack and assumes that the primary goals of life are the same for every one. Every one just wants to be good. We are back to the sermon on the mount. Oh, he is confused, was it the good life model or the good economic model or equal life model?
SSSH! PLEASE DON'T TELL THE REVEREND THAT MUHAMMAD IS THE GOOD LIFE MODEL FOR MUSLIMS.
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