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SUMMARY: Nearly a third of the 15,000 foreign fighters for Islamic State are Muslims from Western Europe, seeking an alternative to the alienation some feel here at home. Chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner reports from London on how cultural isolation and discrimination can help drive young Western recruits to embrace radicalism.
JUDY WOODRUFF (News Hour): The Paris attacks a few weeks ago brought Europe’s growing Islamic extremist threat into sharp focus.
Our chief foreign affairs correspondent, Margaret Warner visited another European country, the United Kingdom, to see what’s driving young Muslims there to extremism and what’s being done about it.
Tonight, we bring you the first of her two reports.
MARGARET WARNER (News Hour): It’s a gruesome scene become too familiar since august.
Kneeling hostages, NewsHour policy is not to show these videos, and a masked killer from the Islamic State — speaking in English.
The British voices shocked people here — awakening them to the fact that close to one third of the estimated 15,000 foreign fighters for Islamic state or ISIS. Are Muslims from Western Europe seeking an alternative to their sense of alienation at home?
PETER NEUMANN: The solution to this is that Muslims unite, rediscover their Muslim identity, completely divorce themselves from any form of western identity and start defending their identity if necessary by violent means.
Peter Neumann whose center for the study of radicalization at King’s College, London monitors nearly 700 foreign fighters through social media says Islamic State has crafted a powerful appeal.
"U.K. government and community groups struggle to stop Islamic radicalization spike" (2 of 2) PBS NewsHour 1/27/2015
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SUMMARY: British authorities say that hundreds of Muslims have left the United Kingdom to join jihadist groups in Syria. As counterterrorism officials try to track the flow of potential fighters in and out of the country, some in the British Muslim community are working to help young people resist the call of radicalization. Chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner reports from London.
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