RADICALISATION IN MODERN SOCIETY
Communities demonstrate a very significant part to radicalization in the contemporary societies. A society which compels citizens to actively engage in volunteer services in order to fulfill their civil responsibilities. However, in the urgency to respond to such expectations, sometimes intentionally or unintentionally terrorism and radicalization take the lime light. A very little empirical study has been critically evaluated to understand the reflection of such community engagement in the modern world (Crawford, 1997). In communities like UK and USA, social problems like crime, terrorism, and radicalization have always been categorized as a voluntary attempt (Prior et al., 2006). Researchers have shown that in the current modern setting, it the state instability which is the greatest determining factor for terrorism (Piazza, 2007). Worldwide terrorism attaches mostly occur due to the weakened and failed systems in countries (LaFree et al. 2010). Gelfand et al., (2011) indentified the two main differentiating cultural boundaries : ‘tight’ with strong ethics and low tolerance to varying behavior and ‘loose’ which has higher tolerance to the deviant behavior. The tighter cultures are more prone to autocratic governments as compared to …show more content…
To nullify such extremist point of views, the government of United Kingdom supported policies to involve Muslims communities in helping to fight extremism in order to portray such communities as allies of anti-radicalization rather than supporters of terrorism (Joffe , G., 2013).The understanding of this statement, it is clearer to understand that terrorism by Muslims is more of a political game of thrones than a true fact (Spalek and Imtoual,
Communities demonstrate a very significant part to radicalization in the contemporary societies. A society which compels citizens to actively engage in volunteer services in order to fulfill their civil responsibilities. However, in the urgency to respond to such expectations, sometimes intentionally or unintentionally terrorism and radicalization take the lime light. A very little empirical study has been critically evaluated to understand the reflection of such community engagement in the modern world (Crawford, 1997). In communities like UK and USA, social problems like crime, terrorism, and radicalization have always been categorized as a voluntary attempt (Prior et al., 2006). Researchers have shown that in the current modern setting, it the state instability which is the greatest determining factor for terrorism (Piazza, 2007). Worldwide terrorism attaches mostly occur due to the weakened and failed systems in countries (LaFree et al. 2010). Gelfand et al., (2011) indentified the two main differentiating cultural boundaries : ‘tight’ with strong ethics and low tolerance to varying behavior and ‘loose’ which has higher tolerance to the deviant behavior. The tighter cultures are more prone to autocratic governments as compared to …show more content…
To nullify such extremist point of views, the government of United Kingdom supported policies to involve Muslims communities in helping to fight extremism in order to portray such communities as allies of anti-radicalization rather than supporters of terrorism (Joffe , G., 2013).The understanding of this statement, it is clearer to understand that terrorism by Muslims is more of a political game of thrones than a true fact (Spalek and Imtoual,