{"id":2298,"date":"2014-12-02T06:50:30","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T11:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2298"},"modified":"2014-12-02T06:50:30","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T11:50:30","slug":"extremism-perception-vs-reality-inside-story-al-jazeera-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2298","title":{"rendered":"‘Extremism’: Perception vs reality? – Inside Story – Al Jazeera English"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Extremism’: Perception vs reality? – Inside Story – Al Jazeera English<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The rise of the Islamic State\u00a0of Iraq and the Levant\u00a0(ISIL) in Syria and Iraq is raising fears of radicalisation across Europe.<\/p>\n

The perception is of battle-hardened fighters returning from the frontline, full of anger and resentment, prepared to carry on the fight at home.<\/p>\n

Numbers vary, but it is estimated around 3,000 European citizens have taken up arms in Syria.<\/p>\n

The UK is leading European governments in drawing up measures to combat the potential threat posed by assumed radicals.<\/p>\n

In its latest report, the European Union’s law enforcement agency, Europol, categorised 152 “terrorist attacks” in EU member states in 2013.<\/p>\n

Of those, most were related to separatist groups, while “religious radicalisation” appeared to be evident in just two attacks.<\/p>\n

So how do authorites balance the perceived threat from a comparitively small numbers of fighters returning from abroad, against the threat from myriad groups, categorised as “extremist”, already established on their soil?<\/p>\n

…click on the above link to view the video…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘Extremism’: Perception vs reality? – Inside Story – Al Jazeera English. The rise of the Islamic State\u00a0of Iraq and the Levant\u00a0(ISIL) in Syria and Iraq is raising fears of radicalisation across Europe. The perception is of battle-hardened fighters returning from the frontline, full of anger and resentment, prepared to carry on the fight at home. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[281,1561,445,1560],"class_list":["post-2298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-europe","tag-extremism","tag-isil","tag-radicalisation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2299,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions\/2299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}