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March 15, 2016

Can Terrorists Be “Deradicalized”?

Can we trust German social scientists to cure jihadists?

In the recent trial of Abdirizak Mohamed Warsame, the ringleader of a group of Minnesota Muslims who were planning to join Islamic State (IS) and possibly carry out an attack on the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport (where Warsame was employed), Judge Michael Davis sentenced the defendant to participate in a program of deradicalization. This program was to be devised and supervised by Daniel Koehler, a German social scientist who runs a center for deradicalization in his own country. Scott W. Johnson comments:

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March 15, 2016

  1. Can Terrorists Be “Deradicalized”?

    Can we trust German social scientists to cure jihadists?

  2. Hopelessness and Disdain: The President’s View of the Arabs

    And his satisfaction at turning a blind eye to mass murder.

  3. Responding to British Marxists’ “Papal Edict” against Israel

    Advocating war rather than peace.

  4. An Ultra-Orthodox Woman Reflects on Judaism and Sexuality

    Circle, Arrow, Spiral.

  5. A Hiker Discovers a Rare Roman Coin in the Galilee

    Possibly from the suppression of the Bar Kokhba revolt.