I’ve been pointing out for years that deradicalization programs are an abysmal failure everywhere they have been implemented. From the Jihad Watch archives:
Gitmo prisoner reveals: Saudi “deradicalization program” is really a jihad training program
11 ex-Gitmo prisoners flee the Saudi “rehabilitation program” and join up with terrorist groups
Jaw-dropper: 25 former Gitmo detainees “return to militancy” despite Saudi rehab program!
Flight 253 jihadist wasn’t cured by Saudi anti-jihad art therapy
Former Guantanamo detainee now top al-Qaeda ideologue — “He was transferred to Saudi Arabia in 2006 where he was placed in a national rehabilitation project.”
Indonesian government admits that its jihadist rehab program is a failure
Malaysia: Muslim cleric active in deradicalization program promotes hatred of non-Muslims
France’s only jihadi “deradicalization” center is closing — it was voluntary, and it was empty
The whole premise of “deradicalization” is that Islam is a religion of peace that jihadis misunderstand, twist, and hijack. Since that is a false premise, and warfare against unbelievers is actually taught in the Qur’an and Sunnah, “deradicalization” focuses on other issues, such as “anger issues” that the jihadi may have, his feelings of “alienation,” and the like.
But since none of that changes what the Qur’an and Sunnah say about warfare against unbelievers, it doesn’t “deradicalize” the jihadi at all. A British psychologist behind a “deradicalization” scheme has admitted that there’s no guarantee that jihadis can ever be “cured.”
“CALL TO ARMS Vienna shooting: ISIS gunman ‘sent Charlie Hebdo massacre vid to accomplices’ hours before slaughtering 4,” by Henry Holloway, The Sun, November 3, 2020:
…At least 14 people have been arrested in 18 raids as more than 1,000 cops were deployed to probe the case….
Interior minister Karl Nehammer confirmed Fejzulai was an “ISIS sympathiser” and he had been released early from prison due to his young age.
The minister said Fejzulai had attended a de-radicalisation programme, but that “despite all the outward signs that he was integrating into society, the assailant apparently did exactly the opposite”
Nehammer added the fact he managed “deceive the judicial system’s deradicalization program to secure his release” should the system needs to be re-evaluated….
Falter reported he was in prison for just seven and a half months – less than half of his 22 month sentence – after being caught trying to join ISIS in 2019.
It reported he became radicalised as a teenager as he dealt with problems at school and at home, with his family not being strictly religious.
He is reported to have become a member of a mosque which was already being monitored by security services.
Fejzulai is reported to have admitted he had “got into the wrong mosque” when he appeared before a judge in 2019….
Fejzulai was being monitored by the security services, but was not deemed to be a domestic terror threat….
revereridesagain says
It is a basic rule of “deprogramming” of cult members that they not only be removed from the physical presence of the cult, but that all cult propaganda be removed from their presence. Trying to deprogram any cultist who still has access to the material is an uphill battle. At the very least, the deprogrammer must be free to question, challenge, and correct any cult materials present. “Deradicalization” programs aimed at Islam obviously persist in doing the opposite, with predictable results.