Faced with such heinous and terrible attacks for reasons unexplained to us, many will wonder how terrorists manage to attract supporters to the world.
Unfortunately, terrorist attacks appear in the media much more than we would like, in fact, precisely because of repetition and continuous exposure, we have reached a worrying point of desensitization, the rare has become commonplace and the usual always seems less serious.
- The combination of little information and shocking images has become common.
- The consequences are misinformation and declining interest.
- However.
- Terrorism is not a phenomenon that security and the leaders of major countries can combat.
- Neighbors.
Terrorism is a phenomenon that, in general and at its source, can be far from the West. Despite this, there are people who lived it up close. Many people who roam the streets of the West every day never imagined that terrorist attacks could affect them, that they could threaten, frighten them, as well as compassion for “distant victims. “
This so-called detachment, coupled with misinformation, transforms terrorism into a phenomenon of the marginalized, the poor and immigrants.
But is it real? If we take Europe as an example, most terrorists are neither poor nor socially marginalized, nor immigrants; most are middle-class, seemingly well-adapted people and have the nationality of the country where they live and commit the attack. it’s scary: a terrorist isn’t that different from us. It could be anyone we find on the street.
This statement leads us to an important question: how do sympathetic terrorists attract?The answer is in the susceptibility to be recruited. While the news we see generally describes people who have planned and carried out attacks on their own, the reality is that behind these people there are others who manipulate them.
Initially, recruiters from terrorist organizations select people who appear to be the most vulnerable; these people often go through difficult times, such as being about to be arrested, living in a new country, ending a marriage, or suffering stress because they do. not live up to the expectations of the family. In any case, we are talking about an ordinary person, normally adapted, but who, at the time of recruitment, is, in a sense, isolated and blames the circumstances.
Certainly, recruiters are looking for vulnerable people who don’t like the conditions in which they live in the present moment.
Recruiters will be in charge of approaching these people and will function, at an early stage, as support, will initially aggravate your pain. People who have a hard time usually have very little self-control, stressful events happen without them being able to do anything to prevent them, so their sense of uncontrollability increases, recruiters will somehow enhance this sense of uncontrollability, and then present themselves as the only way out, as the solution to the problem.
The feeling of marginalization and under self-control will affect not only your immune system, but also your psychological system, your defenses, both physical and psychological, will decrease, so it will increase the feeling of danger and anxiety, the person will feel fragile and helpless. .
This situation is known as aversion. If a person remains in aversive situation for a long time, they will eventually suffer from organic, cognitive and emotional disorders, which will make the person more suggestive and easier to trust recruiters.
In these circumstances, it is normal for the person to lose security by realizing that he cannot control the situation, the second consequence is the loss of personal identity, we are talking about a person who has lost contact with reality and is socially isolated. : he is a person who has no motivation for his personal achievements and is therefore easy to convince.
While these processes are taking place, will this person also have negative, very strong or proactive emotions, such as hatred, anger, doubt and aversion, but will there also be other negative emotions such as humiliation, fear and frustration.
In parallel with these processes, recruiters will give you a motivation to live, offer you an identity as a member of a group, offer you prestige and social support, give you simple and strict rules of life, at the same time. , print an ideology that will justify violence against those who have marginalized them.
The image we have is that of a useless person, with a negative attitude, not focused on tasks, frustrated and therefore irritable and aggressive. The consequence of all this is that he begins to think compulsively that his ailments are caused by his social environment. environment and for the people who are part of it. Recruiters can take advantage of this situation in favor of their mission.
Recruiters or collectors have a hard time that everyone can live, exploit this situation to leave the person without psychological and social resources, having no way of defending themselves offer them a way out of this situation: they offer the opportunity to take revenge on those who have marginalized them, to start over and repair all their mistakes. That’s why prevention starts in our immediate environment. Social support and psychological resources can prevent further harm.