It was not so much, then, that people like the rapper Denis Cuspert and Dunya were “brainwashed” into an “ideology” of radicalism; they simply lacked the intellectual and psychological coping skills to channel their newly found beliefs into more productive and legal means: activism, charity work, human rights law, citizen journalism. They didn’t have the living room culture, the ethical conditioning passed down through good enough families. They were not raised to understand that the correct response to terrible injustice was not wanton violence. Arguably, they didn’t even have good enough
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