{"id":12946,"date":"2016-02-11T08:15:47","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T08:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=12946"},"modified":"2016-02-11T08:15:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T08:15:47","slug":"teenagers-can-be-radicalised-by-isis-within-a-month-acn-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2016\/02\/11\/teenagers-can-be-radicalised-by-isis-within-a-month-acn-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenagers can be radicalised by ISIS within a month &#8211; ACN Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h2><strong>\u2018Teenagers can be radicalised by ISIS within a month,\u2019 Cardinal Nichols warns <\/strong><strong>teachers\u2019 conference<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, warned delegates at the Secondary Leaders\u2019 Conference of the Catholic Association of Teachers, Schools and Colleges about the dangers ISIS recruiters pose to vulnerable secondary school students. He stated that \u201cone month is all it takes to transform a dissatisfied and disorientated teenager into a terrorist\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Cardinal Nichols based this alarming statement on his discussions with young people who had been invited to join ISIS. Children, typically aged 14 or 15, were being recruited at astonishing speed. \u201cOne said that it was clearly possible to bring a person to the point of being willing to leave all for the sake of their newfound cause, even to the point of embracing violence or suicide, within a four- or five-week period\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A combination of \u00a0many factors makes teenagers particularly vulnerable to jihadist recruiters including\u00a0 naivety, isolation, loss of shared values and easy access to the internet. Many ISIS recruits felt isolated by the modern world: they longed to be part of something greater and \u201cmay be finding life to be rather flat, functional and boring\u201d said the Cardinal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is to teenagers such as these that the call of a definitive, demanding faith, one which asks for a heroic sacrifice in a wide cause for victory \u2026 is cast as a true fulfillment of all the unfocused yearning within them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Cardinal Nichols warned teachers that terrorist groups were targeting teenagers because they considered them to be \u201cclean skins,\u201d people whose life thus far left them \u201cas yet unformed by substantive values\u201d. Islamic terrorists were using the Internet to propose the existence of \u201ca coherent, or at least seemingly coherent, whole\u201d, offering vulnerable teenagers a narrative \u201cwhich compels and captivates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ability to relate to teenagers can obviously be put to good use, but \u201cit is also the skill of the recruiters of violence\u201d Cardinal Nichols said. To combat the threat of radicalisation, Catholic educators must have the courage to propose an authentic Christian purpose to their young students that is just as captivating as the false narrative of the terrorists.This Christian vision would include the cultivation of a relationship with Jesus and the development of a sense of Christian vocation.<\/p>\n<p>.\u201cThe degree to which you achieve this, as many of you do, is the degree to which our schools will never be sending into the world \u2018clean skins\u2019 ready to be seduced by a corrupt and inhuman ideology, or by any other lesser versions of violence and degrading inhumanity that stalk our streets and our world today,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>To counter the rise of Islamic extremism in schools, the UK Government is insisting that such \u201cBritish values\u201d as tolerance, freedom and respect for the rule of law are taught from an early age.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>ACN Malta<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Teenagers can be radicalised by ISIS within a month,\u2019 Cardinal Nichols warns teachers\u2019 conference &nbsp; The Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, warned delegates at the Secondary Leaders\u2019 Conference of the Catholic Association of Teachers, Schools and Colleges about the dangers ISIS recruiters pose to vulnerable secondary school students. 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