I remember once one of my classmates — a very fiery, radicalized fellow, who has since moved to the suburbs and become dull and rich — was haranguing a group of us about organizing, when one of the more authoritarian people on the Educational Committee came into the room.
After Mr. Merah turned out to be the killer, however — the very kind of radicalized child of immigrants that the right and far right have warned about — the foreign minister, Alain Juppé, called such insinuations of politicization "ignoble," adding, "Let's not add the disgusting to the horrific".
Durkin argued Khan, now 19, has been evaluated by a nationally recognized forensic psychologist who concluded that Khan, while "very immature," has not become radicalized and does not pose a present danger.
And finally, we face a real threat from radicalized individuals here in the United States.
Finally, we face a real threat from radicalized individuals here in the United States.
Because this style of rifle is light and easy to use, he said, "it can be used by people who are not necessarily highly trained, and that is helpful not just to a radicalized Islamist but it is also very helpful for elderly people defending their home, for a single mother who's trying to protect her family".
"When we talk about radicalized Islamic ideologies, it's a very small population within Islam," she said.
These can be individuals, radicals--radicalized by events abroad, or lone-wolf attacks.
"If we have self-radicalized individuals in this country, then they are going to be very difficult to find ahead of time, and, how easy it is for them to find weapons is, in some cases, going to make a difference as to whether they are going to be able to carry out attacks like this," he said.
Or to make plain the real fruits of torture (new jihadist recruits and increasingly radicalized Muslims).
