In Western Europe, there are thousands of young men like the
one that has been captured in Boston or his dead brother.
They are the children of immigrant families that came from
afar. Most of those families just ran away from poverty. But many others have
left behind violent conflict experiences, be it in the Middle East, in South
Asia or in Africa. Or maybe closer by, in the Balkans or the Caucasus. Their
sons – it’s indeed a boy’s problem – might have been born in Europe and raised
in a peaceful and democratic context but some of them feel uprooted and
excluded. They end up by aligning themselves with those who express extremist
views about the West. For some, the war in Syria has been an opportunity to
join what they believe to be a Cause. Others have been elsewhere, including in
Pakistan. These fronts have made them harder and more willing to take action.
As such, they represent a major security challenge to the Western European
societies. And the experience has shown that this is a challenge that is
difficult to match.
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