Use of the term ‘brother’ among extremists is frequently fairly literal: terrorist recruitment is highly social,with parents and siblings often joining forcesMilitants often call each other “brother”, and refer collectively to the “brothers” in Syria, or Afghanistan,Iraq or France. Why?Partly this is to indicate solidarity, attachment to a common cause, and a sense of shared identity and endeavour. Partly it’s because that’s how young men speak,all over the world, but particularly in the kind of environments from which many contemporary militants near.
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Source: theguardian.com