![]() ![]() Marc Sageman, a forensic psychiatrist and former CIA case officer, agrees that the "conveyor belt" theory is flawed. ![]() It emphasised that the several hundred terrorists it analysed "had taken strikingly different journeys to violent extremist activity" few had followed "a typical pathway to violent extremism". Then there is the 2008 study by MI5's behavioural science unit. In July 2010, a leaked memo prepared by officials for coalition ministers on the cabinet's home affairs subcommittee concluded that it was wrong " to regard radicalisation in this country as a linear 'conveyor belt' moving from grievance, through radicalisation, to violence … This thesis seems to both misread the radicalisation process and to give undue weight to ideological factors". ![]() ![]() The prime minister summed it up in his speech on security in Munich in February: "As evidence emerges about … those convicted of terrorist offences, it is clear that many of them were initially influenced by what some have called 'non-violent extremists', and they then took those radical beliefs to the next level by embracing violence."īut this isn't the case. ![]()
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