Why do some young people become jihadis? Psychiatry offers answers | Kamran Ahmed

Muslims growing up in western countries have to juggle competing cultural influences. This process may hold the key to defeating radicalisation As the dust settles on the traumatising attack in Manchester, we are left grieving and searching for an explanation for this senseless violence. Some will have you believe that Islam is at fault since verses of the Qur'an legitimise such violence, while their opponents point out that the ideology fuelling these acts of terror is a twisted perversion of t...