Radicalization

Facebook Inc is starting to warn some users they might have seen "extremist content" on the social media site, the company said on Thursday.

The Government has approved the National Strategy and associated Action Plan to prevent and combat anti-Semitism, xenophobia, radicalization and hate speech, said Alexandru Muraru, honorary advisor to the Prime Minister, special representative of the Government for the Promotion of Memory Policies, Combating Anti-Semitism and Xenophobia.

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Social anthropologist Haralan Aleksandrov answers these and other questions in "Our Day" radio talk show:

"This community has no links to the institutions that might help her re-educate her children in the coming period. To do that here … will be very hard," he said.

Such complex work with returnees from Syria is a new experience for institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, although they have had two years to prepare work on "deradicalizing" Islamic State returnees.

30 French military members have joined jihadist organisations in Syria and Iraq since 2012, providing them with their experience and military knowledge, France Press reported, citing a report by the French Center for the Analysis of Terrorism.

The State Agency for National Security (SANS) will gain continuous access to the automated information funds of the Ministry of Education and Science (MES) in order to monitor radicalization among students. This was understood by the words of the Deputy Minister of Education Denitsa Sacheva before the BNR.

"So, the terrorist groups have just moved from one platform to another," Farid, a senior advisor to the Counter Extremism Project, told BIRN.

Bosnia, however, is still playing catch-up, bereft of the legislative framework to tackle online radicalisation, according to a BIRN analysis.

"There is a radicalization on the territory of the Balkan countries. This has been found, there are also cases of terrorist activities of returning foreign Syrian fighters. We are usually talking about radical Islam. In this case, we are talking about an anti-Muslim radical act that is just as dangerous as radical Islam.

The US State Department's 2017 terrorism country reports, released on Wednesday, show that many European countries remain concerned about returning foreign terrorist fighters, while the main issue in the Balkans appears to be a lack of resources.

A Virginia man investigated by the FBI after his family reported that he had converted to Islam and may have been radicalized has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, two years after Turkey blocked his entry.