Psychology: How to become fanatics – OR

Holocaust, lynchings, assassinations – past and present are full of examples for blind and brutal violence. The question of how it can happen that man radicalized, loses all compassion and obsessively pursuing an ideologically berhhtes objective research employs a long time. “Fanaticism” is indeed not a scientific technical term. Still looking theologians and sociologists, psychiatrists and psychologists, Orientalists and even neurologists for answers. At the British University of Leeds, for example, examined the sociologist Andreas Armborst the long-term transformation of Islamism. The conditions DAFR that someone radicalized says Armborst, are individually very different. But there was certain Zndstoffe. If gengend zusammenkmen them, get the risk that someone excited for a fanatical worldview. This can be outrage, a certain degree of politicization and a certain biographical background. People who have a small criminal career behind him are apparently particularly strongly attracted by Salafism, a radical Strmung within Islam. What makes Salafism so attractive is its strict rules. There is no room for negotiation. Fall off the track “Straight people whose lives is out of the track, which themselves were already on the precipice or stand, think good for them a life according to these rules and that it would be good if they also keep all the others from doing so” says Armborst. In addition, the outrage is about the massive human rights violations, which are in the Middle East on the agenda. Muslims suffer, that suffering must be stopped – thats why the entire narrative of Islamists rotates. “When they start to deal with the political situation, and find that a huge injustice, then this is another step in the radicalization,” says Armborst. The worldview shifts, suddenly there are legitimate reasons apparently to seek stop destinations in the west. The fact that it is mainly young people who become terrorists is no wonder. Most young people turn away from the puberty of their usual environment, looking for points of friction, contrast, and want to be adapted in any way. Their behavior is spontaneous, impulsive and frequently not particularly reflected. Then depends a lot from them, on whom you meet, with whom arise which contacts and who is in the circle of friends for a role model. Charismatic Leaders of any scene have comparatively easy game here. That is also the Islamists known and is used selectively. “The work with its own media strategy, there are videos that are produced very complicated and precisely aimed at young people,” says Andreas Armborst. Fr adults turn be intellectually demanding videos offered, arguing rather theologically and politically. When Excluded zusammentunMit the feeling of exclusion has Andreas Heinz, Director of the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Charit in Berlin, employs ausfhrlich. “To be socially accepted and to be able to participate is a feeling that for us humans is extremely important. Social isolation is a stress factor that makes up everyday even at very mundane things noticeable, “says Heinz. So frequently is enough already moving into a new city, to feel left out. Forming several Excluded a group, which they feel strongly zugehrig, which is fertile ground for radical ideas. 1 | 2 Next page | ArtikelaufeinerSeite


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