Jeremy Seabrook considers the myths of radicalization.
Media and political discussion about how young Muslims in Britain – and not only men – are ‘radicalized’ is characterized by the same shallow ineptitude that marks our engagement with Islam in the rest of the world.
‘Radicalization’ is assumed to mean ‘the making of terrorists’. It does not. There is a long ideological continuum in every totalizing belief-system, secular and religious.
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