Homegrown terrorist: Toronto 18 bomb plotter Saad Khalid recalls his radicalization

Good interview with one of the participants in the Toronto 18 bomb plotting case, Saad Khalid, on the radicalization process, with the usual knowledgeable and thoughtful comments by Lorne Dawson:

His [Khalid’s] story in many ways offers parallels with how Lorne Dawson, a professor and chair of the sociology and legal studies department at the University of Waterloo, describes the concept of homegrown terrorism and how individuals are motivated to choose that path.

“These are young people who are mainly men. They are remarkably ordinary,” Dawson says.

“They’re pretty much like most other young people. If we’re going to explain why someone would become a terrorist, particularly a homegrown terrorist, the process of radicalization, then you’ve got to look at individual motivations.

“With each layer of explanation, you’re reducing the pool of potential candidates for who could become a terrorist. So it’s like a funnel.”

Homegrown terrorist: Toronto 18 bomb plotter Saad Khalid recalls his radicalization – Canada – CBC News.