The emergence of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has raised multiple new issues in the fight against religious extremism and terrorism. Perhaps one of the most important issues remains the terror group’s sickening brutality and its uncanny appeal to some Muslim youths across the world, who are flocking to the Middle East to join ISIS. According to McCoy (2014), up to 3000 youths from Europe and North America (including 700, 800, 400 and 70 youths from France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the US respectively) had travelled to Syria and joined ISIS by the close Continue reading...