Terrorist Movements Today: Self-Radicalization and Symbiotic Relationship

... issue. For instance, we had one particular case in 2012, in Belgium, where the court’s decision concerning five people who were charged with terrorism-related offences was altered and they were charged with using radicalization material. Now, what the European Union as an institution did is recognize that Internet radicalization is a significant threat, and terrorism was formalized in its 2002 Framework Decision on combating terrorism. It was also the only international organization that actually criminalized terrorism. If you go back to 9/11, at the time, only about five EU member states had terrorism even ...