In the Media: Thomas Renard and Colin P. Clarke on 'Fast-Food Terrorism'

Recently, the Los Angeles Times and the Korea Times published an opinion piece co-authored by ICCT director Thomas Renard and Colin P. Clarke of the Soufan Centre, coining the term "fast-food terrorism" to describe how radicalisation has become faster, younger, and increasingly detached from coherent ideology. The piece highlights how minors now make up a growing share of counterterrorism caseloads across Europe, radicalising online in a matter of weeks rather than months or years, often driven more by anger, status-seeking, or aesthetic fascination with violence than by any real ideological commitment. Renard and Clarke also point to the rise of nihilistic violent extremism - groups like 764 - as a symptom of this shift, arguing that the digitalisation of society is making young people more vulnerable to radicalisation while making that radicalisation harder to define and counter.

Read the full articles here:

• The Los Angeles Times

• The Korea Times