A new report from the RCMP and its Five Eyes allies warns about the growing threat of young people, including minors, being drawn to support terrorism. The report highlights the vulnerability of young people to online radicalization and the use of social media and gaming platforms by extremist recruiters.
When RCMP Supt. Jean-Guy Isaya first started as a police officer 20 years ago, school outreach involved drug safety programs. Now the Mountie says there’s a growing need to teach counter-radicalization. It’s why the RCMP, along with its Five Eyes allies, put out a report earlier this month warning about the rising prominence of young people drawn to support terrorism.
Security agencies from Canada and other members of the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance say they've seen a 'rising prominence' of young people and minors in counterterrorism cases.When RCMP Supt. Jean-Guy Isaya first started as a police officer 20 years ago, school outreach involved drug safety programs.'We believe that young people and minors pose the same threat as adults,' said Isaya, who works in the RCMP's national security team.It's why the RCMP and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, along with other Five Eyes intelligence and law enforcement agencies,The Five Eyes alliance, which includes Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States, warns that minors are particularly vulnerable to online radicalization. Extremist recruiters can turn innocuous social media and gaming platforms like Discord, Instagram, Roblox and TikTok into breeding grounds of hate.Isaya said kids as young as 12 are being drawn to a 'buffet of ideology' including religious fundamentalism and white supremacy. The alliance said it was putting out the report in the hope younger people can be diverted before the threat becomes so grave that law enforcement and security agencies need to act. The report is meant as an SOS to governments, social services, health-care workers and educators.a youth from the Greater Toronto AreaDavid O'Brien, director of mental health at Yorktown Family Services, is working to stop headlines like tha
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