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Why Converts To Islam Are So Susceptible To Becoming Terrorists

03 February 2016

EFD Senior Policy Advisor Lorenzo Vidino is mentioned in an article published by ThinkProgress concerning the tendency of converts to Islam to radicalise.

"I think it’s fair to say that certain converts…tend to be more vulnerable to certain interpretations of Islam", Vidino told ThinkProgress. "They don’t have [an understanding of] the foundations [of Islam and so] they’re more easily lured into buying an extremist interpretation of the faith."

The article is in English and can be read here.