Where are they radicalised?

December, 13:
A Bangladesh immigrant set off a crude bomb in one of the heaviest guarded areas in the world—the New York subway. Security agencies are now investigating Akayed Ullah, who said he carried out the attack in the name of the Islamic State

Extremism in the United States

Bangladesh police are investigating whether Ullah was radicalised in his Muslim-majority homeland, where foreigners have been among those targeted in deadly assaults claimed by the Islamic State group and Al Qaeda. While many reports say that Bangladesh has now become a hotspot for IS, the Bangladeshi government continues to vehemently deny it.

Ullah arrived in the United States seven years ago. A recent report by the Department of Homeland Security found that most foreign-born violent extremists do not arrive in the US radicalised, but become radicalised after living in the country for several years, according to CNN

Top IS jihadist born in Texas

For example, one of Islamic State’s top jihadists John Georgelas aka Abu Yahya was born into an upper middle class family in Texas. Yahya was financed by rich Gulf Arabs in Texas to study Islam, according to a report in The Atlantic written by Graeme Wood. Initially attracted to Sufism, Yahya soon turned to Dhahirism, an “ultra-literalist legal school”