We must act to stop radicalisation through smartphones, terror watchdog says
The observer of the laws of terrorism said that the society warned the society about “grasping in pipettes” in the approach to young people who are drawn to extremism through smart phones.
Speaking before the 20th anniversary of the July 7 attacks, Jonathan Hall KC said that the current pro -excessive recruitment methods were “one million miles” from those used before 2005.
Suicide Bomber Mohammed Sidique Khan, 30, 22 -year -old Shehzad Tanweer, 18 -year -old Hasib Hussain and 19 -year -old Jermaine Lindsay, took off on three tube train and bus, killed 52 people in the worst terrorist persecution in the British lands.
Ringleader and the employer Khan looked like a mast of the community, and he took local youth out of crimes and drugs, but he was a fanatic, in fact a fanatical.
Mr. Hall, PA news agency, smartphones, the extensive existence of radicalization has transformed since then, he said.
Hall, “the basic distinction of the period of 7/7 smartphone period,” he said.
“This has changed the landscape. It caused a different radicalization model.
“7/7 and Mohammad Sidique Khan had a youth club, gone and rafting together.
“Such outdoors, personally, group maintenance activities, one million miles away from the world of online radicalization.
“I am not aware of a sane person who claims that many young people are involved in terrorism, or that extreme violence is not ideological, is not related to the internet and the ready -made usability of smartphones.
“There is a very vivid debate about ethics, legality and the best practices that the response is best.
“But right now, as a society to find out what the right reaction is, we are definitely in the pipettes and struggling.
“No one in their right minds would not allow their children to allow a stranger to their bedrooms, but that’s what we do with phones.”
The attacks said that the deadly threat of terrorists raised at home revealed the “terrible clarity”.
“He did it 24/7, and it turns out with the terrible clarity that our citizens are willing to kill us.
“This is a very disturbing insight, as it is today, but now you need to bring British citizens inspired by extreme right -wing ideology to join the dominant Islamist threat.
“But that was a real hit from 7/7. I think the host really brought the idea of a threat.”
Commander Dominic Murphy said that on July 7 was a “seminal moment için for the fight against terrorism, and that it led to a series of changes in 2017 after five terrorist attacks in the UK.
Although Islamist groups are still the main threat to England, right -wing terrorism is a growing problem and that young people are concerned about the extremism.
While 39 of 248 people who were arrested in 2024 due to terrorism crimes were 17 years and under, children between the ages of 11-15 constituted the largest rate of those who refer to the anti-Eximizm scheme (2,729 out of 6,884).
Murphy, “the main threat of Islamist continues to be. We see an increasing right -wing terrorist problem,” he said.
“We also see more and more young people who participate in this right -wing threat, which is deeply interested for us.
“But, of course, we see people who do not have a clear or fixed ideology.
“We cannot clearly say that they are an Islamist terrorist, we cannot clearly say that they are attributed to a right -wing ideology.
“However, they consume large amounts of violent media online and have a mixed or uncertain ideology – of course, this means that we still have to worry about the threat to the public.
“Even since 2017, it has been very diverse and I think the online environment and the world atmosphere add a brand new square layer to the threat we encounter.”
