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Radicalization Is a Process, Not a Moment Some of the brightest minds in the world have been radicalized. Not because they lacked intelligence, but because intelligence does not protect against influence, identity shifts, or personal vulnerability. Increasingly, those pathways are forming in places people trust, including universities, social advocacy networks, and online communities that appear legitimate but gradually reinforce more extreme worldviews. Radicalization does not start with violence. It starts with a shift in how someone sees the world. Complex issues become simplified. Nuance disappears. Everything becomes a binary of good versus evil or oppressed versus oppressor. Over time, people begin to reject outside perspectives and rely only on information that reinforces what they already believe. From there, reinforcement takes over. People do not radicalize in isolation. They find networks that validate their thinking, whether online or in person, and those networks narrow their worldview even further. Disagreement is no longer debate. It becomes proof that others are part of the problem. What often accelerates this process is personal grievance. Setbacks, isolation, or frustration become reframed as systemic injustice. Extremist narratives do not create those grievances, but they weaponize them. They validate the frustration and slowly shift the logic so that violence is no longer seen as wrong, but as justified or even necessary. This is the part most people miss. By the time someone is openly supporting a terrorist group or discussing an attack, they are already deep into the process. At that point, you are not preventing terrorism. You are discovering it. Real prevention happens earlier. It happens when you recognize the pattern. Isolation into echo chambers. Rigid thinking. Justification of violence. Curiosity about vulnerabilities or past attacks. No single behavior defines the threat, but together they form a trajectory. We recently broke this down on @The_Watch_Floor (link posted below), focusing on how radicalization actually develops and what to look for before it reaches the operational stage. Because if we are only looking for the final step, like what unfolded outside the White House Correspondence Dinner last night, we are already too late.

@MJalalAf You have over 200,000 terrorists in your country from 30 different terrorists groups, pipe down, and be thankful ONLY Pakistan is striking you as many more should be

$999 might sound like a lot for a fully custom fit wheelchair. But it's 80% cheaper than it used to be. Iykyk.

I'm a convinced atheist and here is my drop: The world looks exactly as it should if no gods/god exist. Cold, indifferent, and brutally random. Stars explode and wipe out entire planets for no reason. Kids get cancer while rapists live to 90. One tiny rock in a sea of deadly vacuum somehow sprouts life that mostly suffers and dies. Atoms are 99.9% empty space, wasteful bullshit. Prayers change nothing. Miracles only happen in stories or blurry videos. If an all-powerful, all-loving God was running things, we’d see order, justice, and mercy. Instead we see chaos, suffering, and silence. Exactly what blind physics and dumb luck would produce. No divine architect. No cosmic parent watching over us. Just a messy universe doing its thing, and us temporary bags of meat trying to make sense of it before we blink out forever. That's reality. Deal with it.

@al_ha_am 💀

Says a cunt who still has hairs from bajwa’s nuts sack stuck in his teeth like a broken floss wire

"The only effective solution against evil and violent people is good people more skilled in violence. " -Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings.

The Pakistani cope is neverending. They have to really outdo themselves in mental gymnastics to avoid explaining why people on both sides are distrustful of Pakistan and would like Pakistan to take a step back.

ایک ایسا ہی نشتر خواجہ آصف صاحب کا افغانستان سے امریکی انخلاء پر بھی دیکھنے کو ملا تھا “ طاقتیں تمھاری اور خدا ہمارا ہے “ مگر پھر خواجہ آصف صاحب کو اسمبلی فلور پر کھڑے ہوکر افغانیوں کو کوسنے دینے پڑے جو دنیا نے دیکھے ، اب خواجہ سعد رفیق صاحب نے بھی ایک ایسا ہی نشتر اپنے ہنر کدہ سے برآمد کیا ہے ، خدا نہ کرے اس نشتر کا انجام بھی وہی ہو جو افغانیوں کی خون کی سفیدی نے خواجہ آصف صاحب کو دکھایا ۔ @KhSaad_Rafique @KhawajaMAsif

Abu Mahdi, key advisor to Qasim Solemani, when asked if he’d destroy Israel before he gets “martyred” in 5 years, replied: “Not Israel. Riyadh. Saudi.” “What about America?” “Saudi, Saudi.“

ویسے تو اسلام میں جُوا حرام ہے لیکن بہت سے مسلمان اللّٰہ پر صرف اسلئے ایمان لے آتے ہیں، کہ آخر میں وہ کہیں سچ میں ہی نہ نکل آئے

Great words from Sheikh @Ghaith19919 about the Jews and Israel.

Iranian woman tells a white liberal woman "You don't speak for us. We are very happy with President Trump. We want to name cities after him."

I’m Muslim Palestinian. I was banned on X.

@zafarChitta1 🖤

40-60 % of Israels oil imports come from Azerbaijan via BTC but Iran instead of targeting them and choking Israel would prefer attacking Arab states. Because Irans actions are not based upon any anti-Israel Islamic ideology but rather its own personal interests and hegemony in the ME.

@HoneyBeeeRights sinking ship

Right 💅🏻

“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.” — Milton Friedman

@HoneyBeeeRights 😭

@HExtremous once in a blue moon 😭 bro he is a breadth of fresh air in pak's toxic mullahsphere

Most often Ghamidi sb is found white washing Islam to fit the the western values. But once in a blue moon he does talk sense.