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Police escort a man on the tarmac of an airport of the Spanish enclave of Melilla suspected of recruiting women for the armed jihadist group Islamic State on July 22, 2015.

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Analysis & Opinions - Agence Global

More evidence on how not to fight ISIS

| December 5, 2015

"Two important new reports in the United States this week clarify the difficulties involved in defeating ISIS or at least reducing its impact around the world. The first is a study by the Program on Extremism at George Washington University that analyzes the range of individuals who were involved in legal action against them, showing that there is no single profile of a typical ISIS recruit. Rather, the very wide range of people who explore ISIS and similar ideologies suggests that no single strategy — like social media counter-narratives or more public activism by “moderate” Muslims — will succeed in reducing this threat..."