WhatsApp messages reveal ‘Lego’ Islam extremists

Academic study of Jihadist phone exchanges suggest little knowledge of Koran

Wed, Jul 12, 2017, 18:19

Derek Scally in Berlin

A group of German academics studied almost 6,000 WhatsApp messages found on a phone, seized last year by police from its owner, who was involved in a terror attack last year. Photograph: Brent Lewin/Bloomberg

A group of German academics studied almost 6,000 WhatsApp messages found on a phone, seized last year by police from its owner, who was involved in a terror attack last year. Photograph: Brent Lewin/Bloomberg

Many young radicalised Muslims have only a rudimentary knowledge of the Koran, a new study suggests, and piece together their own “Lego Islam” to justify their involvement in terror attacks.

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