From the Jerusalem Post. Thanks to RH for pointing me towards it.
MOTRA found 33.6% to have latent Islamist views, where the inclination toward Islamism exists, but the radicalization is not yet openly visible. These combine to make 45.1%.
Asked what had driven the rise in Islamist views, de Vries said that Islamist influencers, present in social networks and gaming platforms, have caused a surge in such views . . .De Vries suggested that a social media ban for young people may be the way forward, given Germany has been seeing “13- and 14-year-old boys and girls become radicalized on social media to the point where they wanted to commit serious attacks.”
He also said there was a need to look more closely at what happens in mosques, especially those controlled by foreign governments. De Vries was referring to Germany’s main mosque association, the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB), which is subordinate to Diyanet, the Turkish Presidency of Religious Affairs, and is also financially dependent on it.
DITIB has around 1,000 mosques in Germany, and is sometimes called “the long arm of Erdogan.”
