Youth and Terrorism.

In today's world where terrorism has become the essential ingredients of the news headlines, where we all are living on the edge of a blade-called terror. It can come in any form, be it a bomb blast, a land mine, a bullet from AK-47 or keeping hostages. The one thing which is common across the world of terrorism is the large involvement of youth. It is constantly been seen that a large number of young people specially the age group of 20 to 35 is playing this game of terror. This significant change is because it is very easy to change the bend of mind of these young people. The terror gurus take advantage of the conditions of these young men and with their evil preaching's they brainwash them and force them into the ugly world of terror.

Training: It is easy for them to train the young blood as the training involves a lot of physical exercise, mental stability and focus. These young people are highly brainwashed and they see all this as their holy 'Jehad' in the name of God. The older person which runs these terror camps uses all sort of mechanism to divert the mind of these people and they lay the strong foundation of hatred and vengeance into these young minds. It is easy for them to teach them that by doing what they are told to do they'll be treated as heroes and they are bringing a good name for their religion, culture and society.

Unemployment: The main reason why the youth involves in terror is because of unemployment and their poor survival across the childhood days. It is being revealed by many of the terrorists who were caught across the world that they were born and bought up in poor conditions and due to which they lack proper education and hence they were unemployed. The terror agents took advantage of these conditions and promise they to pay a hefty amount to them or their families in return. This allures them so much that they agrees to do any sort of work.

Communalism:
Communalism and extreme thoughts are another major factor which is acting as fuel in the fire. These young people are taught by the extremists religious preachers that Americans, British, Jews, Hindus are against Muslims and Islam. They were shown false videos and texts which bring up a strong feeling of hatred amongst them for the other group and religion. Moreover they are asked to kill them in order to keep their faith alive and all this fight is on the name of religion which they called 'Jehad'. . It is good for them to kill as to protect the rights of their own and they'll be called as the true 'Son of God'.

Geography:
Mostly the terrorists are from the countries which are poor and orthodox like Pakistan, Afghanistan, Libya etc. The geographical conditions are very familiar for organizing these terror camps and the favor of the government and intelligence agencies acts as icing on the cake. These countries has ice covered mountains, caves, lakes, sea and flat land where the training is being given in order to make them fight in every condition and these countries have a vast border with the neighboring counties like India ,China where they want to spread the terror. And who other then the poor youth available in abundance in these areas can go through it. Thus more and more young people are brought up into the ugly world of terror.

It is seen that the involvement to young men is growing more as they are more adaptable to any environment and it is easy to mislead them. India is very much influenced by terror in these days and the recent attack on Mumbai is a live example of the involvement of youth. All the ultras who were involved in the attack are of the age group 21-30.These people look like college going students and can easily fake their identities and bring the operation into success. They accept the alluring offers of their superiors and end up becoming a fidayeen for the large sum of money they promised to give them. 'Kasab' who is the only terrorist caught alive in this operation revealed some eye opening facts about the same .He said he was from a poor family and his family disrespect him when he was unemployed but when he returned home after his terrorist camp his family, society started respecting him as if he is doing some good for them. This shows the mindset of the society they live in. The training details he gave were also very tough and only young powerful men can go through it.

Many of the terrorists who were killed or caught in America, Britain, India, Australia, Israel are young men and nowadays more of the young professionals like engineers and doctors are helping them because they get carried away by the leaders of terror organization. They help them paste their message on websites, get the fake SIM cards, fund them, make a master plan of the attacks, steal vehicles, fly a plane and get entry into elite places like hotels, industries etc.. Thus helping them in spreading terror across the globe. It is a matter of serious concern for everybody in the world to eradicate the terror agents and stopping the youth to enter in this heinous business of death and destruction.

-Jagdeep Singh More, Mumbai