New York police say
the deadly truck attack was right out of
the ISIS playbook.
The suspect in the deadly rampage
in New York told authorities he was
inspired by ISIS videos.
On Saipov's cell phone, the FBI says,
investigators found about 90 ISIS
propaganda videos
and nearly 4,000 ISIS-related images.
Terrorist groups like ISIS have
long used the internet for recruiting.
Videos like these all over the internet.
This is the best place to be honestly.
With social media,
people can reach halfway around the world
to do the kind of grooming
that was very familiar from the experience
of so-called cults in the 60s and the 70s.
Can the lessons we learned from
doomsday cults decades ago
be used to prevent ISIS recruitment today?
There is no room for accommodating
an apocalyptic cult like ISIL.
There is people who are brainwashing
these young kids.
This radicalization, it's real.
Minneapolis, Minnesota has a population of
15,000 Somali-Americans
including community leader Deqa Hussen,
the mother of eight children,
among them her son Abdirizak.
My son, when I bring him in this country,
he was only ten months.
And he grow up here.
But over time, her son and
other young men in the community
felt increasingly alienated,
facing high unemployment
and struggling to fit in.
In 2013, two of his friends were involved
in a lunchroom brawl at school
which they saw as a sign of hostility
towards Somali immigrants.
We're the minority here.
We are the ones who are about ten,
fifteen students.
Why are we being attacked?
Young people, particularly young men,
if they're living in a context
where they feel alienated,
they feel
like they're not getting a fair deal,
they can then be open to indoctrination.
Then they're susceptible
to thinking of these larger
messages which come flooding at them
through the internet.
We are men, honored with Islam,
who climbed its peaks to perform jihad.
Abdirizak and his friends and others
formed a secret group that watched
hundreds of hours of ISIS recruitment
videos and stoked each other's radicalism.
Oh America, do you think you can defeat us
by bombarding our homes with your drones
and F-16s?
You are sadly mistaken.
The recruitment handbook of ISIS
I would say is on a Ph.D. pyschology level
The ideology can talk almost exclusively
about justice and injustice,
about you being the fighter for good,
the warrior that defends the poor
and helpless against the evil.
The fighting has just begun.
So that ideology, either through the form
of a recruiter, or through a video,
it can tell you
"I have identified
what is wrong in the world
and what is wrong in your life,
and these two things are connected."
Over two years, the young men transformed
from typical American teens
to aspiring jihadist fighters.
When nine of them took steps to travel
to Syria to join ISIS,
they were arrested by the FBI.
We have a terror recruiting problem
in Minnesota.
And this case demonstrates
how difficult it is
to put an end to recruiting here.
Abdirizak was named
as one of the ringleaders.
My son
was brainwashed because he was watching
this propaganda video.
He thought that if he go to Syria,
he's going to go to heaven,
and all my family
is going to go to heaven.
People don't join cults,
or organizations such as Peoples Temple.
They're recruited, just like we were.
Forty years ago,
it wasn't slick internet videos
that attracted Leslie Wagner-Wilson and
her family into an extremist cult called
the Peoples Temple.
It was the personal charisma
of its leader, Jim Jones,
and the hope that he would help her sister
get off drugs.
When you're in a vulnerable situation,
by gaining your trust, slowly,
you become indoctrinated into
the ideology of the organization.
We have to have to eliminate
poverty, racism, injustice and war.
Her family came to believe
in the socialist utopia promised by Jones,
who claimed to be the reincarnation of
Vladimir Lenin and God.
In the meantime I shall be God
and beside me there shall be no other.
The Peoples Temple
amassed close to 5,000 followers
but, by 1977,
was plagued by defections
and unwanted media attention.
It is extremely difficult
watching their daughter being beat
75 times as I did.
To escape legal and media scrutiny,
Jim Jones persuaded close to a thousand
disciples to follow him to South America,
to a jungle commune in Guyana they called
Jonestown.
Everybody's happy down here. You can see
that that's an obvious fact.
When I first arrived at Jonestown, I felt
optimistic
and I was hoping
that I was going to be able to live
a fulfilled life
in a socialist environment.
But after six months,
Jim's paranoia increased.
And there were fake
shootings in the jungle
by security guards to make us
think that we were under attack.
There was no way to get out, no escape.
I've got a hell of a lot of
weapons to fight!
I got my cause,
I got purposes, I got guns,
I got dynamite,
I got a hell of a lot to fight!
I'll fight! I'll fight!
It was a tactic of Jim Jones
to exaggerate and heighten
the sense of being persecuted.
And when a team of U.S. officials arrived
to investigate the allegations of abuse,
I just beg you. Please leave us.
Jones ordered an attack.
A number of people presumably
Temple members began shooting.
California Congressman Leo Ryan and
three American journalists have
been killed in Guyana, South America.
In the aftermath,
Jones persuaded his disciples to drink a
fruit punch laced with cyanide
which he called a "medication."
Please get us the medication.
It's simple, it's simple.
There's no convulsions with it.
Resisters were compelled at gunpoint
to comply.
We didn't commit suicide.
We committed an act of
revolutionary suicide protesting
the conditions of an inhumane world.
I think there's a lot to learn
from our long experience with groups like
Jim Jones and currently with ISIS.
Strozier says, like Jim Jones,
the leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,
claims divine heritage and tells followers
they need to be willing
to sacrifice themselves
in a holy war to destroy the West.
One of the things that is
almost always true with extremist groups
that turn to violence is that they
have this apocalyptic idea, hope.
That is only through violence can there be
ultimate redemption.
That's why it's important for them
that they call it martyrdom.
I pled guilty because
I knew I was guilty. And I knew
what I did was wrong.
Abdirizak and the other Somali-American
men are now serving prison time.
His mother, Deqa Hussen,
is working to prevent what happened to her
son from happening to others,
as criminal justice officials
look to the future.
The young people
who were inspired by the ISIS videos
18, 19 years old.
I mean, can't we save these people?
Can't we turn them into
good family members who are
productive people in the community?
As an experiment,
the Minnesota federal court
is requiring some of the men
to undergo a deradicalization program
designed by extremism expert
Daniel Koehler
before they can return home.
Deradicalization, in essence, is
the reverse of the radicalization process.
It means to repluralize the world view,
make it broader again,
make them understand
that there are no easy answers
for single problems.
You have to tap into their
special interests.
Do they want an education?
Is there something else that they can do
for innocent Muslim communities
and not terrorists?
What do they care about?
Do they care about
their family in general?
I stepped out of line in Jonestown
by realizing that I
wanted to leave Jonestown
and take my son with me.
It was fear that her young son was at risk
that led to Leslie Wagner-Wilson's
break with the Peoples Temple.
It happened after she confessed
her growing doubts in a letter to a friend
which was intercepted by Jim Jones.
And now I'm exposed.
And he reads this letter
and I get called in front of the pulpit
surrounded by the community.
My mother comes up,
my brother comes up, and they
yell and scream at me how I should be
thankful to Jim
because that's what you're supposed to do,
and that I'm, you know, a traitor
and I should be punished
and they are ashamed of me.
This was a nail in my coffin.
Early one morning,
she snuck out of the Jonestown camp
with her son,
unaware that eleven members of her family,
and some nine hundred others,
would die later that day.
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