An inconvenient truth?

Preventive measure: We need to understand and contextualise the sentiments of cross-sectional population of Malaysian youths toward violent extremism, as well as to analyse prevailing factors that might lead youth to committing violent extremist acts.

THE most convenient truth would be that it is religion that drives radicalisation, terrorism and violent extremism in Malaysia, as well as the rest of the world.

In the case of violent jihadism, that religion would be Islam, the faith that our majority Malay-Malaysians believe in.