Insight - 'Rambo' appeal, not the mosque, lures Brussels youths to IS

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Khalid Ben Larbi lived a hedonistic lifestyle similar to other European youths and rarely went to the mosque in Molenbeek, the mainly Muslim Moroccan immigrant area where he and three of the suspected Paris attackers grew up in Brussels.

It was the same inner-city disenchantment that leads other youths to drugs and crime, not the preachings of a radical imam, that neighbours, local social workers and imams say changed Ben Larbi from raucous adolescent to Islamic State foot soldier, drawn by the promise of adventure and glory.