Ingushetia's leader calls for stronger information counteraction to spreading of terrorism ideology
MAGAS. Sept 9 (Interfax) - Around 90% of all supporters of terrorist organizations, including the so-called Islamic State, are recruited through social networks, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, leader of the Russian internal republic of Ingushetia, said at a meeting on the issues of information counteraction to the spread of terrorist ideology.
He said that young people, socially vulnerable persons, are being actively recruited; meanwhile, the ideologists are getting access to them not directly, but through social networks.
"If a young man goes to serve on a military contract, he is trained and is given a hint of which literature should be read. This was the Taliban movement before, then the Al Qaeda major terrorist organization was formed. Now the so-called Islamic State recruits terrorists through social networks. The ideology of terrorism should be confronted by the common front, actively using the broad capabilities of internet resources," the Ingush leader said.
Yevkurov finds it necessary to engage all lawful mechanisms and mass media capabilities to detect and uncover in public opinion the methods of disguising true goals and intentions of extremists, which are being implemented under seemingly attractive slogans of the struggle for freedom and the protection of religious values.
One of the effective steps to this effect will become the creation of an inter-agency committee which will be engaged in the information struggle against the spread of the ideology of terrorism and extremism, using the broad opportunities of internet resources, he said.
"Representatives of law enforcement agencies, bodies of executive authorities, clergymen, representatives of scientific intelligentsia and well-known public figures should join the inter-agency working group," Yevkurov said.
He noted that the work of the committee should result in a fully established global vision of a stable non-acceptance of the ideology of terrorism and extremism by society.
