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Paul Davis: Teens, terror, and social media Paul Davis October 23, 2025 October 22, 2025

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“Despite the recent assassinations, attempted assassinations and school shootings by mentally unbalanced people, American youth radicalization by overseas Islamic terrorist organizations remains a threat to the United States,” a retired FBI agent said to me recently. “The long arm of social media allows the terrorist groups to reach out across oceans and indoctrinate and communicate with mixed up, impressionable young Americans in a hate and violent philosophy.”

He noted a case in point: Muhyyee-Ud-din Abdul-Rahman, who was convicted last month of terrorism charges. According to the FBI, the young man communi

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