He enrolled in community college, got a job, then was arrested in November that year on two terrorism charges for trying to join Islamic State. Bouzar said that can mean countering a message of anti-materialism by showing them the videos of fighters lounging in fancy villas or sporting watches with an Islamic State logo. Across Europe, an estimated 5,000 people have joined extremist fighters in Syria, and about a third of them have returned. In the case of the Minnesota program, participants are already in the federal justice system. Dounia Bouzar, who runs France's jihadi rehab program, works with more than 1,000 young people flagged as potential extremists.

Source: ABC News May 22, 2016 04:48 UTC