Online radicalisation. Young ones who feel alone are easy prey

The article “Virtual world can be a gateway to radicalisation for lonely youth: Faishal Ibrahim” (Nov 29) is yet another reminder: a teenager radicalised online, a chatbot used to create extremist pledges, gaming platforms turned into recruitment grounds. And at the centre of it all, a young person who felt alone.

- Irwan Jamil

Senior Minister of State Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim is right: the virtual world is now the front line. But radicalisation is being treated as a digital problem when it is fundamentally a human one. Extremists are not hunting for believers. They are hunting for the lonely.