The case of the family who killed themselves in suicide bombings in Indonesia and the latest rounds of arrests in Singapore for terror-linked activities show that those involved need not necessarily be "down and out". They have done reasonably well in life, yet they chose pathways towards radicalisation and violence to destroy the society that they had benefited from.
Why do they then go down the route of violence?
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