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The Link Between Masculinity and Violent Extremism
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10 September 2018

Singapore faces a threat of self-radicalisation, particularly of young men, through extremist ideologies on social media, writes S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies senior analyst Sara Mahmood.

And the male-dominated nature of violent extremism is linked to extremist groups’ propaganda that urges men to fight in order to prove that they are “real men” — a version of manhood also referred to as toxic masculinity, she adds.

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