Incels and Terrorism: Sexual Deprivation As Security Threat

Incels and Terrorism: Sexual Deprivation As Security Threat – Analysis

Raffaello Pantucci and Kyler Ong

Eurasia Review

08 October 2020

This article first appeared as an RSIS Commentary, view the original commentary in the source above.

Canada’s decision to prosecute a February attack by a machete-wielding Involuntary Celibate (Incel) as a terrorist act has fed an ongoing debate about whether Incels are terrorists, and if the community demands a dedicated national security effort, wrote Senior Fellow Raffaello Pantucci, and Associate Research Fellow Kyler Ong in an analysis. Both are from the International Centre for Political Violence, Terrorism at RSIS.

…Raffaello Pantucci is a Senior Fellow and Kyler Ong an Associate Research Fellow at the International Centre for Political Violence, Terrorism Research (ICPVTR) of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.

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