According to CBS News, the FBI and Homeland Security Department issued a joint alert warning that ISIS’s message is recruiting Western youth. The Homeland Security alert advised local law enforcement agencies that ISIS is having success with social media campaigns that entice American teenagers to join jihadists in the fight for the fight in Syria. This has to be the quietest public alert ever issued. I have informally asked a dozen acquaintances, who are reasonably well informed and they have never heard of this warning. The alert advised local and state law enforcement agencies that ISIS has been having some success with social media campaigns that invite youth to join jihadists for the fight in Syria.

 

University of Maryland psychology professor, Arie W. Kruglanski, advises parents to be constantly vigilant. ISIS propagandists entice young people with messages of power and determination. Kruglanski stated that teens are especially susceptible because of the lifestyle changes they’re going through, ” and that “They look for clarity and coherence, and this kind of ideology that is black and white, clear-cut, very structured is of great appeal to them.”

The Christian Science monitor reported  that ISIS usually recruits mainly males who are eager to express themselves through religion and that are yearning for a sense of identity. ISIS is also recruiting teenage girls, who want to join the fight, A recent example of this would be the three Colorado girls who were attempting to travel to Syria in October 2014 to join ISIS. However, they were caught by the FBI in Frankfurt, Germany. Many experts feel that the “entire ISIS recruiting process is quite intricate“, and that the recruitment can often take place at religious or educational settings.