Extremism is surging. To beat it, we need young hearts and minds | Scott Atran
(The Guardian France)

There is no clash of civilisations but a crisis of cultures - and the key to healing them is youthThe last of the shellshocked were being evacuated as I headed back toward Las Ramblas, Barcelona´s famed tourist-filled walkway where another disgruntled `soldier of Islamic State` had ploughed a van into the crowd, killing at least 13 and injuring more than 120 from 34 nations. Minutes before the attack I had dropped my wife´s niece near where the rampage began. It was deja vu and dread again, as with the Paris massacre at the Bataclan theatre in 2015, next door to where my daughter lived.At a seafront promenade south of Barcelona, a car of five knife-wielding kamikaze mowed down a woman before police killed them all. One teenage attacker had posted on the web two years before that `on my first day as king of the world` he would `kill the unbelievers and leave only Muslims who follow their religion`. Related: Charlottesville and Barcelona extremists united by a perverted sense of grievance | Jason Burke Young people are viewed mostly as a youth bulge and a problem to be pummelled rather than as a youth boom Related: Barcelona is Europe´s seventh vehicle attack in a year. What can be done? | Simon Jenkins Continue reading...