MI5 blows apart terror stereotypes

A classified MI5 document seen by the Guardian contradicts the commonly held view that potential terrorists can be easily identified. The internal research says that there is no single path to radicalisation and that extremists are as likely to be family men as loners. The document, based on the profiles of "several hundred individuals known to be involved in, or closely associated with, violent extremist activity" concludes that the British terrorist is "demographically unremarkable", reflecting simply the community in which they live and that the influence of radical Muslim clerics on inspiring acts of terror is much overrated.