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  • verb transitive To divest of radicalism; to normalize politically.

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Examples

  • Currently, several of the 16 states have programmes to "deradicalize" those who approve of violence in the name of religion.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2009

  • Currently, several of the 16 states have programmes to "deradicalize" those who approve of violence in the name of religion.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2009

  • People were systematically radicalized in General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq's regime, and a greater effort is required to deradicalize the militant psyche and to neutralize the breeding grounds.

    Fahad Faruqui: Mind Over Jihad Fahad Faruqui 2012

  • Hopefully, this measure will prevent the youth from joining radical groups and deradicalize militants -- if the message seeps in!

    Fahad Faruqui: Mind Over Jihad Fahad Faruqui 2012

  • People were systematically radicalized in General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq's regime, and a greater effort is required to deradicalize the militant psyche and to neutralize the breeding grounds.

    Fahad Faruqui: Mind Over Jihad Fahad Faruqui 2012

  • The U.S. has taken an initiative to spread the counter-extremist message across Pakistan to prevent the breeding of extremism and to deradicalize militants who were completely taken by the jihadist ideology, which is a tough battle because Pakistan is, perhaps, the only country where the state, with funding from U.S. and Saudi Arabia, financed and trained jihadis to fight Soviet Russia and did nothing to deporgram the mujahideen after the war was over.

    Fahad Faruqui: Mind Over Jihad Fahad Faruqui 2012

  • Hopefully, this measure will prevent the youth from joining radical groups and deradicalize militants -- if the message seeps in!

    Fahad Faruqui: Mind Over Jihad Fahad Faruqui 2012

  • "Pakistan has done absolutely nothing to deradicalize the militants," said Tariq Pervez, ex-chairman National Counter-Terrorism Authority NACTA.

    Fahad Faruqui: Mind Over Jihad Fahad Faruqui 2012

  • Mr. Benotman is senior analyst at the Quilliam Foundation, a counterextremism think tank in London, and played a leading role in the Libyan government's program to deradicalize Islamist militants in recent years.

    Uprisings Put al Qaeda on Sidelines Keith Johnson 2011

  • The U.S. has taken an initiative to spread the counter-extremist message across Pakistan to prevent the breeding of extremism and to deradicalize militants who were completely taken by the jihadist ideology, which is a tough battle because Pakistan is, perhaps, the only country where the state, with funding from U.S. and Saudi Arabia, financed and trained jihadis to fight Soviet Russia and did nothing to deporgram the mujahideen after the war was over.

    Fahad Faruqui: Mind Over Jihad Fahad Faruqui 2012

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