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Balkan Muslims Stage Counteroffensive Against Radicals (Balkan Insight)

Balkan youth have been an easy target for extremists seeking to radicalise them and convince them to fight abroad, but now parents, activists and official Islamic organisations are striking back.

Fatjona Mejdini, Maja Zivanovic, Denis Dzidic BIRN Tirana, Belgrade, Sarajevo

“I knew little about faith,” a 31-year-old Muslim from Sarajevo told BIRN, remembering his introduction to radical Islam.

“In high school, we did everything but study - concerts, pot and alcohol,” he recalled.