hyderabad the islamic state is and its brand of fanaticism has struck yet again and this time it has claimed the young but terribly misguided life of an adilabadbased engineer mohammed atif wasim incidentally wasim had moved to hyderabad before being radicalized in the uk where he went to pursue a masters degree in engineering there seems to be an emerging pattern in those volunteering to fight alongside the is accepting its brand of jihad with which a vast majority of muslims is at loggerheads contrary to the popular notion that inequality iniquity poverty and a lack of education breed terrorism many of the is recruits have been educated individuals wasim is a case in point the is propaganda is a clear centripetal force pulling young men and women into its vortex of violence but while there are conduits rabid preachers who covertly convert alarmingly most of the radicalization and recruitment is taking place in vast tracts of cyberspaceread also engg graduate from hyd who joined isis dies in syria a recent study by the usa based consortium study of terrorism and responses to terrorism start entitled the islamic state of iraq and the levant branding leadership culture and lethal attraction noted that the is is unlike alqaida and its affiliates the study has also sought to understand the is as any organisation in an industry in this case the jihad industry interestingly it states that the is has adopted several best practices of other industries the study compares the is to the nigeria based terror outfit boko haram bh it notes that unlike the bh which destroys telecommunications and power installations to stun and paralyse security forces the is on the other hand makes strong efforts to control critical infrastructure the study goes on to reason that this makes the organisation a service provider and has helped in garnering local civilian support and the support of the local eliteread also isis accepts boko haram pledge of allegiance the is is in sync with the age of first person shooter games and has used several such games to boost its recruitment drive by targeting techsavvy groups the study observes in what reflects its high level of sophistication the is has made modifications to popular video games and used them for its own nefarious purposes and allows players to fight as is combatants using the same principle the is launched a video game campaign last year and saw to it that information about the organisation reached a large number of peopleread also four hyderabad students who planned to join isis in iraq picked up by police while the police has on its scanner frequent troublemakers those engaged in spewing vitriol experts on terrorism from the west have now suggested security agencies to keep on eye on those who bear streaks of unstable behaviour their understanding is that those displaying this kind of strong emotions but in short bursts are more likely to be sucked into the terrorism tangle in