religion of their respective countries. And yet, is important to notice how in most of the family stories collected in the report, the father figure was either absent or entirely negative and the boys involved often had a troubled adolescence, with cases of drug abuses, petty crimes and mental illness, and that most of them found difficult to integrate in society and have friends, . The radicalization process consists of five stages. It does not matter if we are speaking of religious or political extremists;