Recruitment into destructive pseudo-religious organizations via the Internet

The Internet plays an important role in the lives of ordinary citizens of Kazakhstan, and of the whole world. And if we talk about religious sects, the focus of recruitment has long been shifted to the virtual space. At the present stage, various pseudo-religious organizations are actively using the resources of the Internet space to involve them in their organization, send their adherents to the battle points of the Middle East, collect financial "donations", and carry out terrorist acts.

For example, the banned terrorist organization Al-Qaeda has its own website, the World Islamic Center, which aims to promote the ideas of radical Wahhabism and Sallafism. More and more Internet recruiters are showing the most sophisticated ways to attract new adherents to their organizations. Even such ordinary content, social networks as VKontakte, Facebook, Mail.Ru, Odnoklassniki are used to engage their target audience - these are young people from 15 to 30 years old, sometimes even older. Faced with difficulties, experiencing psychological problems, any teenager can fall under the influence of pseudo-religious preachers. When communicating in social networks with “such nice people”, almost no one notices how the recruiter is introduced into your social circle, the periodic injection of misinformation in order to change your consciousness, and in the future, and behavior.

If you are a parent and want to keep your children safe on the Internet, follow these simple rules:

• communicate with your child (no matter how trite it may sound) both in reality and in social networks.
• Use the same social media as your child.
• Pay attention to where and what the child is doing on the Internet (browse the story, not all children know that it can be cleaned up).
• Stay up to date with new products in the digital world.
• Use parental control technologies.
• Create separate PC accounts for each family member, including children.
• Protect all devices, be it PC, smartphone or tablet.
• Teach your child to critically evaluate information and people with whom he communicates.
• Teach your child about online safety (at least close the profile).

   These recommendations are quite effective. They just need to be observed.