The Qur’an is not a significant motivating factor for young men joining Daesh, a researcher has found. The desire for “badass-do-goodery” is the main motivating factor, said Omar Shaukat, a former senior research fellow with the Afro-Middle East Center in Johannesburg who interviewed young men who were considering joining Daesh at the height of its “caliphate” in 2014-15. Knowing that most young men do not become extremists because of religious ...