As John Walker Lindh walks out of prison, we have to figure out what awaits him | By Moustafa Ayad and Amarnath Amarasingam for CNNOpinion
Moustafa Ayad is the Deputy Director for Communications, Education, Networks and Technology at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. He tweets at @MoustafaAyad. Amarnath Amarasingam is a senior research fellow at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, and has co-directed a study of western foreign fighters at the University of Waterloo for six years. He tweets at @AmarAmarasingam. The views expressed in this commentary are their own. View more opinion on CNN.
The message arrived as we were passing through airport security. A US returnee from ISIS-held territory needed help. Reintegrating back into his American community was not going well. His past was doggedly blocking his prospects for the future. And the same drivers that often push people into extremist groups -- isolation, trauma and societal marginalization -- were weighing on him once again.
Amarnath Amarasingam Moustafa AyadWe have interviewed dozens of returning foreign fighters and domestic terror suspects for our work and understand their struggle to reintegrate into a society that finds them abhorrent. We also know that rehabilitation and reintegration programs for returning foreign fighters and terror-offenders do not exist beyond experimental pilot initiatives, which are few and far between.
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