Incels and Terrorism: Sexual Deprivation As Security Threat SYNOPSIS

One of the biggest hurdles therefore in including Incels within the roster of terrorist organisations is the absence of a clear political goal, beyond a revenge for their personal rejection by the opposite sex. [...] Taken alongside the many other extreme right narratives that have emerged in the past few years – from the militant North American Boogaloo Bois to the increasingly global QAnon movement (which the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) regards as a potential terror threat) – it is possible that Incels should potentially be defined as simply another articulation of the modern extreme right, wher. [...] Relevance for Asia: Currycels or Ricecels? The correlation between Incel and the extreme right-wing throws a spanner in the works when trying to establish their relevance in Asia. [...] Certainly the rise of the extreme right appears to be something that the security community in the west had overlooked. [...] Regardless, any decision to draw Incels into the realm of national security effort must consider the costs (such as the risk of pushing the community underground) and benefits (heightened efforts to thwart the threat) of doing so.