The fire beyond

In november 2004 is the town of Uden in England a few days international news after three underage boys a Molotov cocktail through a window of the Islamic school Bedir cast, then the school is totally destroyed. This action is seen that anything is brewing among the youth in rural areas in the southeast of the country.

In 2008 Political scientist Loek Borrèl is also requested from his work as former director of the youth center De Pul in the same municipality to supervise these three youths during a 250 hour internship project. During this process has Borrèl many probing interviews about the reasons, the social and political views of these young people and their parents. It becomes clear to him that these young people take power away from the multicultural society. They point friendships with young people from other ethnic groups?, negative feelings towards Islam, are proud Netherlands and write 'the decline of our society’ to 'strangers'. Yet his conclusion that the three perpetrators had no racist motives, However, the act in themselves indeed. In line with this project starts Borrèl -in order of the Ministries of the Interior and Kingdom Relations-Justice- with an examination of the (rechts)radicalized and fundamentalist opinion formation among young people in North Brabant: "How do they get their ideas, how they support this and what are the main backgrounds of these opinions.’ Borrèl interviewed 52 young people he recruited through his network that he had acquired during the period he guided the arsonists of the Bedir school. Seven of them are now found in this book, preceded by an environment- and location plan, to clarify for readers who are not from this region.