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Neil Prakash: The confused Buddhist who became a top IS jihadist
Sometime in the middle of 2012, a friend of Neil Prakash asked the young Australian if he was religious. "I'm a Buddhist," said Prakash, "but I believe there is a god, a deity". "You are not a Buddhist then," replied the friend, "you are confused". The simple exchange marked the beginning of a journey, literal and spiritual, that took Prakash from his home town of Melbourne to the heartland of the so-called Islamic State.
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