Abstract: The study seeks to observe and analyze the role of the university professors in forming the youth awareness of the electronic extremism and terrorism dangers ; their real and virtual tools they depend, their mechanism of persuasion they rely on to form the youth`s cognitive awareness of these dangers. The study is classified in descriptive studies use survey and comparative approach; depend on the questionnaire tool applied on 100 sample of university professors from different faculties. The study concluded a set of results; the most important ones: the recruitment of the university professors to the network sites as an awareness tool of the extremism and terrorism dangers is still limited and the largest percentage of them realize the great role of the social media in spreading extremism and terrorism; the international groups such as “ISIS “and “Al Quaada “are the most users and recruiters of these sites. One of the most dominant dangers is recruiting the less conscious students in the Lone Wolves Operations due to the weak religious culture and uneducated youth`s mind on criticizing and analyzing . The professors see reliance on rational dialogue to convince students of the electronic terrorism dangers; the great necessity of adding the method of “the critical thinking “to the package of courses related to the university requirements. The results showed the existence of statistically significant differences between the university professors degree of interest towards discuss the radical thoughts among students via social media according to the scientific specialization; the more the professors belonged to the disciplines of social, human-science and languages, the more it supports their orientation towards discussion. Finally, the study proved the statistically significant relationship existence between the rates of professors use social media networks and the type of strategies used to convince students of the electronic terrorism dangers. Keywords: University Professors, Role, the University Youth, Extremism dangers, terrorism, Virtual network
Abstract: The study seeks to observe and analyze the role of the university professors in forming the youth awareness of the electronic extremism and terrorism dangers ; their real and virtual tools they depend, their mechanism of persuasion they rely on to form the youth`s cognitive awareness of these dangers. The study is classified in descriptive studies use survey and comparative approach; depend on the questionnaire tool applied on 100 sample of university professors from different faculties. The study concluded a set of results; the most important ones: the recruitment of the university professors to the network sites as an awareness tool of the extremism and terrorism dangers is still limited and the largest percentage of them realize the great role of the social media in spreading extremism and terrorism; the international groups such as “ISIS “and “Al Quaada “are the most users and recruiters of these sites. One of the most dominant dangers is recruiting the less conscious students in the Lone Wolves Operations due to the weak religious culture and uneducated youth`s mind on criticizing and analyzing . The professors see reliance on rational dialogue to convince students of the electronic terrorism dangers; the great necessity of adding the method of “the critical thinking “to the package of courses related to the university requirements. The results showed the existence of statistically significant differences between the university professors degree of interest towards discuss the radical thoughts among students via social media according to the scientific specialization; the more the professors belonged to the disciplines of social, human-science and languages, the more it supports their orientation towards discussion. Finally, the study proved the statistically significant relationship existence between the rates of professors use social media networks and the type of strategies used to convince students of the electronic terrorism dangers. Keywords: University Professors, Role, the University Youth, Extremism dangers, terrorism, Virtual network