Aarhus, a port city of just over 300,000 on the east coast of Denmark, has seen about 30 residents returning from Iraq and Syria, suspected to have fought with radical groups. But rather than charging them and sending them to jail, authorities are trying to reintegrate them into the community. The program, in place since January, offers support in the form of education and counselling. But, it’s all voluntary. “We don’t spend a lot of energy fighting ideology,” Steffen Nielsen, a crime prevention adviser in Aarhus, told Al Jazeera last month. “We don’t try to take away your jihadist...
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