Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: For years, Denmark has been testing programs to prevent young men and women from joining extremist groups. The city of Copenhagen set up a hotline in 2009 for people to call if they suspect someone they know is starting to embrace radical Islam. The city also has a special mentoring program to try to prevent people from going to fight for ISIS. Now intelligence officials say the number of Danes leaving for Syria is in decline. NPR's counterterrorism correspondent Dina Temple-Raston went to Denmark to understand how its version of de-radicalization works. DINA TEMPLE-RASTON, BYLINE: To hear a man we'll call Mohammed tell it, convincing young people not to embrace radical Islam requires a two-pronged approach. MOHAMMED: One is the physical needs of the individual, like job, education, like finding a new place to live. TEMPLE-RASTON: And that should sound familiar because those are the kinds of things social workers typically
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