Posted on 12/17/2009 8:27:05 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
JUDITH MILLER
Apple-Pie Jihad
Homegrown terror takes root.
11 December 2009
They are named David. They are clean-shaven dental students and attendees of community colleges. They study hard, play sports, and open Facebook accounts. Their friends call them “normal Joes.” And they’re being arrested in ever-growing numbers, would-be terrorists plotting to kill their fellow Americans and conduct “holy war” at home and abroad. Wednesday’s arrest in Pakistan of five Muslim-American men attests to a growing phenomenon: the radicalization of young American Muslims on American soil.
When the New York Police Department first issued a 90-page report in August 2007 asserting that what it called “homegrown radicalization” was destined to become a major terrorist threat, many of the nation’s civil libertarians, self-proclaimed Muslim spokesmen, and even law enforcement officials were outraged. Civil libertarians warned that the NYPD’s conclusions would lead to religious and ethnic profiling in policing. Muslim groups demanded and got meetings with senior NYPD officials. FBI analysts and officials disputed the NYPD’s findings in interviews and congressional testimony.
(Excerpt) Read more at city-journal.org ...
Ping!
No kidding! What we do overseas won’t matter a bit as long as we are welcoming these people into our country and letting them take over (having more children than the rest of us)? Thanks to Clinton for signing some order that increased the number of immigrants from third world countries and to Bush for bringing in thousands of Iraqi refugees.
The threat to this country is not in Iraq or Afghanistan; it is right here at home. Why are our borders still unprotected and our immigration laws enouraging our enemies to walk in the front door?
Now America can truly be tried for exporting terrorism.
Islam needs to be barred from society as any other hate group.
But that will never happen to Obamas darling brothers.
Thank you for the ping Tiger Likes Rooster.
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http://www.sofir.org/sarchives/006308.php
13 December 2009
“THE DC FIVE”
SNIPPET: “Along the way one of them made a friend on YouTube who provided a degree of guidance as they cobbled together a scheme to travel to Pakistan for training and ultimately combat. The YouTube relationship moved to a shared Yahoo email account and messages in the Drafts folder, the latter being a tried and true method for evading detection that actually worked in this case. That one of the guys had family in Pakistan helped, if only by providing them with a bit of reassurance - they would not be entirely strangers in a strange land.”
Posted on 13 December 2009 @ 19:49
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