Posted on 04/19/2013 6:28:56 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah
The Tarnaev brothers were cruelly successful, but they are far from the only terrorists over the past decade with big ideas about carnage in America. There is a temptation with each act of terror to see it as an isolated act, connected to the mental state of the actor, but not to larger forces. The FBI used to have theories about "Sudden Jihad Syndrome" and "Lone Wolves" that were not only wrong, but also pulled law enforcement off the track.
"Sudden Jihad Syndrome" was invented by the FBI to explain why people who lived quietly in the United States for some period of time "suddenly" went berserk and killed others. Why Naveed Haq shot six people at the Seattle Jewish Federation, killing one; why Hesham Hadayet, an Egyptian with a history of radical statements, shot up the El Al ticket counter in LA; why Derek Shareef, a convert to Islam, planned to firebomb a mall in Rockford, IL; and why Bosnian Sulejman Talovic, killed five people in a shopping center in Salt Lake City. It was supposed to explain why Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad shot up an Army recruiting center in Little Rock, and Kosovar Arid Uka killed two soldiers on a U.S. Army bus in Germany. The FBI won't call it "jihad," but a "bolt from the blue" was also supposed to explain why Maj. Nidal Hassan killed 13 people at Ft. Hood; it doesn't explain why he yelled "Allahu Akbar" as he did it.
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We're going to learn more about them both, but what we know about the process of radicalization and the connection between unhappy people, true believers, and criminal terrorist enablers is the beginning of wisdom -- if we choose to see it.
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I’m just so glad all these people who knew the Boston terrorists talk about how nice they were; that means the only thing wrong with them is that they are Muslim.
I understand.
I’m sick of this world.
I’m just so glad all these people who knew the Boston terrorists talk about how nice they were
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I ran across someone, today, who was spouting that sh!t. They said that his friends in school thought he was a “great guy”.
I said, “Yeah. Placed a bomb in a backpack two feet away from an 8 year old boy and walked away with a smug smile on his face of utter satisfaction. Yeah, GREAT GUY.”
There was silence and a look of embarrassment.
The fact that their friends thought they were nice guys just goes to show you that you have to be suspicious of Muslims even thought they seem nice. It would be easy if all of their acquaintances thought they were dangerous.
Islam is a criminal enterprise and should be dealt with as such.
That’s the whole point; even the nicest guy in the end will do something like that if he’s Muslim. As a Christian I believe my God would disapprove (and punish me for that).
I hear you. Though as Dennis Prager says, "Happiness is a moral imperative. Happy people do more good in the world."
I believe that.
Bostonians apprehending terrorist on their own terms equates the animated feats of superman, the iron man.Strong cored teamwork wrought the circumstances into justice.
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