[Dark Skies]

It is similar to the "born again" experience in Christianity but with destructive results. One must ask what is the spirit with which these new converts to islam are filled.

It certainly isn't Holy.

[Vaquero]

the Cat Stevens syndrome.

[Vaquero]

what do you mean 'but'.

[Pearls Before Swine]

It is similar to the "born again" experience in Christianity but with destructive results. One must ask what is the spirit with which these new converts to islam are filled.

It is partly the message, and partly the slate on which it is written. That's what makes Islam such a dangerous prison religion. It promises people proven to be capable of nastiness a justification and group approval in exchange for some discipline. The "uber-gang."

[ScreamingFist]

Doo dah, doo dah.....plenty of the same "converts" are incarcerated......this is the "religion" of the wayless, the confused and the radicals.......Abby Hoffman would have been appalled...

[DustyMoment]

"The converts are seen as the most extreme, and they're seen as the most extreme even by other Muslims who may not come from the U.K. Which is really worrying," said Anthony Glees, director of the Brunel University Center for Intelligence and Security Studies in West London.

This is nothing different than what happens to Christian converts. They don't run out and start slaughtering others who aren't of their new faith, but they become the "enforcers" of their religion - correcting every fault of those raised in the faith.

I'm not equating Christian converts to Muslim extremists, I'm just making the point that there is a thread of similarity that runs through religious converts and they all have similar tendencies and the desire to prove that they are as religious, if not moreso, than those raised in the faith.

The bad thing about Muslim converts is that they are the most susceptible to be recruited by the terrorist wing to prove how "worthy" they are of their new religion.

[Americanexpat]

We have the same problem here, I wonder how many Muslim converts we have in the states?

[Proud_USA_Republican]

maybe they should do some research on what's being preached in these islamic madras schools and mosques.

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

Bump for later

[Catholic Canadian]

I think these young students converting to Islam are doing it simply for it's Lefty/radical political appeal.

[Truth29]

The time will come when we have to realize that Islam is incompatible with western civilization.

[Tamar1973]

"The converts are seen as the most extreme, and they're seen as the most extreme even by other Muslims who may not come from the U.K. Which is really worrying," said Anthony Glees, director of the Brunel University Center for Intelligence and Security Studies in West London.

Converts to any religion are usually more ardent,passionate and "extreme" than people born and raised in the religion. Only, you rarely hear of "extreme" Christians or Jews trying to blow themselves up and everyone else with them.

[Paul Ross]

One must ask what is the spirit with which these new converts to islam are filled. It certainly isn't Holy.

Bump. Agreed.

[garbanzo]

This certainly challenges the idea that the spreading of whiskey-sexy-democracy in the Middle East is the best hope of combatting radical Islamism since those things are all readily available in the UK, and most of Europe for that matter.