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Central Ohio government officials were running for cover following my article last week, “Hometown Jihad: The Somali Terror Apologist Next Door”, which revealed that Abukar Arman, a vocal supporter of the Somali terrorist group and al-Qaeda-linked Islamic Courts Union (ICU), as well as several other terrorist individuals and organizations, was currently serving on the blue-ribbon board that oversees Central Ohio Homeland Security. Originally appointed to the Franklin County Criminal Justice Planning Board, which oversees and directs the Office of Homeland Security and Justice Programs in March 2005, he has since been reappointed. Additionally, Arman also serves on the Ohio State...

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Mary Habeck, Associate Professor of Strategic Studies at Johns Hopkins' School of Advanced International Studies. She is the author of the new book Knowing the Enemy:  Jihadist Ideology and the War on Terror.   FP: Mary Habeck, welcome to Frontpage Interview. Habeck: Thanks. It's great to be here. FP: What inspired you to write this book? Habeck: I became interested in Islam--especially medieval Islamic law, theology and history--during the 1990s.  When 9/11 happened, I began to read about modern Islam, Islamism and jihadism, and could see that the extremists had a certain very narrow place in Islamic history and theology.  So I waited for...