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| No American Muslim Terrorists? |
| 2005-12-12 |
| By Daniel Pipes âItâs startling,â proclaims Spencer Ackerman in a New Republic cover story dated today, âhow few American Muslim extremists there actually are.â The article, âReligious Protection: Why American Muslims havenât turned to terrorism,â contrasts American Muslims with their European counterparts, whom he finds have turned to terrorism. American Muslims are not terrorists? What is Ackerman thinking? In an article and blog just this past week, I reported on fifteen American Muslim converts who have either engaged in terrorism or been convicted of trying to do so. In a follow-up piece, I listed another fifteen American converts to Islam suspected, arrested, or indicted of terrorism. Thatâs thirty converts. I have not counted the immigrant Muslims and their offspring implicated in terrorism, but here is some information that hints to their numbers: Rest at link. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #6 Active vs Passive - a canard. They are one and the same when the match is struck. mhw is right - they are in it all the way, whether it manifests itself as active (open jihadi) or passive (symp and support). I have no use for Islam in any form. It serves no society but its own - which is clearly one of attack, subvert, dominate -- by any means available. If they are quiescent in the US, it's because they recognize that we are an armed and dangerous populace to fuck with. Nothing more. They've chosen to take the subversion path, in the main, here, that's all. A disease-bearing pestilence. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-12-12 23:02 |
| #5 I blame THIS ADMINISTRATION!!! J. Kerry P.S. I served in Vietnam. |
| Posted by: John Kerry 2005-12-12 21:38 |
| #4 Ackerman also fails to count American muslims who willingly and vociferously defend terrorism, who contribute to charities in the expectation that some of the funds will go to terrorism, etc. Those are hard to count but they easily run to the tens of thousands and probably hundreds of thousands. |
| Posted by: mhw 2005-12-12 16:59 |
| #3 The 200 terrorists in the US, including at least 30 converts, seems pretty substantial. In addition, AFAICR there were over 1000 muslims deported due to associations with terrorists or groups, but not enough evidence for criminal prosecution. |
| Posted by: ed 2005-12-12 14:56 |
| #2 Itâs because we live in such a repressive regime. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2005-12-12 14:43 |
| #1 Straw man alert - Ackerman didn't say "American Muslims are not terrorists." He said he was surprised how few there were in comparison to the number in Europe. That's a valid observation, the rate of recruiting success does seem quite different. I'm not a big TNR reader, I don't know if Ackerman had anything interesting or valid to say about it. |
| Posted by: Uloluth Angomong1920 2005-12-12 14:41 |