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This may be a bit more pervasive than one might imagine. The original article had a line graph illustrating claims over the past 6 months. It was was climbing at nearly the vertical. Teevee in Altanta is filled with lawyer adverts offering to champion client disability claims. The only adds that come close to their frequency are the ED and the Scooter Chair adds.
You've heard the narrative from the Beltway punditry: Our Muslims are better assimilated than Muslims in Europe. Our Muslims are more Westernized, less radicalized.
Well, it's a false narrative.
We are seeing the horns of a Muslim insurgency in this country. We are being Europeanized. And we need a counterinsurgency plan not just in Afghanistan but right here at home.
While our leaders are too politically correct to even think about such a thing, they are starting to at least recognize the problem.
Even President Obama, who still won't utter the M word, notes the rise in "extremists within our borders." So does his Homeland Security chief, who just months earlier fixated on white militia groups as the main domestic terror threat.
"We are seeing young Americans who are inspired by al-Qaida and radical ideology," echoed DHS secretary Janet Napolitano, while still failing to name the source of that ideology. "Home-based terrorism is here."
And for the first time, a senior Justice Department official has gone on record saying the U.S. is turning into Europe, with Muslim citizens becoming more and more hostile toward the government, and plotting and carrying out more acts of homegrown terrorism.
"If there was ever a subconscious belief in the counterterrorism community that our society is different from Europe and therefore we don't have to worry about problems like they've had, the activities in Minneapolis demonstrate we can't think that way," said Patrick Rowan, who led Justice's national-security division when the government first started investigating the case of the 20 young Somali-American men who quit college and gave up promising careers in Minneapolis to join al-Qaida's jihad in Somalia.
The FBI fears the recruits -- who have U.S. passports -- may use their terror training to come back and attack their own country. One of them already carried out a suicide bombing, becoming the first American to do so.
"We should all be on guard," said Ralph Boelter who heads the FBI's Minneapolis field office.
As we dig in deeper in Afghanistan, hostility among our own Muslim population will only grow deeper. And as we import more refugees from Muslim countries, demands for Shariah (think: Taliban) law will only grow shriller.
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* In the past 12 months alone, there have been more than 75 arrests in the U.S. and abroad of homegrown terrorists including the Fort Hood shooter all of them Muslim, almost all U.S. citizens.
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Even President Obama, who still won't utter the M word "We are seeing young Americans who are inspired by al-Qaida and radical ideology," echoed DHS secretary Janet Napolitano, while still failing to name the source of that ideology.
How do you insert a photo of politically correct ostriches?
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Prob safe to add CLIMATE CHANGE to the gross equation.
To wit, WMF > CLIMATE CHANGE:NEW ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS TO THE MILITARY SECURITY OF THE WORLD. METEOROLOGICAL WEAPONS [e.g. HAARP] SHOULD BE ABANDONED. FUTURE WARS WILL WARS FOR SURVIVAL, NOT ABOUT RELIGION, IDEOLOGY, OR NATIONAL HONOR.
The beauty of Guantanamo Bay detention camp is twofold. First, it is isolated. A successful al-Qaida assault or escape would be nearly inconceivable. Second, it is a military base on which military laws apply. By transferring terror detainees from Guantanamo to Thomson, Ill., President Obama plans to exchange those securities for the vague hope that simply relocating detainees will remove just one of the numerous incentives fanatical jihadi warriors have invented to justify attacking us.
According to the White House, Guantanamo Bay is a "recruiting tool" for al-Qaida. But if that is true, it's not the prison that's the tool. It's the indefinite detention. Obama plans to close the prison, but continue the indefinite detention.
President Bush made numerous mistakes in prosecuting the War on Terror. But his initial decision to protect the homeland by projecting the war outward was sound. He brought the war to the terrorists to destroy their ability to bring it to us. President Obama is pulling the war inward. Trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a civilian court in Manhattan and bringing terror detainees to a civilian prison 150 miles from Chicago will demilitarize a significant portion of this war. Though the detainees in Illinois will remain in military custody, they will be on civilian soil in the very heartland of this nation.
Al-Qaida and its sympathizers thus will have their attention redirected away from our offshore military institutions and toward civilian ones inside our borders. Not only does this needlessly invent myriad legal problems, it needlessly endangers the American people by literally bringing the war home. This is a colossal mistake. Congress must not allow it to happen.
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CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > PAKISTANI ISLAMIC SCHOOLS/MADRASSAS BREED FOREIGN MILITANCY.
Amer Tweens, Teens + Young Adults learning mostly hardline or ultraconservative Islamic Principles-Values to bring home to US, International countries.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The beauty of Guantanamo Bay detention camp is twofold. First, it is isolated. A successful al-Qaida assault or escape would be nearly inconceivable. Second, it is a military base on which military laws apply. By transferring terror detainees from Guantanamo to Thomson, Ill., President Obama plans to exchange those securities for the vague hope that simply relocating detainees will remove just one of the numerous incentives fanatical jihadi warriors have invented to justify attacking us. 
