Homegrown Terrorists

Dire Warnings Over Muslim American Terrorists Overblown, Study Finds

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 02.08.2012

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WASHINGTON -- A new study of homegrown terrorism involving Muslim Americans suggests that the alarm bells set off by Republicans in Congress over slee...

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House Bill Would Authorize Czar To Watch Islamist Extremists But Not Other Domestic Terrorists

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 12.10.2011

WASHINGTON -- A House bill set for markup on Wednesday would give protection against civil lawsuits to those who report suspicious activity, designate...

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Clinton: Osama Bin Laden Raid A Watershed Moment For Pakistan

AP | By ANNE GEARAN and NAHAL TOOSI | Posted 07.27.2011

ISLAMABAD -- The killing of Osama bin Laden is a watershed moment for Pakistan's confrontation with homegrown terrorism, U.S. Secretary of State Hilla...

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U.S. Does Not Have System In Place To Deal With Growing Threat Of Domestic Radicals: Report

AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. was slow to take seriously the threat posed by homegrown radicals and the government has failed to put systems in place to...

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A Phony War

Michael Brenner | Posted 05.25.2011

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If 9/11 had not occurred, all other factors being the same -- including our wars in the Greater Middle East, would we be so worried over the threat of home grown terrorism? Highly unlikely.

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Misunderstanding Terrorism, Misrepresenting Islam

Louis Klarevas | Posted 05.25.2011

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This weekend, the FBI arrested a man for planting what he thought was an improvised explosive device outside Wrigley Field in Chicago. Sami Samir Hass...

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Banned Under Bush, Muslim Scholar Tariq Ramadan Returns to US

Matt Sledge | Posted 05.25.2011

Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan -- whose visa was formerly revoked by the State Department in 2004 -- has returned to the United States for a series of lectures.

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A Journey into America, Past and Present

Akbar Ahmed | Posted 05.25.2011

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Muslims are for Americans what the Russians were for Churchill: "A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma." While the post-9/11 period brought...

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Jihadi Cool: Terrorist Recruiters' Latest Weapon

npr.org | Posted 05.25.2011

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With so many terrorism cases emerging in the U.S. in the past nine months, experts are trying to understand why so much is happening now. One explanat...

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Jihad and the American Creed

Khalil Marrar | Posted 05.25.2011

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If anyone is inclined to think that life in America might have driven Faisal Shahzad, Najbullah Zazi and David Coleman Headley to their radical agendas, think again.

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It's the Guns, Stupid: Why Handguns Remain One of the Biggest Threats To Homeland Security

Louis Klarevas | Posted 05.25.2011

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I no longer wonder "if" a Mumbai-style attack will occur in the U.S. Absent the implementation of serious gun control measures, I now ask "when"?

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Muslim Youth Radicalization or Politically Correct Islamophobia?

Reem Salahi | Posted 05.25.2011

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The discourse on radicalization and homegrown terrorism is fundamentally racist and Islamophobic. It is based on seeing Muslims as the "other" and viewing our actions through an "orientalist" lens.

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Another Homegrown Terrorism Case

Lydia Khalil | Posted 05.25.2011

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Just because homegrown plots constitute the majority of those uncovered doesn't mean that homegrown terrorism is the greatest threat.

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We Are Not Europe

James Zogby | Posted 05.25.2011

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We must address the alienation of young Muslims, which can lead to violence. But we must address the problem with a scalpel and not a sledgehammer, or we'll exacerbate it.

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Where's the (Fake) Conservative Outrage on This Threat Assessment?

John Ridley | Posted 05.25.2011

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If conservatives are so sensitive to "shoddy" threat assessments, where's the (fake) outrage over Virginia's recently leaked report that the state's historically black colleges form a "radicalization node" for extremists?

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