U.S. Lawmakers Take Aim at Homegrown Terrorist Threat and miss.
This article is a mixed blessing; on one hand a few representatives are starting to realize we have a problem and on the other they do not understand it and have no plan to stop the spread of radical islam. To date not a single muslim community has stepped up and reported a radical recruiter, trainer or participant. I seriously doubt one ever will. The internet is a simple tool in the hand of jihadi no more responsible for radicalization than it is the bombs fault for being built.
One tool that has the power to stop islam is the net. By educating the world on what islam is and how it spreads we can push the minions back. By exposing the followers of the world’s most famous pedophile, we can discredit him and his evil, oppressive and backward ideology. Our representatives are clueless, vote against the incumbents, especially the worthless democrats. We gave them a fair shot and they failed.
By Catherine Herridge, 7 August, 2008, FOXNEWS
WASHINGTON — Many Americans believe that the threat of homegrown terrorism is gravest in Europe, but according to the U.S. government, in the last 18 months more than a half-dozen plots were thwarted right here at home.
Sen. Joe Lieberman says the threat is growing.
-If any one threat to America outshines islam it is another 4 years of democratic control of both houses.
“Bottom line: There is a threat of homegrown terror in America,” he said. “It is not as great as in European cities, but it is growing and we have to take it seriously.”
-Then let us drill and use our own fuel you F*&^ing idiot. Stop all aid to muslim countries and limit all US aid to countries with a 21st century human rights record. Bottom line Senator-you are part of the problem not the solution.
Three young Ohioans were convicted in June on terrorism charges after officials gathered evidence against them that included suicide bomb belts filled with ball bearings.
Mohammed Amawi, Marwan el-Hindi and Wassim Mazloum were part of a terror cell in Toledo that wanted to launch attacks against U.S. troops overseas — made all the easier by their status as Americans.
-We can not trust home growns and yet we still let thousands more enter the country each year and attend our top universities.
“Being an American gives you a passport around the world,” said Andrew Cochran, chairman of the Counterterrorism Foundation and editor of the Counterterrorism blog. “These again are instances of homegrowns who take it to the limit. … These people wanted to go all the way to Iraq.”
Other homegrown terrorists have planned attacks on the homefront. Derrick Shareef, then just 22, was inspired by a violent Islamist ideology to plan a grenade attack against a shopping mall in Rockford, Ill. He eventually pleaded guilty to terror charges.
-When will they understand that any excuse and any place will work for jihad?
The Internet is fast becoming the dominant tool for the training and recruitment of terrorists. Some lawmakers are attempting to shut down such sites and those with the most extreme propaganda tapes, often made by Al Qaeda’s media arm, As-Sahab.
-Which will quickly grow into shutting down sites that fight back.
“I am continuing to work to try to bring down the terrorist Web sites on the Internet,” Lieberman said. “I think the critical role… [is] reaching out to try to stop the problem in local areas before it starts.”
The shutting down of certain Web sites is a prospect some critics are dreading.
“We have a First Amendment and we champion the Constitution, and so in no way, shape or form should we engage in censorship of the internet,” said Kareem Shora, national executive director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.
“But the community recognizes that the Internet can be a dangerous tool for youth,” he said, “so we’re working on that by giving constructive alternatives to the youth.”
Ultimately, experts say, the Web will replace traditional terrorist training with cyber training, making it easier to recruit homegrown terrorists.
-Bullshit, they are recruited by people inside every muslim community in America just like overseas. Hundreds of millions of muslims have conducted jihad for centuries not a single one of them ever logged online. They came from all types of races, cultures, sects of islam and they had only a single common denominator-the koran.
“It’s not a substitute for physical field training, but it can come close to creating situations on how to train for an urban attack, a mall attack,” Cochran said. “It’s somewhat like what some of the 9/11 hijackers used in flight simulation software.”
According to experts, young, middle-class American Muslims are most at risk — men who don’t know a lot about their religion and in an effort to educate themselves fall victim to an extreme ideology.
Yet American Muslim groups say that formula amounts to racial profiling.
-islam is not a race, it may come under ideological profiling but we already know that.
“Giving parameters as far as race, religious views or age groups really misses the point. We should be much more sophisticated in the way we approach threats against our country,” Shora said.
U.S. lawmakers also are looking at ways of addressing the root causes of homegrown terrorism.
-Read the koran, understand it, outlaw it, seize them and destroy them. Problem solved.
“We also have to … reach out and grab the hearts and minds, particularly of young Muslim-American males,” Lieberman said “We’ve got to count on their family members and close friends if they see them heading in this direction.”
-One of the stupidest things I ever heard him say and there have been plenty. Provide one example where any family has reported a single minion prior to him being killed, arrested or captured in the act. Get it yet-dumbass?
