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Topics => Radical Islam/GWOT => Topic started by: Pandora on May 23, 2011, 10:49:10 AM

Title: "The Terrorist Next Door:" - review by Patrick Poole
Post by: Pandora on May 23, 2011, 10:49:10 AM
The Terrorist Next Door: How the Government is Deceiving You About the Islamist Threat (http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/see-no-evil-challenging-the-narrative-on-homegrown-islamic-terrorism/?singlepage=true)

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As a counter-terrorism consultant, it is both frustrating and infuriating to listen to media figures and talking-heads discuss domestic Islamic terrorism. Anytime a Muslim is caught trying to kill Americans on American soil, these figures rush to tell us that these would-be terrorists are not known to have any connection to international terrorist groups, and therefore we shouldn’t be worried. But as we found out from the cases of Army Major Nidal Hasan and Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad, both were actually in communication with foreign terrorist organizations. (Hasan was emailing al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula chief Anwar al-Awlaki, and Shahzad had been commissioned by the Pakistani Taliban).

The message from the media: if a terrorist act isn’t connected to international terrorists, it really isn’t terrorism, but rather “violent extremism” or a “man-caused disaster.”

Another narrative floated by the establishment media in such circumstances: the so-called “lone wolf” jihadist is impossible to diagnose beforehand, and therefore the causes of such are random and ultimately unknowable.

The fact is that these “lone wolf” jihadists have rarely acted alone. We now know about the radicalization process — there are typically a whole host of actors and support networks pushing individuals through the radicalization pipeline. While these individuals and organizations may not have been directly involved in planning a terrorist attack, their participation in terms of indoctrinating would-be jihadists and providing religious justification for acts of violence is essential to the process.

The involvement of these support networks is almost never investigated by law enforcement or the establishment media. One of the few media figures on the terrorism beat who actually gets the problem is CBN News terrorism correspondent and Fox News terrorism analyst Erick Stakelbeck.

In his new book — The Terrorist Next Door: How the Government is Deceiving You about the Islamist Threat — Stakelbeck takes the reader on his journey through the world of Islamic terrorism. He recounts his experience interviewing al-Qaeda terrorist leaders (notably none of whom are living in caves, but in tony London suburbs), and his conversation with Noman Benotman, a former al-Qaeda operative and associate of Osama bin Laden. Stakelbeck has explored the shadowy world of how the international terrorist organization operates.

And he isn’t afraid to go into the belly of the beast: witness his investigation into a network of dozens of Islamic compounds scattered in rural areas across the U.S. The compounds are controlled by a terror-tied Pakistani cleric who has been videotaped conducting terrorist training sessions with his followers on bombings, kidnappings, and assassinations.

Stakelbeck also explores the bizarre and counterproductive policy of the U.S. government — time and again, they turn to those responsible for radicalizing American Muslims for advice on dealing with the radicalization problem.
Title: Re: "The Terrorist Next Door:" - review by Patrick Poole
Post by: Libertas on May 23, 2011, 10:58:57 AM
What you highlighted is because of their slavish devotion to the multi-culti/diversity/pc cult and it colors them from acting on these Mosques in our own nation that are fomenting terror and murder!  They'll go after perceived Christian radicals and burn them down in their own places of worship but somehow Mosques are off-limits?!

Down is up, wrong is right...the multi-culti/diversity/pc cultists are going to get us all killed!

But I'll tell you what, they better come at me in a big wave, cause I ain't submitting and I damn sure ain't going down easy or alone!

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