Home Grown Terrorists A Real Threat, Internet Blamed

Really? Ya think? You mean the internet is a major source of radicalization of Muslims? The Blotter:

U.S. law enforcement officials say they have identified more than two dozen "clusters" of young Muslim men in the northeast United States who are on a path that could lead to homegrown terror, ABC News has learned

They use the word "cluster" because to use the word "cell" would be to imply a greater deal of cohesion and control from outside. But if you think about it, that's at least 24 groups of young Muslim men who live in the Northeast U.S. that may be plotting to blow you up as we speak.

At least one of these "clusters" is certainly the Islamic Thinkers Society of New York.

"The threat is real; this is not some bogey man we are creating here. There are individuals who are proselytizing, inciting angry young men to go down this path," said Jenkins, who reviewed and contributed to the NYPD report.

The report identifies mosques, bookstores, cafes, prisons and flop houses as what it calls "radicalization incubators" that provide "extremist fodder or fuel for radicalization."....

The report, in its conclusions, asserts that the most significant threat to the homeland is not al Qaeda but the spread of the ideology promulgated by violent extremist Muslims, such as those belonging to al Qaeda, into the United States where it helps to radicalize residents....

We assess that the spread of radical -- especially Salafi -- Internet sites, increasingly aggressive anti-U.S. rhetoric and actions and the growing number of radical, self-generating cells in Western countries indicate that the radical and violent segment of the West's Muslim population is expanding, including in the United States," the NIE says in its most significant paragraph on the topic.

Wow, so insightful, new, and shocking.

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