A new study of homegrown terrorism in the U.S. says the threat of radicalization among American Muslims has been overstated, the Associated Press reports. Researchers identified 139 American Muslims who had been accused of planning or carrying out terror-related violence since September 11, 2001.
The report's authors say that number is small compared with terror cases in other countries, and compared to overall violent crime in the U.S. The study, from Duke University and the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, credits self-policing in American Muslim communities for limiting radicalization.
Posted by Shawn
Monday, January 25, 2010 05:49
Lydia, do you consider yourself to be smart by pointing out that one muslim was an author of the study? How many others were involved in the study? How many of those were muslims? How many were non-muslims?
Would you be inclined to believe that any study which has ONE muslim as an author must be 100% inaccurate, full of half truths and lies, so much so that the entire study must be dismissed?
Perhaps your comment says more about your ability to see the truth for what it is – that Muslims are not responsible for most of the terror in the US – and anything to suggest that would damage the credibility of people like you.
How stupid do you think WE are?
Posted by Lydia
Wednesday, January 06, 2010 09:09
One of the authors of this study is Muslim Ebrahim E.I. Moosa, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke. How convenient. AP left out that little fact. How stupid do they think we are?