JIHAD JANE AND THE FEAR OF MORE HOMEGROWN TERRORISM; ROBERT SPENCER
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/03/jihad-jane-arrest-raises-fears-of-homegrown-terrorists-but-no-one-really-wants-to-do-anything-about.html
Jihad Jane arrest raises fears of “homegrown terrorists,” but no one really wants to do anything about it
The one thing that can and should be done would be to call American Muslim groups to account, and demand that they institute in mosques and Islamic schools comprehensive, honest, inspectable programs teaching against the jihad doctrine and Islamic supremacism. But officials will never do this. They would prefer to pretend that the jihad doctrine and Islamic supremacism do not exist. And so we will see many more Jihad Janes.
“‘Jihad Jane’s’ Arrest Raises Fears About Homegrown Terrorists,” by Huma Khan, Emily Friedman, and Jason Ryan for ABC News, March 10 (thanks to Sr. Soph):
The arrest of a suburban Pennsylvania woman known by the alias Jihad Jane, who allegedly plotted with Islamic radicals abroad to kill a Swedish cartoonist, has raised fears about homegrown terrorists in the United States who may be difficult to spot. Suburban Pennsylvania woman is charged with recruiting extremists online.
“This woman might as well have advertised in the Washington Post,” former White House counterterrorism official and ABC News consultant Richard Clarke said on “Good Morning America” today. “It was easy for the FBI to find her, but there are other people who are much more covert.”
“There will likely be more attacks,” Clarke said. “Hopefully, they will be small, and hopefully, we can catch them early.”
Colleen R. LaRose, 46, of Montgomery, Pa., was arrested in October 2009 and charged with trying to recruit Islamic fighters and plotting to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist who made fun of prophet Mohammed, according to a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday.
The FBI had kept the case secret while it looked for more suspects in the United States and abroad. The case was made public after seven men were arrested in Ireland this week, suspected of plotting to kill the Swedish cartoonist.
LaRose’s case is rare, Clark [sic] said, but it shows the capability of international dissident groups to reach out to Americans via the Internet.
“This is a very rare case of a disturbed woman,” he said, but it signifies how “the Internet not only allows them to communicate, it allows them to recruit.”
Their persuasive speeches and sermons, which have been effective in recruiting men and women in the Middle East, are “beginning to work for some misfits in the United States,” he said….
But neither Clarke nor anyone else ever asks himself why these speeches and sermons are so persuasive.
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