They preferred bookstores or hookah bars to mosques. They stopped listening to pop music and instead surfed Web sites promoting radical Islam. They threw away their baseball caps and grew beards.
New York Police Department intelligence analysts have concluded those were some of the telltale signs of homegrown terrorists in the making -- a mounting threat as grave as that from established terror groups like al-Qaida.
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Instead of mosques, those places were more likely to be "cafes, cab driver hangouts, flop houses, prisons, student associations, non-governmental organizations, hookah bars, butcher shops and bookstores," the report says.
Yeah, remember that every dark skinned person is now a suspect. Pammy Atlas and Michelle Malkin are having simultaneous extended orgasms over this bit of news (sorry for the imagery, but TBogg is in Hawaii, and someone has to pick up the slack).
You know, it's strange that for some reason we seem to forget that the idea of terrorism isn't so new or unique in our society, nor in the those which make up the cultures that make up this grand experiment. You need to look no further than the fair-skinned kids whose allegiance to Ireland might have left them with the same ideas and discontent that the article/report talks about...
They "look, act, talk and walk like everyone around them," the study adds. "In the early stages of their radicalization, these individuals rarely travel, are not participating in any kind of militant activity, yet they are slowly building the mind-set, intention and commitment to conduct jihad."
Of course that would not fit the IRA model at all, now would it. The difference being that the IRA never had a philosphy of violence based on religious grounds. They were however, white, therefore not on anyone's radars unless they happened to cross paths with the Brits in Northern Ireland, I guess.
