"America Is Not Fertile Ground For Producing Jihadists"...I Beg To Differ!

I stumbled onto this Article in the Christian Science Monitor with the headline, "Radical Islam Finds U.S. to be Sterile Ground". I nearly choked when I read the following...

"Home-grown" terror cells remain a concern of US law officers, who cite several disrupted plots since 9/11. But the suspects' unsophisticated planning and tiny numbers have led some security analysts to conclude that America, for all its imperfections, is not fertile ground for producing jihadist terrorists.

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It's impossible to pinpoint the factors that produce home-grown terrorists, analysts say. But it's also impossible to ignore the stark contrast between the lives of Muslims in European countries where bombings have occurred and those of Muslims in America.

"What we have here among Muslim-Americans is a very conservative success ethic," says John Zogby, president of Zogby International in Utica, N.Y., whose polling firm has surveyed the Muslim-American community. "People come to this country and they like it. They don't view it as the belly of the beast. With very few exceptions, you don't see the bitter enclaves that you have in Europe."

I find the whole concept laughable on an idealistic level and extremely dangerous on a national security level. You don't need me to tell you this is B.S., just think about the country you live in. No one really wants to be American we are all guilty of that, this is the country where 10th generation Americans drive around with foreign flags on their rear view mirror, the country where everyone cheers for their ancestral nation during World Cup instead of the country they live in. This is the country where cities are still segregated into several different ethnic groups, personally I'm down the street from the Ukrainian Village, 2 miles from China town, half a block from Little Italy, across the highway from Greek Town and every shop owner in Arabic town (which overlaps over Korea town) knows my face.

England, a victim of homegrown terror is quite different, immigrants have almost totally assimilated into British society. If you question how true that is just observe British media and entertainment, you will be amazed at the number of Indian and Pakistani faces you'll see, broadcasters, actors and other T.V. personalities.

Don't let these kinds of articles and Zogby polling fool you, America is full of American born Muslims who dream of turning the U.S. into a Muslim controlled nation, complete with Islamic law, trust me I grew up around many of them. I was there in the Mosques, before 9/11 listening to the cries for Jihad and I was there after 9/11 in the Universities when Sheiks preached peace and love out of their own fear, they were wolves in sheep's clothing. Let me assure you that the faces in the Mosque with me, listening to hate speech were young men, born in America and when America suffers its first attack from the hands of home grown jihadists, it will be men like these who are blowing themselves up.

Are the majority of American born Muslims jihadist candidates? No, certainly not, don't come away thinking that! However is the U.S. safe from home grown terror? Far from it.

*Tomorrow I will post, "How To Detect An American Terrorist"

BTW- I love the guy with the Dale Earnhardt jacket wearing the traditional Arab scarf in the picture above.