ENOUGH ALREADY!
Sheesh.
Sheesh.
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How To Profile A Terrorist.
[FONT=arial !important]BY ADAM SERWER | POSTED 09/23/2010 AT 03:10 PM
[/FONT]http://prospect.org/csnc/blogs/adam_serwer_archive?month=09&year=2010&base_name=how_to_profile_a_terrorist
You can't. Or at least, it's very hard to, according to the Congressional Research Service's report on homegrown terrorism:
Scholars and law enforcement officials have noted that no workable general profile of domestic violent jihadists exists. According to theNYPDs Intelligence Division, there is no effective profile to predict exactly who will radicalize. Another study found only broad trends among domestic jihadist terrorists, specifically that they are overwhelmingly male and about two-thirds of them are younger than 30 years old. As the above discussion may suggest, generalizing about the individuals involved is problematic.
Indeed, there does not appear to be a common thread connecting the U.S. Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Hasan with the Caucasian convert, Daniel Patrick Boyd; the Afghan immigrant Najibullah Zazi with Carlos Bledsoe, an African American of a happy childhood who converted to Islam and renamed himselfAbdulhakim Muhammed; David Headley, who was bornDaood Gilani to a successful Pakistani immigrant father and American mother, with Talib Islam, who was born Michael Fintonand raised in multiple foster homes; or the educated pharmacistTarek Mehanna, with the Somali American from MinneapolisShirwa Ahmed, who traveled to the land of his birth and became the first U.S. citizen suicide bomber. The plots and attacks drew in first-and second-generation Muslim-American immigrants and native-born Americans who converted to the faith. Some included individuals acting alone, while others had multiple co-conspirators. Some plots were aspirational. Others appear to have been pushed along by government informants or undercover agents, and still others were serious and calculating until uncovered by intelligence and/or law enforcement officials
That just says "phobe". 1.5 billion isn't a sample, it's not a profile, it's a pool. The pool isn't all bad, no pool is, well, except for that one I had that accident in but we wont talk of it any more. No, I insist. That was years ago and it's been disinfected.UPDATE: I'm amused by some of the comments on this thread to the effect of, "the common thread is that these terrorists are all Muslim." Congratulations: You've just narrowed it down to 1.5 billion people.
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I'm a 3. You are disciplined but tolerant; a true American.
I also agree with every single thing Last Legionary wrote, and more, I am glad it was said. I believe it needs to be said. Some of the things said here by mostly one person are dangerously extremist... so extremist right-wing at times that I would not be surprised if it's on a watch list somewhere.