By Scott Shane WASHINGTON — In the 14 years since Al Qaeda carried out attacks on New York and the Pentagon, extremists have regularly executed smaller lethal assaults in the United States, explaining their motives in online manifestoes or social media rants. But the breakdown of extremist Continue Reading
Journey to Jihad
By Ben Taub In 2009, a fourteen-year-old Belgian named Jejoen Bontinck slipped a sparkly white glove onto his left hand, squeezed into a sequinned black cardigan, and appeared on the reality-television contest “Move Like Michael Jackson.” He had travelled to Ghent from his home, in Antwerp, with Continue Reading
After Texas, is it ‘high time’ we ban Muhammad cartoons?
By Brian Pellot Not again. Police shot dead two gunmen who opened fire at Pamela Geller’s “Muhammad Art Exhibit” in Garland, Texas last night. The news hit hard for three reasons: A security officer was needlessly shot and a town terrorized, ostensibly over art. The gunmen’s actions Continue Reading
Her Majesty’s Jihadists
By Mary Anne Weaver He was a dreamer, with Che Guevara looks — a jet-black beard and eyes — who built a new persona online, as a Muslim warrior riding into battle in the back of an open-bed truck, dressed in black, his long hair blowing in the breeze, with an AK-47 hanging from his shoulder, Continue Reading
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