extremism

For a very good and comprehensive look at why, as he puts it, “homegrown Islamic terrorism isn’t a threat,” even after the Fort Hood horror, read every word of this overview by Max Fisher of The Atlantic. A very small sample:
Concerns about the loyalty of Muslim-Americans have little basis. U.S. Muslims are even happier with [...]

At this point, following investigators’ lead, it’s probably fair to conclude that the Fort Hood shooting suspect was motivated by religious extremism:
U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan was attempting to make contact with people associated with al Qaeda, two American officials briefed on classified material in the case [...]

After writing my last post, I feel compelled to point out that while investigators may believe so far that Ft. Hood shooting suspect Nidal Malik Hasan acted alone, those who knew him say that he did exhibit what in retrospect are warning signs of religious-extremist behavior. Via Andrew Sullivan, this NPR report is a case [...]

The NEFA Foundation has a translation of the new Osama bin Laden tape. bin Laden’s message might even be considered cynical in light of how he keeps going back to the radical-Salafist well, particularly on the role of Israel in al-Qaeda’s imagination. (”First, I say: we have shown and declared many times over more than [...]

After filing a Freedom of Information Act request, the Virginia-based Americans for Limited Government obtained documents from the Department of Homeland Security detailing how its controversial report on the rise of “rightwing extremism” was put together. Among the sources (pdf): The New York Times, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and this Washington Independent story on [...]

It’s easy and cheap to grouse about Pakistan’s “will” to confront extremism in the tribal areas, but this Washington Post piece about how the Pakistani military is taking its sweet time to conduct its much-boasted-about military offensive in the tribal areas contains quite a dash of cold water:
“It’s an insane dream to expect anything different [...]

Similar to the criminal component of a federal law aimed at preventing abortion violence and intimidation, civil enforcement fell dramatically under President Bush.

For example, this is not happening.

Andrew Lee Patterson identifies himself as the state leader of the National Socialist Movement, Oregon Unit, and said he has been a “storm trooper, first class” with the movement for about six months. Other unit leaders from around the state selected him as leader based on his active involvement, he [...]

The key bit of this story on a number of conservative House Republicans howling — sorry, proceeding to the floor of the world’s second-greatest deliberative body and speaking in measured tones — for the resignation of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano over the department’s right-wing extremism report would seem to be this:

House Minority Leader John [...]

Here’s a quick appendix to yesterday’s story about the civil war in the right-wing anti-terrorism blogosphere. I quoted Robert Spencer of JihadWatch as saying:
I wrote a book called ‘Religion of Peace’ — which [Little Green Footballs' Charles] Johnson wrote a favorable review of — and I looked, and didn’t find, Christian extremists who were trying [...]