lowclass
is that the pakistani flag?
Beenlow
you are absolutely right, and i met an old school friend convert who doesnt consider most of us living here except the cell or sect he belongs to. these guys remind me of david koresh and cult like figures. they swear on ossama bin laden or whoever brainwashed them. these guys learn jihad before they learn how to pray and fast.
Al Qaeda exploits 'blue-eyed' Muslim converts
With increasing frequency, Al-Qaeda is exploiting Muslim converts whose mother and father are French, English, Spanish or Italian and who live in society normally, with society's habits - new terrorists who are absolutely undetectable and who are becoming radical. Apparently conversions are happening more quickly and the commitment is more radical, with most being people who feel devalued or despised who believe that by becoming terrorists they can "suddenly become supermen and heroes," at least in their own sick minds. Others are idealogue extremists who want to change the world order and are attracted to radical Islam as a mechanism "to challenge and overthrow the existing world order":
What prompts someone to convert to Islam and to sign up for global "holy war" in the name of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda?
Security agencies are asking that question with increasing urgency as they confront a growing catalogue of actual or attempted attacks in which Muslim converts are suspected of playing prominent roles.
Richard Reid, the convicted British "shoebomber" who tried to set off explosives in his footwear on a 2001 trans-Atlantic flight, was a petty criminal who first turned to Islam during a spell in prison.
Christian Ganczarski, a German suspected of involvement in a 2002 bombing in Tunisia, converted at 20 before embarking on a jihadist career in which, investigators believe, he became a close associate of bin Laden's.
Other high-profile militant converts include Jamaican-born Germaine Lindsay, one of four suicide bombers who killed 52 people in London in July, and Briton Andrew Rowe, jailed for 15 years last month for possessing terrorist materials.
Frenchman Lionel Dumont, a suspected Rowe associate and another convert, will go on trial in December accused of a series of attacks in the 1990s, including an attempt to bomb a Group of Seven summit in Lille.
"It's striking, the number of converts engaged in terrorist activities," said Michael Taarnby, a researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies who has studied the recruitment and radicalisation of Islamist militants.
Jean-Louis Bruguiere, France's top anti-terrorism judge, told the newspaper Le Figaro in an interview: "The converts are undeniably the toughest.
http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2005/ ... exploi.php
