Debates are ensuing amongst intelligence analysts, counterterrorism officials and Congress over whether Hasan is part of a larger trend of “homegrown radicalization” and whether changes are needed in how law enforcement investigates individuals absent evidence of crime, what kind of information intelligence agencies can collect on U.S. citizens, or how such sensitive information can be…
Known alternatively as the “Beurgeois”, Muslim yuppies or the Muslim “Bobos” (from “Bourgeois Bohemians”) are a group of upwardly mobile Paris-living French-born Muslim young people in their 30s who are creating a demand for halal-respected fine dining. The website www.paris-hallal.com lists the most popular. This Libération article profiles one, “Enfant terrible,” said to be fashionable,…
When police rounded up 18 terror suspects around Toronto in 2006, they found copies of manifestos with titles such as The Book of Jihad, The Virtues of Jihad, Fundamental Concepts Regarding Al-Jihad and 39 Ways to Serve and Participate in Jihad. Such reading materials now enjoy “influence and popularity” in Canada, says a secret government…
The Spanish parliament will vote on an initiative to recognize the injustice done to the Moors expelled from the country 400 years ago. The non-legislative proposal asks the government to take action to strengthen economic, social and cultural ties to the descendants of the Moors expelled from Spanish territory in the seventeenth century. The proposal…
