Nixon Center Director for Immigration and National Security and author of the forthcoming “Europe’s Angry Muslims” says European plotters are more connected to each other and to jihadist movements and training camps abroad than would-be American Muslim terrorists.
He cites the greater number of radicals in Europe, their ties to one another, their organic ties to training camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan, as major differences. He also says the “clash of civilizations” that happens to offspring of labor migrants from rural villages doesn’t happen to Muslims in America, who mostly hail from business and professional families and who typically make more money than the average American.
He says what both groups share, however, is the narrative of Muslims being oppressed all over the world, usually by the United States.
