By Daniel Pipes
âItâs startling,â proclaims Spencer Ackerman in a New Republic cover story dated today, âhow few American Muslim extremists there actually are.â The article, âReligious Protection: Why American Muslims havenât turned to terrorism,â contrasts American Muslims with their European counterparts, whom he finds have turned to terrorism.
American Muslims are not terrorists? What is Ackerman thinking?
In an article and blog just this past week, I reported on fifteen American Muslim converts who have either engaged in terrorism or been convicted of trying to do so. In a follow-up piece, I listed another fifteen American converts to Islam suspected, arrested, or indicted of terrorism. Thatâs thirty converts. I have not counted the immigrant Muslims and their offspring implicated in terrorism, but here is some information that hints to their numbers:
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