US breeding terrorists, Obama told

[Yellow_Belle]

Is Mrs Myrick ‘an Islamist conspiracist’, as she has been labelled, or just a politician playing to her constituency?

AMERICA’S home-grown terrorism is now a global threat and the United States should look to Europe to learn how to deal with it, President Barack Obama has been warned. A prominent member of Congress, Sue Myrick, has told Mr Obama in a letter that America is now exporting Islamist terrorism.

Mrs Myrick, a Republican serving on the House of Representatives’ select committee on intelligence, accused the US of complacency, saying it was ‘‘far behind’’ Europe in taking steps to deal with the growing radicalisation of young men and their willingness to carry out attacks. Her letter marked a departure from a long-held view in the US that Britain was the biggest threat to America as a result of its position as a staging point for extremists from Pakistan, the Middle East and east Africa.

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[DawnInTexas]

Well, duh.

(I’m not slamming the thread-but the idea that Obama may not be aware). It’s good that she’s being vocal regarding this…

…President Barack Obama says the economy will be his “singular focus” over the next two years……Obama says the American people will hold both parties accountable for the impact of their policies on the economy…

Priorities, you know.

God Bless you.
+As Abraham Lincoln asserted, “If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” We are dying by suicide, moral and spiritual suicide, and the moral demise of a nation almost always precedes the ultimate demise of a nation.
-Fr. John Corapi
Love, Dawn

 

[PattiDay]

Is Mrs Myrick ‘an Islamist conspiracist’, as she has been labelled, or just a politician playing to her constituency?

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Of course she is playing to her constituency and using her political currency.

This whole ‘home-grown terrorist’ thing is more for show and gets most of its play on the entertainment news shows on Fox and MSNBC, and somewhat less on the networks.

I don’t think it’s ouside the realm of possibility. There was the guy out in the Northwest, a home-grown muslim looking to get radicalized, but he was a dismal failure at it. There are so many other things to concern ouselves about than highly politicalized and sensationalized stuff like this.

What are your thoughts on it?

 

[Darryl1958]

Or, maybe it is true. Maybe more and more young Americans are becoming radicalized by the Islamist literature that abounds everywhere.

As for CAIR infiltrating government with spies, such claims need more substantiation than ‘I heard it from a friend of a friend’. CAIR is a horrendous organization, but totally unsubstantiated claims against them are either muckraking or paranoia. It serves no constituency to so engage.

 

[Yellow_Belle]

Of course she is playing to her constituency and using her political currency.

This whole ‘home-grown terrorist’ thing is more for show and gets most of its play on the entertainment news shows on Fox and MSNBC, and somewhat less on the networks.

I don’t think it’s ouside the realm of possibility. There was the guy out in the Northwest, a home-grown muslim looking to get radicalized, but he was a dismal failure at it. There are so many other things to concern ouselves about than highly politicalized and sensationalized stuff like this.

What are your thoughts on it?

I don’t know what to think, really: I’m a clueless outsider on this and I was hoping to get Americans’ perspectives on it. It’s very difficult to judge what level of reality any politician in another country is speaking from, or what the audience might be for this kind of rhetoric.

Again, as an outsider but from a country that has had its own particular brand of ideologically-led home-grown ‘terrorism’, I would consider it incredibly naïve to think that the US would be somehow immune from it.