http://centerlineblog.org/2010/07/27/nothing-new-about-homegrown-terrorism/ The Blog of the Center on Law and Security Wed, 16 May 2012 23:49:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://centerlineblog.org/2010/07/27/nothing-new-about-homegrown-terrorism/#comment-202 Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:51:44 +0000 http://centerlineblog.org/?p=2152#comment-202 Fair enough, though it seems like the author should include Adam Chesser in that list. What the media seem to be expressing is not Americans’ fear that citizens, in the term’s proper usage, may undertake terrorist acts in the United States, but that the white kid next door will. Sure homegrown terrorism is nothing particularly new, but through a murky connection of Faisal Shahzad to Adam Chesser, you arrive at an extremely dangerous kid next door. Alarmist as that may be, it seems like the media are as much expressing popular feeling as they are fear-mongering. The real public fear is that simple teenage angst will motivate Islamic extremism. And that it will be carried out by people you’d never think to profile–white suburbanites.

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