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British And American Citizens Popping Up As Jihadists In Asia And Africa

Citizens

British troops are fighting jihadists with Yorkshire accents:

The Armed Forces are increasingly fighting British Muslims with Midlands and Yorkshire accents on the battlefields of Afghanistan. Intelligence reports show that rising numbers of home-grown jihadists have joined the Taliban so they can kill British soldiers. Senior military sources say UK troops are engaged in a 'surreal mini-civil war' in the dusty badlands of Helmand Province. The revelations came as the Ministry of Defence announced another three British soldiers had been killed in a roadside bomb attack in southern Afghanistan today.

The FBI has to track suicide bombers who were radicalized in Minnesota:

The F.B.I. director, Robert S. Mueller III, said Monday that a Somali-American man who was one of several suicide bombers in a terrorist attack last October in Somalia had apparently been indoctrinated into his extremist beliefs while living in the United States. The man, Shirwa Ahmed, was the first known suicide bomber with American citizenship. He immigrated with his family to the Minneapolis area in the mid-1990s, Mr. Mueller said, but he returned to Somalia after he was recruited by a militant group. "It appears that this individual was radicalized in his hometown in Minnesota," Mr. Mueller said, speaking at a meeting of the Council on Foreign Relations. Minneapolis claims the country's largest Somali population.

For those of you keeping count, the current number of Somali refugees in the US is about 80,000:

Eighty thousand Somalis, almost all of them Muslims, have been allowed into this country. What they have done can be seen in Lewiston, Maine, where their enormous burden on the benefits system left so little for the native poor, who had been paying into that system for decades, that the Mayor of Lewiston publicly expressed his alarm at the Somali influx. For his pains he was mechanically, and roundly, denounced as a "racist." Or it can be seen in the places where some Somalis do work, rather than live on benefits, such as those meat-packing plants in Nebraska and Colorado where the non-Somali workers, who bear the brunt of the behavior and attitudes of the Somalis in their midst, revolted when the meat-packing company was prepared to supinely give in to Muslim demands, demands that would have given preferential treatment to Muslim workers.

On the plus side Obama's new adviser on Pakistan and Afghanistan thinks that we can solve Islamist violence by solving the Arab-Israeli conflict. Because that's what's causing comfortable Western Muslims to become jihadists and suicide bombers.

I'm actually glad to learn this. If it was an ideological issue we might actually have to reexamine placid Western multiculturalism. And then where would we be?

References:
* Armed Forces 'are fighting British Muslims with Yorkshire accents' in Afghanistan [Daily Mail]
* Militants Drew Recruit in U.S., F.B.I. Says [NYT]
* Fitzgerald: Who decided that we owed this to Somalis? [Jihad Watch]
* Obama's adviser: Solve Arab-Israeli conflict, end global jihad [Jihad Watch]

Previously:
* NYT Opinion Column: Obama Should Reject Link Between Islam And Terrorism, Become "Post-Civilizational" President
* Fifteen Minutes Of Unmitigated Muslim Hatred Toward Jews, Christians, Americans, Westerners, Etc. [Video]
* Diplomatic Sophistication Heartbreak: Tension Between Iranian Political Factions A Little Exaggerated

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