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Article: Changing minds; Engage American Muslims.(OPED)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- February 22, 2007
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Byline: Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The terrorist plot uncovered last month in which nine Pakistani Muslims living in Britain planned to kidnap, torture and behead a fellow British Muslim a soldier who had served in Afghanistan was gruesome and unprecedented. Unlike other recent terrorist activity, it targeted a specific individual; the terrorists hoped to bring the images of captivity and slaughter now associated with Iraq into the West.
The plot recalls a question that U.S. officials have been asking: Why hasn't the American Muslim community reached the same level of radicalism as Europe's Muslims? Al-Husein Madhany, an ...