Pakistan Observer
By: Air Cdre Khalid Iqbal (R)
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During Munich Security Conference 2011, Prime Minister David Cameron made a belated yet very pertinent comment by clearly distinguishing Islam from Islamist violent extremism. He acknowledged that many of Britain’s home grown terrorists are not the product of failed integration, but rather “have been graduates and often middle class”. Historically, extremism has never been confined to any particular religion or ideology; it belongs to every religion and culture. Duke University and University of North Carolina have published a study on terrorism in February 2011. It revealed that in 2009, more non-Muslim Americans were involved in terrorist plots than Muslim Americans; last year there were more than twenty plots by non-Muslims.
The ‘Triangle Centre on Terrorism and Homeland Security’ has confirmed that tips from the Muslim American community resulted in prevention of potential terrorist plots in forty-eight of the 120 cases involving Muslim Americans. Data from the ‘Muslim Public Affairs Council’ also indicates that Muslim community helped and assisted law enforcement in 75 percent of all al-Qaeda related plots since December 2009. Moreover, American Muslims…
Mark Fallon, a thirty-year veteran of federal law enforcement and counterintelligence, says the Muslim community has provided a “significant level of cooperation” in combating terrorism; he is worried that the rhetoric from some criticz, like Representative Peter King, risks alienating a segment of American population that “needs to be part of the solution.” He is of the opinion that the process of radicalization, or “violent extremism,” is usually a function of conditions highly personal to the subject, rather than ideological…
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