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• W285941821 abstract "One of the recent news threads to have emerged in the mainstream media coverage of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq is the spate of home-grown terrorists--Americans who have attempted to or succeeded in perpetrating violence against the United States and its citizens. Unfortunately, this coverage has been particularly critical of the Muslim faith, as if the religion itself is conducive to fostering terrorists. Islam has emerged as a popular scapegoat for other larger, systemic problems that underlie the recent crop of home-grown terrorists. Additionally, the recent spate of home-grown terrorists is not the first instance in recent history where America has been targeted by its own citizens. In 1993, David Koresh led his Branch Davidian followers in a standoff against the FBI which resulted in the deaths of eighty-two people in Waco, Texas. Koresh thought of himself as a prophet, believing he was doing God's work by establishing a camp in Palestine, Texas, where he lived with his followers. He, too, experienced visions and felt himself to be God's tool in implementing the Davidic kingdom in Jerusalem. Meant to coincide with the two-year anniversary of the Waco Siege, Timothy McVeigh perpetrated the Oklahoma City bombing, the deadliest incident of terrorism on U.S. soil pre-9/11 (168 people died and approximately 700 injured). Although McVeigh was not a religious figure in his community, his obsession with firearms became his own religion. But it was the 1999 Columbine High School massacre that left an indelible imprint on my memory. I'll never forget watching the constant news coverage of the incident from the safe confines of my dormitory room. Ironically, I was living in Manhattan's East Village, not far from Tompkins Square Park and Alphabet City, neighbourhoods known as the seedy underbelly of Manhattan, yet I was safer than the teachers and children in a public school in suburban Colorado. What is striking about the massacre is that although it spurred a nationwide debate about gun control, no one connected the anti-social behaviour shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold expressed in their website and blog with the anti-social narcissism, loneliness and isolation which characterise Timothy McVeigh and David Koresh's biographies. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, like McVeigh, were not religious teenagers, yet they worshipped anarchy and scoffed at their local community's conventional social mores. We can see two major themes emerge from briefly recounting the above-mentioned incidents of terrorism on U.S. soil: that God, whether the Baptist or any other Christian faith's vision of Him, can be misappropriated as a motive behind widespread violence. And that human psychology, particularly in the forms of emotional distress and mental disorders, is a powerful lens with which to distort religious teachings and one's world view. Not coincidentally, present-day home-grown terrorists are men as young as the Columbine shooters or as established in their community as Koresh. Tarek Mehanna sounds eerily like the Muslim version of a Columbine shooter: twenty-seven years old and guilty of planning an attack in a large public space (this time a mall rather than a school) and sharing the same angst against the U.S. government McVeigh expressed. The Washington Post recently reported the aggressive and successful recruitment of Somali-American men by al-Qaeda that has come to light after a truck bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia, a terrorist incident in which Americans are suspected of participating. These radicalised youth who are training in al-Qaeda camps receive the support and community they seek while being appreciated for their American nationality and passports. …" @default.
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• W285941821 title "Home-Grown Terror in a Globalized World" @default.
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