Selain M Syarif yang jadi pembom masjid di Cirebon, ini satu lagi dari sekian 
ribu dan juta bukti bahwa ISLAM ADALAH BAHAYA LATENT UTNUK ANAK-ANAK KITA 
MANUSIA yang BERADAB.
Semua anak kita dalam bahaya dicuci otaknya, jadi brutal dan gila, pembunuh dan 
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MUHAMMAD SAW.


American jihad: Facing up to homegrown militancy
By Jonny Dymond BBC News, USA

19 April 2011 Last updated at 00:08 GMT

In the years after 9/11 the threat to America from Islamist militants seemed to
come exclusively from abroad, but recent events have disproved that assumption -
and posed the question how to prevent the radicalisation of Muslim immigrants.
Omar Hammami Omar Hammami learned about his Muslim background on a visit to
Syria as a teenager

The town of Daphne in the state of Alabama is one of the last places you would
associate with violent jihad.

It is a place of ease and comfort, tidy and prosperous. Large houses sit well
back from the road, sprawling lazily in the trees in the warm spring sunshine.
In front of many homes and shops the Stars and Stripes hangs, barely moving in
the late afternoon stillness.

Here Omar Hammami grew up, an all-American boy, baptised and church-going.

Here he discarded his upbringing and religion and turned to an ever more
orthodox Islam.

And here he began a journey that has taken him to the wilds of Somalia, and a
high profile position in al-Shabab, the brutal Islamist insurgent group.
Syria visit

Few would have predicted it.

"His dad is Syrian, a Sunni Muslim, his mom's a Southern Baptist, from a little
tiny town down here. His mom would take him to church and stuff like that," his
schoolfriend, James Culveyhouse, explains.

Omar Hammami was popular at school, quick witted and charismatic, elected
president of his school year.
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Things started to change when Hammami visited Syria as a teenager.

"When he went on vacation he started to realise, I'm not just American, I've got
this other side to me. He read more and more and by the time he was 15 he was
like, 'I wanna be a Muslim,'" Culveyhouse says.

Over the years Omar Hammami became an adherent of stricter and stricter Islam -
turning far more orthodox than his father.

Eventually both Hammami and Culveyhouse moved to Toronto, which has a large
Somali community.

There, says Culveyhouse, Omar Hammami's Islam became powerfully politicised.

What happened to Omar Hammami is important because homegrown jihad is becoming a
problem for the US.

For years Americans believed themselves isolated from what seemed, in the West,
a European problem.

But there have been a number of cases that show this is no longer so:

* Dozens of young men have left the Somali community in Minnesota to wage
war in Somalia

* Adam Gadahn grew up in California, converted to Islam and now speaks for
al-Qaeda in Pakistan

* Faisal Shahzad lived in the US for a decade before attempting to bomb
Times Square in New York City

* And Major Nidal Hassan, born in the state of Virginia, became a doctor and
a US soldier - now he stands accused of killing 13 people and wounding 29 others
in a shooting spree at Fort Hood in Texas

Muslim diversity

"Al-Qaeda until now used to be a foreign threat," says Peter Neumann, the
director of the International Centre for Radicalisation at Kings College London,
currently in Washington DC.
James Culveyhouse James Culveyhouse saw the gradual change in his friend Omar
Hammami

"Now that al-Qaeda threat has become more homegrown, it raises questions about
how to deal with certain communities. Americans are not used to that."

The experiences of American Muslims - an estimated 1% of the population - are
wildly different.

Mia Bloom, a fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Terrorism at
Penn State University gives the contrasting examples of Somali refugees and
Pakistani immigrants in the US.

Immigrants from Pakistan to New Jersey often join an existing community that
helps them to integrate, she explains, whereas "refugees, especially refugees
from war-torn areas like Somalia, have a very different kind of assimilation
process".

The debate about Muslim immigration and radicalisation has been rumbling for
some time now in the US.

The strong reactions to a proposed Islamic centre and mosque near the site of
the 9/11 attacks in New York City were one manifestation of Americans' concern
over Islam within US borders.

More directly the Homeland Security Committee of the House of Representatives
has been holding hearings into Islamic radicalisation in America - and, more
contentiously, asking whether Muslim leaders are co-operating fully with US law
enforcement authorities.
Identity crisis

But not much of the debate so far has directly tackled why, in a society famous
for its ability to integrate, some shuck off their American identity with such
vigour, and to such a violent end.

James Culveyhouse - who converted to Islam himself - has some ideas about where
to start looking for home-grown jihadis.

"It's not first generation immigrants," he says, "they are not going off (to
fight)." Nor he says, is it the children of religious immigrants.

Instead he says, look to those who are brought up in secular or non-practising
households. An identity crisis comes at some point.

"It's like a rubber band," he says. "You pull far enough in on direction and
you've got to let it go sometime."

You can hear Jonny Dymond's programme American Jihad on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday
19 April 2011 at 2000 BST and again on Sunday 24 April at 1700 BST. You can also
listen on the iPlayer.



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