Glenn Greenwald takes on the allegedly growing domestic Muslim threat.
At least from all appearances, these claims are being made exclusively on the basis of a handful of recent episodes involving American Muslims accused of having links to Al Qaeda and/or the Taliban. There is no data whatsoever offered to corroborate the claim of a “trend.” Given the obvious dangers inherent in trumpeting threats from internal sources — as well as the motives the Government generally has in disseminating such warnings and the motive it specifically has when escalating a war — far more than a few anecdotes ought to be required before any of this is believed.
Abu Noor Al-Irlandee 6:18 pm on December 14, 2009 Permalink |
Greenwald says
Unfortunately Muslim organizations seem to promoting this effort to diagnose a trend and claim to have the cure for it as much as, if not more so than the government.
I understand and appreciate the desire to be seen as relevant and important (and in some cases the desire to actually be relevant and important) but I don’t like the constant political posturing that substitutes for real understanding of what our communities issues are and what might be helpful in addressing those issues.