Little Green Footballs alerted me to this little tidbit of information from Britain ( The Times):
Muhammad is now second only to Jack as the most popular name for baby boys in Britain and is likely to rise to No 1 by next year, a study by The Times has found. The name, if all 14 different spellings are included, was shared by 5,991 newborn boys last year, beating Thomas into third place, followed by Joshua and Oliver.
Hmmm… so do a little Google on “homegrown terrorists” and you get an alarming number of articles. Alarming for many reasons. Canada recognizes the problem. From an article at Canada’s NATIONAL POST:
The exact targets of these young terrorists were not revealed, but it is their profile that is most shocking: young Canadian Muslims who have somehow become radicalized while growing up in Canada.
They are “homegrown.” In other words, they have emerged from within Canada, rather than infiltrating it from abroad.
and this
The suicide bombings in London last July 7 that killed 52, for example, were the work of three British-born Muslims and a Jamaican-born immigrant who had converted to Islam. “The attacks showed very clearly that terrorism is a ‘homegrown’ problem,” said a British parliamentary committee’s report on the bombings.
I’m guessing that as long as the top three American baby boy names are Jacob, Michael, and Joshua most Americans will remain unaware… or more worried about right wing wackos… sigh.
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