Trend: More US Citizens Involved In Islamic Extremism

According to a report  by Rice University  "Report: More than half of people arrested for Islamic terrorist activities were American citizens", 60% of the people arrested in cases of Islamic extremism were American citizens

Study analysed data of 104 people arrested during between January 2009 and April 2011 which included U.S. and non-U.S. citizens living in America or abroad.

This research data may be used for factual discussion and many unanswered questions.

Other key finding of the study include:

• Of the 104 people, half were born in the U.S., 22 percent were naturalized citizens, and 7 percent were dual citizens.
• Sixty-three percent of converts had a known prior criminal record.
• Of the 14 American converts with a prior criminal history, at least 55 percent had converted to Islam in prison.
• Ninety-two 92 percent were male.
• Sixty-four percent were 30 years old or younger.
• Sixty-six percent had traveled or were in the process of traveling to the Middle East, Somalia, South Asia or the Balkans.
• Of the 29 persons with no known association to a group, 11 had been active on terrorist-related chat rooms and websites.
• Overall, 38 percent had been involved in this Internet activity.
• Only 10 of the 104 are what the authors would consider “lone wolves”; most in the cohort had ties to others in the group or to an organization.

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