Domestic Terror Threat

On newsweek.com, in the article “The Domestic Terror Threat” Paul Cruickshank points to the increasing number of radicalized Muslim Americans intent on committing violent jihad. There has been a spike in terrorism and in the past six months there have been nine cases of Muslims in the U.S. allegedly becoming involved in Islamist terrorism. This represents only a few of the 1.5 million American Muslims but according to a survey 7% have a “favorable” view of Al Qaeda. Radical preachers have increasingly used the Internet to encourage terrible acts by some, but luckily the Muslim community is largely immune to their messages. These figures are worrisome but I believe some of statistics are misleading. A “favorable” view can have many connotations and this article is narrowly focusing on a few alleged plots of terrorism. Despite these misleading figures I think it is terrible but necessary that we need to keep a close eye on people who pose a threat to our country in these ways.