Homegrown Terrorists Puzzle Britain

LONDON (AP) - One was an athletic teenager who had grown into a devout young man, another a soccer-loving convert to Islam. The youngest was 17, the oldest 35. Many were born in Britain and all were reared here.

As police held 23 young British Muslims accused of plotting devastating airline bombings, both the authorities and their neighbors sought Friday to understand how ordinary communities spawned a terrifying plot.

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I'm puzzled why Britain is puzzled. What's the shock anyway? Did they not expect British Muslims to follow Islam and kill non-Muslims ? Are the Israeli's puzzled when Arab Muslims that live in Israel turn themselves into human bombs and kill Jews ? NO.

Do the British really believe that just because Muslims were born in Britain they won't become terrorists? If that is their mindset, they are in for a VERY RUDE AWAKENING.

"both the authorities and their neighbors sought Friday to understand how ordinary communities spawned a terrifying plot."

ISLAM, IS THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION.


Photo: A British police officer, second right, stands by as Muslim men attend Friday prayers at a mosque in the Walthamstow area of north east London, near where a number of homes were raided by police, Friday Aug. 11, 2006. British authorities on Friday named 19 of the suspects being held in connection with a plot to blow up U.S.-bound commercial jets and ordered their assets frozen, and Pakistan announced five new arrests. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)