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Urban Islam and the war on terror: Amidst media sensationalism over the capture of American-born jihadis, few are examining why urban youth of color increasingly gravitate toward Islam. (To the Point).
Since the capture of the six Washington men accused of engaging in weapons training to join Al Qaeda and would-be terrorist Jose Padilla, a Brooklyn-born Puerto Rican ex-gang member who encountered Islam while in prison, terrorism experts and columnists have been warning of the "Islamic threat" in the American underclass, and alerting the public that the ghetto and the prison system could very well provide a fifth column for Osama bin Laden and his ilk. Writing in The Daily News, black social critic Stanley Crouch reminded us that in 1986, the powerful Chicago street gang al-Rukn--known in the 1970s as the Blackstone Rangers--was arrested en masse for receiving $2.5 ...
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