TERROR CONCERN OVER YOUNG MUSLIMS IN EUROPE – AT 8:22 P.M. ET:  Europe's security problem is our security problem.  And it's reaching dangerous levels.  From The New York Times:

FRANKFURT — Before Abi left her parents’ house in northern Germany last year, she asked her father, “Daddy, what can I bring you from my journey?” He looked up from his book and answered, “Some perfumed oil.” “Will do,” she said, hugging him goodbye.

He is still waiting, more than a year later, for her to return.

Abi, now 23, and her husband never made the trip they said they had planned to Saudi Arabia to visit Mecca and Medina. Instead they became part of a growing number of young Muslims from Germany and other European countries who travel to the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region, eventually ending up in the camps of groups affiliated with Al Qaeda or the Taliban.

This is an important story that deserves a full reading.  Infiltration is real.  A small cell in the U.S. and Europe can pull off a major operation, as we've learned painfully.  Get this little bit of weirdness:

Abi has told her mother that Muslims in Afghanistan and Pakistan are oppressed and need help. That reaction is typical for her daughter, who always wanted to help people, Abi’s mother said, adding, “I was always proud of her for this.”

Then tears filled her eyes, as she said: “My husband and I became very weak because of what she has done, and I would like to ask her, ‘Doesn’t the Koran say you should never lie to your parents and have to honor them?’ ”

COMMENT:  The Koran says a lot of things.  This is political Islam, and its followers will interpret the holy book any way it can help their cause.

July 30, 2010