{"id":545,"date":"2009-12-15T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/cityofbrass\/2009\/12\/discussing-homegrown-muslim-ex.html"},"modified":"2009-12-15T12:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T12:40:00","slug":"discussing-homegrown-muslim-ex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/2009\/12\/discussing-homegrown-muslim-ex.html","title":{"rendered":"Discussing &#8220;homegrown muslim extremism&#8221; on NPR today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been invited to discuss the recent story about Pakistani-Americans traveling to Pakistan to fight alongside the Taliban, and the general issue of whether domestic &#8220;home-grown&#8221; terrorism is an issue, on NPR Los Angeles&#8217; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcrw.com\/news\/programs\/tp\/tp091215homegrown_terrorism\">To the Point<\/a>&#8221; this afternoon (hosted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcrw.com\/people\/news\/programs\/tp\/olney_warren?role=news_host\">Warren Olney<\/a>). Tune in to KCRW Los Angeles (streaming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcrw.com\/\">online here<\/a>) from 2:10 &#8211; 2:45pm EST !<\/p>\n<p>I hope I dont make a fool of myself. More than usual, that is \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcrw.com\/news\/programs\/tp\/tp091215home-based_terrorism\">segment at KCRW&#8217;s website<\/a>, including links to <a href=\"http:\/\/download.kcrw.com\/audio\/213281\/tp_2009-12-15-171120.mp3\">download the MP3<\/a>. I was disappointed I didn&#8217;t get to interact directly with Spencer Ackerman, who I&#8217;ve been a huge fan of ever since his Iraq&#8217;d column at TNR during the Bush years. His recent piece arguing that <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/70710\/security-experts-claim-administration-overstates-domestic-al-qaeda-threat\">the ObamAdmin overstates the domestic terrorism threat<\/a> was part of the debate and really worth reading. Also, I really thought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/people\/j\/jenkins_brian_michael.html\">Brian Jenkins<\/a> of RAND Corp did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rand.org\/pubs\/testimonies\/CT336\/\">a great job refuting<\/a> the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/world\/report_jihadis-have-taken-root-in-the-us_1323082-all\">nonsense<\/a> from Walid Phares.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been invited to discuss the recent story about Pakistani-Americans traveling to Pakistan to fight alongside the Taliban, and the general issue of whether domestic &#8220;home-grown&#8221; terrorism is an issue, on NPR Los Angeles&#8217; &#8220;To the Point&#8221; this afternoon (hosted by Warren Olney). Tune in to KCRW Los Angeles (streaming online here) from 2:10 &#8211;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[25,26,236,71],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamerica","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-radio","tag-terrorism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Discussing &quot;homegrown muslim extremism&quot; on NPR today - City of Brass<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Discussing &quot;homegrown muslim extremism&quot; on NPR today - City of Brass\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#8217;ve been invited to discuss the recent story about Pakistani-Americans traveling to Pakistan to fight alongside the Taliban, and the general issue of whether domestic &#8220;home-grown&#8221; terrorism is an issue, on NPR Los Angeles&#8217; &#8220;To the Point&#8221; this afternoon (hosted by Warren Olney). 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