as always, Steven, spot-on
Reader comment on item: The Growing Threat from Female Suicide Bombers

Submitted by Abigail Esman, Mar 30, 2010 01:27

What many also are forgetting are the women from the West who are also being recruited - such as Muriel Degaques, the Belgian woman who blew herself up in 2005. Women are especially likely to convert to Islam these days, as noted in a British report, and new converts are especially vulnerable to recruiters from Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups. New York's efforts to search backpacks on the subways brought on a slew of complaints, but the fact is that the failure to do so would only bring on more protest in the event of an attack -- and there will be one. And still, most European countries refuse to ban the burqa.

When will the public understand?

Abigail R. Esman

Writer/Editor

www.abigailesman.com

Coming soon from Praeger:

RADICAL STATE: How Jihad Is Winning Over Democracy In The West

http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/C34847.aspx

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