Date Posted: December 20, 2009
Did ‘Jihadi cool’ lure 5 Americans to Pakistan?
By MARTHA IRVINE and NAFEESA SYEED (AP)
That’s particularly scary to some Muslims, including Arsalan Iftikhar, an international human rights lawyer and commentator in Washington, D.C., who often writes about Muslim issues on his Web site. He’s among those calling for more moderate Muslim groups to fight, or at least counter, terrorist postings on the Internet.
“These guys are essentially brainwashed pawns of terrorist propaganda,” he says of the five young men.
And he, too, is angry at them.
“These are wannabe thugs who are real-world idiots.”
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