Homegrown Muslim terror threat ‘tiny,’ report says
The threat of homegrown Islamic terrorism is "tiny" and often
exaggerated by government officials, a leading antiterrorism expert
said in a recent report.
Charles Kurzman, a sociologist at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a researcher at the
Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security, said 20 Muslim
Americans were indicted for violent terrorist plots last year, down from
26 in 2010.
Kurzman's report, "Muslim-American Terrorism in the
Decade Since 9/11," said that compared to the 14,000 murders in the U.S.
last year, the potential for Muslim Americans to take up terrorism is
"tiny." In the ten years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, 193 Muslim
Americans have been indicted in terrorist plots, or fewer than 20 per
year, Kurzman said in the report.
