I've already noted before that terrorism tends to attract losers. As with all other forms of crime, it attracts people who want to fake a sense of being powerful and important by imposing a reign of terror on others.
At best, terrorist organizations recruit alienated middle-class engineering students who can't stand feeling like losers because of the conflict between their traditional Muslim upbringing and the vibrant Western culture they encounter during their education. More typically, though, the terrorists get uneducated street urchins who have nowhere else to go, or aspiring armed robbers looking for weapons and training—the motive confessed to by one of the Mumbai killers.
Occasionally, we're also going to see them pick someone up from among the losers in the prisons, public housing projects, and trailer parks of America and Europe. That seems to be the case for "Jihad Jane"—her own self-styled titled—who was recently arrested for participating in a plot to murder a European cartoonist who defied the Islamic prohibition on depictions of Mohammed.
From what is known so far about Jihad Jane, she fits the terrorist profile: a life-long loser whose biography reads "like a country-western song," as one investigator put it.
By the way, Sweden's newspapers earn an entry on the Anti-Dhimmitude Roll of Honor for responding to the murder plot by reprinting Lars Vilks's cartoon so that "Vilks doesn't stand alone in this conflict."
"Jihad Jane: American Blonde Accused of Terror Plot," Philippe Naughton, London Times , March 10
A blonde American woman who went under the online alias "Jihad Jane" has been accused of plotting to murder a Swedish cartoonist for drawing a picture of the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog, it emerged today.
Colleen LaRose, a 46-year-old Muslim convert from Pennsylvania, was said by prosecutors to have used the internet to make contact with jihadists overseas and was persuaded to use the fact that she was a white American to get through security surrounding the artist, Lars Vilks.
A US Justice Department official said last night that the case "shatters any lingering thought that we can spot a terrorist based on appearance."…
Three Swedish papers reprinted his image today in a gesture of solidarity. One, Dagens Nyheter said in an editorial that "Vilks doesn't stand alone in this conflict. A threat against him is, in the long term, also a threat against all Swedes."…
The indictment says that Ms. LaRose posted a YouTube video as JihadJane in June 2008 saying she was "desperate to do something somehow to help" Muslims.
Within months, she was in contact with jihadists in Europe and Asia and agreed to marry a South Asian man to get him into Europe.
Robert Tracinski writes daily commentary at TIADaily.com. He is the editor of "The Intellectual Activist (TIA)" and contributor to "The Freedom Fighter's Journal"
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