From out of no where an American Jihadist is born
Colleen Renee LaRose of Pennsburg, Pennsylvania, in the mind of most terrorist watchers, does not fit the immediate profile for angry Muslim Jihadists.
Colleen LaRose, a 46 year old blond blue-eyed woman of fair complexion, is scheduled for arraignment next week in federal court in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, accused of conspiring to support Islamic extremists and plotting to assassinate a Swedish artist.
Arrested October 16, 2009 after landing at the Philadelphia International Airport from a flight from the Netherlands, LaRose who has been held by the feds since her arrest has become a focal point of international news when her indictment on Tuesday was unsealed by authorities.
Federal authorities say LaRose who had previously converted to Islam and became a militant Jihadist, flew to Europe on August 23, 2009 with the intent to live and train with Muslim jihadists in a plot to find and kill Swedish artist Lars Vilks, whose 2007 portrait of the prophet Muhammad as a dog angered many Muslims.
Not the brightest of Jihadists
Apparently in terms of secrecy and cover, Colleen LaRose is not the “sharpest pencil in the box”. As an internet vixen, her alter-ego, “Jihad Jane” openly and angrily called for Muslims worldwide to rise in “Holy War” against the United States and the West. It was her fanatical and hate filled speech that caught the attention of U.S. law officials as a person of interest to watch.
To friends and neighbors that knew LaRose, her transformation into an anti-American, anti-Western wanna-be terrorist comes as a complete surprise and an utter shock. According to those that know her, she is a polite yet eccentric woman who was known to talk loudly to her cats and on occasion drown her sorrows by “hitting the bottle” hard.
Police records indicate that Colleen LaRose has a history of misdemeanor violations beginning with a charge of criminal trespass in 1985, a charge of drunken-driving in 1997 and that same year she was arrested for passing four bad checks that totaled to $390.71. Not exactly the spy and terrorist “material” written about in John Grisham novels. Or is it? Al Qaeda is actively recruiting “non traditional looking Arabs" who are sympathetic to their cause to infiltrate Western towns and cities in hope of using their “disguise” as a means of unleashing terrorist attacks on an unsuspecting public.
A personal story worthy of a beer, a Marlboro cigarette and a Loretta Lynn tune
In 1980 at the age of sixteen, Colleen LaRose married a man in Fort Worth, Texas twice her age. The marriage which was reportedly physically and mentally abusive did not last long. Eight years later, Colleen was back at the altar to wed Rodolfo Cavazos, a marriage that lasted almost ten years before finally ending in divorce. While married to LaRose, Rodolfo Cavazos earned a living by gambling in card games. Colleen, caught in a life of mounting bills, little money an unstable second marriage and an addiction to alcohol became a person living on the edge of personal destruction. It has been speculated that it was during these hard times that the Islamic faith was introduced to LaRose.
On May 21, 2005, LaRose haunted by what appears to be a sad and hard life began drinking heavily. Depressed over her father’s recent death, LaRose in an attempt to take her life, swallowed eight to 10 prescription muscle relaxers. Failing to kill herself, Colleen LaRose was now at a crossroads in her life. After months of receiving counseling for depression and alcoholism, LaRose apparently found spiritual rebirth in the form of Islam. Unfortunately, the brand of Islam that gave her purpose to live was a brand that advocated death to America, the West and Israel.
Police in the Netherlands are currently rounding up suspects that were involved with LaRose in their plot to assassinate Swedish artist Lars Vilks. As more information in the investigation is released updates to the story will be posted.
As always Louisianans, the New Orleans Examiner.Com is interested in what you think. Are the feds and local law officials just looking at the “tip” of the iceberg as related to Americans who are defining themselves as secret Jihadists? Should the current profile of Islamist terrorist be re-evaluated? Inquiring minds want to know. Sound off.
Until next time Louisianans, Good Day, God Bless and Good Fishing.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0312/Jihad-Jane-joins-growing-list-of-American-terror-suspects
Comments
Sounds like another useful idiot.
Sounds like another load of crap to scare the american people.
Oh wait, this must be the story they plan on using to get everyone to comply with the new naked airport body scanners!
Moral of the story is; if you're an alcoholic don't turn to terrorism. Blows their cover.
High 5 Mary! You nailed it. They're trying to keep up the fear hysteria started during 911.
More and more control over Decent Americans in the name of "Security".
If I looked like that, I'd want to wear a niqab too! 24/7!!
Mary: you got that right!! Its not like she was trying to hide what she was doing. It was on her myspace page for gods sake!!!!
ofcourse, she doesn't fit the norm of what America thinks a "terrorist" looks like because America's view is stereotypical and rather ignorant of what a terrorist is or should look like. If the media and government weren't so busy stereotyping people and looking only at certain names then our national security would be a lot better. It personally enrages me to see people like LaRose take something like Islam and twist it for the use of murder. It literally disturbs me.
She is the perfect tool to create a new terrorist image. When terrorists may look like she does then we all could be potential terrorists. Especially in the wake of the pentagon shooter. Now we all look like terrorists. We are now entering the Orwellian police state that the "conspiracy theorists" have been talking about for years. Is it still a theory when it's all true? I don't think so. Maybe it's time to call it like we see it... "The Truth".
This chick should be sunnng out on a beach.. not trying to fry a cartoonist.
lock the freak up
mary your an idiot
Why, if no true Muslim would be a violent extremist, are so many violent extremists Muslims? To find out, you need to study Islam's history going back 1400 years to see how its mindset arose and spread. Master all the key facts online free with the Historyscoper and see how deep the rabbit hole goes at.. go.to/islamhistory
Actually BOTH views Mary/Ed Wood and Historyscope are correct.
There is a LONG history of Mideast Muslim Hostility towards the West. And NOT just "extremist" islam.....that is a Politically Correct Media Manufactured phrase. America herself has had to deal with this Muslim Hostility since it's beginning. At the Peace talks after our Rev. War. The Consitution class Battleships wwere constructed partailly to Deal with North African Muslim Hostility. There was a hostage incident that Teddy Roosevelt had to deal with. etc etc etc. And we had NO BASES in the mideast at the time AND Israel didn't even exist. Nor did Israel exist when the entire Muslim world at that time invaded Europe in the Middle Ages...remember BEFORE the crusades by centuries.
But there is also a large monied faction within the West that USES the innate muslim HATRED of all that is not muslim to further their agenda of political and finacial control by social fear and unheaval. They use "National Security" to gain.
Are you new "Jihad Conspiracy Theorists" saying that Colleen La Rose didn't do any of this stuff? And if you are making this claim, what is your proof of her innocence? Are you also saying that there is no extreme islam adherents here in the US? If so, what's your explanation for Adam Gadahn?
And what benefit would a woman have within the AQ organization? Did she think they were going to make her an executive director? Their track record with women doesn't even have a glass ceiling!
We're not saying get paranoid and trust no one. But we are pointing out that these factions do and have exist. So you take care with information you're giving out, especially if you're privvy to civic or military information. You never know how it will be used. It's as simple as that. But yeah, you can still have a kumbaya moment. As many as you like.
I loves me some Islamic apologists!
Bushido....the "New Samurai" as during turn of the Century Japan.Real Bushido's were committed AND smart O poet.
It's pretty clear what folks are saying: Yes Jihad Jane is for real, Yes Al Qaida is real and dangerous...as is ALL muslim ideology that implicitly CONDONES these terrorist actions.
But what is also true is that The Powers That Be..The NeoCon's (The US version of TPTB)have been USING this homegrown and foreign terror organizations to get their agedas passed. Such as the Patriot Act etc... it's not Brain Surgery Bushido.
And our President just recently extended the Patriot act.... So much for your knee jerk "Neo-con theory".
Idiot
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