'Jihad Jane,' AKA Colleen LaRose.
Yes, I admit it, I used to chuckle at airports when I was escorted to the wand screening area. After hours on an airplane with a day's beard growth and no access to a razor, I might look sort of terrifying. Inevitably though I would find myself waiting behind 1. A blonde lady and 2. Grandma! I laughed at the extremes of 'politically correct' screening. But I was wrong!
Colleen LaRose looks like an ordinary housewife from the suburbs of Philadelphia. Perhaps she's the descendent of some Continental Army soldier who didn't get paid, but her conversion to Islam and involvement in recruiting Jihadists has her neighbors wondering. I honestly don't see what Islam holds that is so enticing to women, especially AMERICAN women! I guess the veil is more liberating than equality feminism after all.
She was working under orders from militants to go to Sweden and kill a Swedish artist who depicted the Islamic prophet Muhammad as a dog. I guess I'd better not put his face on a groundhog, huh? Still, we live in a world where free nations are repeatedly cast as oppressors and oppressive nations are cast as the victims. Waterboarding, in that world, is more terrible than Saddam Hussein's sons throwing their enemies alive into a plastic shredder.
I guess repeating a lie long enough makes it believable. Ms. LaRose believed it.
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