Whistleblower Magazine (formerly WorldNet)   

December 2002 – TERRORISTS AMONG US: Recruiting, fundraising and plotting holy war in the 'land of the free'

Despite America's 9-11 wake-up call, international terrorists – from al-Qaida and Hamas to sleeper cells and "freelancer" jihadists, bent on inflicting maximum horror and destruction on Americans – continue to infiltrate this nation, and the U.S. government has been unable or unwilling to effectively combat the threat

As expert Mideast analyst Daniel Pipes notes in this explosive issue of Whistleblower: "A virtual taboo exists in official circles about Islam's role in the violence; in the words of one senior State Department official, this subject 'has to be tiptoed around.' As a result, the violence is treated as though it comes out of nowhere, the work of (in Bush's description) 'a bunch of cold-blooded killers.'"

The problem, adds Pipes, is that without truly confronting the enemy that has declared war on America, the all-important goal of defeating the ideology of radical Islamism – which is currently growing like a virus worldwide – will not be addressed effectively. Similarly, without a forthright policy of identifying and explaining what radical Islamism is – and differentiating it from Islam's more moderate forms – terrorism's supporters, funders, apologists and lobbyists go on working unnoticed and unfettered