It won’t be long before some commentator pins responsibility for this terror plot on U.S. or British foreign policy or the Iraq war. It’s trendy to argue that U.S. foreign policy is the primary recruitment for Jihadists. Recruitment is a sophisticated process, though. In the case of Britain, given the large South Asian component to British Islam, the recruitment group to watch is Tablighi Jamaat.

About the Author
Michael Rubin is Director of Policy Analysis at the Middle East Forum and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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