Bill Warner offers a trove of information on Samir Khan, whose website is so alluring to certain of the alienated among us as to be labeled “Gateway Drug to Terror,” i.e., it is a preeminent hard-core, English-speaking site touting terrorism. Note his higher-education passage:

According to The New York Times, which interviewed Khan in 2007, he launched his blog in 2005 under the name “Inshallahshaheed,” or “a martyr soon if God wills,” from his parents’ home in Charlotte, N.C. Khan reportedly grew up in … New York, after his parents immigrated to the U.S. from Saudi Arabia. The Times reported he comes from a middle-class family and moved toward an increasingly radical form of Islam while at college in North Carolina. He launched his site while taking classes at a community college and during his off-hours as a knife salesman.

How apt the knife part.