Mustafa Abu Maryam, a Muslim youth leader who has known the five arrested men since 2006, said he was alarmed by their decision to go to Pakistan (to study to become Taliban jihadists) after exchanging coded e-mails with a recruiter for the Pakistani Taliban. "I always thought that they had a firm grasp on life and that they rejected extremism or terrorism," Maryam said of the men from Alexandria, Va.
(Question, where and from whom did they learn how to exchange coded e-mails)gs
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Relatives of the five men have declined to speak to reporters.
(loose lips sink might sink their ships)gs
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For some, a new approach cannot come too soon. Zaki Barzinji, 20, a Sterling native and former president of Muslim Youths of North America, said mosques are "sort of in the Stone Age when it comes to outreach.
(truer words were never spoken, not only that, their ideology is stone aged.)gs
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Nor is the threat limited to the Internet, Barzinji said, adding that groups of "traveling Muslim proselytizers" sometimes appear at Virginia Tech, where he is a senior, often attracting foreign students, who tend to be more socially isolated.
They go to the dorms, look for Muslim-sounding names, knock on the door and say, 'Hey, we'd like to talk to you about hellfire and how you're heading that way,' " Barzinji said. "All they're offering is social connection and acceptance."
(Sometimes they show up at polling places for the purpose of intimidating voters but the Barrack Hussein Obama appointed USAG we now have squelches any proposed prosecution because of his political leanings)gs
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Barzinji said Muslim groups should create online forums where young Muslims can find answers from authoritative sources. Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman at the Council on American-Islamic Relations' Washington headquarters, said he spent a recent day at work with a copy of "The Social Media Bible," trying to figure out how to do that.
(How to best deceive the infidel is his motivation)gs
(I got their authoritative souces hanging)gs
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Magid, the imam at the Sterling mosque, said Muslim leaders should be more active on social-networking sites and should create an online network of imams to talk to young people, "even addressing questions about jihad," he said
(Riiiiight, indoctrination is islam's best friend.)gs