Islamist Jihad and Christian Fundamentalism are mirror images.
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In the United States, merely attempting to join a terrorist group is a crime. The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested and charged Mohammed Hamzah Khan at O'Hare International Airport earlier this month, saying he planned to travel to Syria to fight for the Islamic State. Andrew Grossman in The Wall Street Journal.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper calls the incident a "terrorist" act. A soldier is dead as well as the suspect, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, a Canadian known to authorities who had recently seized his passport. Josh Wingrove, Steven Chase, Bill Curry and Jill Mahoney in The Globe and Mail.
A Canadian convert to violent Islam ran down and killed a soldier with his car on Monday. Martin Couture-Rouleau, a young father and the owner of a small business, wanted to become a jihadi. Like Zehaf-Bibeau, he had had his passport seized. Police fatally shot him after a chase. Ingrid Peritz, Tu Thanh Ha and Les Perreaux in The Globe and Mail.
Authorities had taken his passport, but they didn't have evidence of a crime. Couture-Rouleau was not "a candidate for a viable prosecution" and was let go, though police were trying to monitor him. Colin Freeze in The Globe and Mail.
Terrorists returning from abroad aren't a major threat in the United States. "We're going to know who these guys are, and we're going to watch them closely as they transit home," one expert said. Zack Beauchamp in Vox.
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