There's A Muslim Insurgency Inside America And We Have To Fight Like There's One

Jihad: The U.S. faces a growing internal threat not from "domestic terrorists" or "lone wolves," but from armed Muslim insurgents directed by a well-funded overseas command and aided locally by a well-organized network.

24 year old Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez

Before this Islamic insurgency gains even more strength within our borders, we have to treat it as such. We need a counter-insurgency involving action from both military and police authorities. We have to confront the ugly truth that many of our own Muslims are at war with us.

Thursday's deadly attack on two military sites in Chattanooga, Tenn., by a homegrown 24-year-old Muslim likely inspired by the Islamic State was no isolated event.

In April, two men purportedly plotted to detonate a bomb at Fort Riley, Kan., to aid the IS. In March, a pair of Chicago Muslims allegedly hatched a plot to attack an Illinois military base on behalf of the IS. Homegrown jihadists also want to kill civilians. Here are some troubling facts:

• The FBI this year alone has arrested or killed 52 inside the U.S. who are suspected of being Islamic State fighters, including 10 believed to have plotted to kill fellow Americans on the Fourth.

• The FBI director says he's got hundreds of investigations open on IS suspects in 49 states.

• At least 180 American Muslims have traveled or attempted to travel to Syria to join IS.

• IS is giving orders to Muslim Americans to conduct insider attacks through more than 21,000 English-language Twitter accounts.

The tempo of domestic threats is too much for the FBI to handle. "We are stopping these things so far through tremendous hard work," bureau chief James Comey testified earlier this month, "but I cannot see me stopping these indefinitely."

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