French domestic intelligence targets Islamic converts

January 6th, 2006 at 19:05 Björn Hallberg

Because apparently they’re dangerous. Terrorism experts note that they “have added operational benefits in very tight security situations” without pondering the credibility or likelihood of the threat, just moving right along to the next “logical” conclusion.

CSM - Mary Fallot looks as unlike a terrorist suspect as one could possibly imagine: a petite and demure white Frenchwoman chatting with friends on a cell-phone, indistinguishable from any other young woman in the café where she sits sipping coffee.

And that is exactly why European antiterrorist authorities have their eyes on thousands like her across the continent.

Ms. Fallot is a recent convert to Islam. In the eyes of the police, that makes her potentially dangerous.

In all likelihood, anyone who of his or her own free will adopts a religion as an adult is a danger. To civil society. But not because they’ll blow someone up. Get real. And stop peddling that far-fetched Muriel Degauque story. It’s a one in a million that for all that we know was set up as a psyop. One also shouldn’t discount the fact that there are a lot of crazy people out there. People who don’t really need religion, but use it as a vessel, and should, like Degauque, been cared for better by society, but simply were not. Disappointment with life creates these situations, not religion per se. Granted of course, Degauque’s predicted fate would have most likely been an overdose or jumping from a bridge, had she not been given the opportunity to lash out at the world in this more active sense.

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