By Debbie Schlussel
We’re constantly told that Muslims in America are more “moderate” than in Europe and the Middle East, that they’re different because they become citizens–“part of our society,” we’re told–and have opportunity here and the Muslims elsewhere are impoverished and outcasts.
That’s all bunk, of course, as we well know. Plenty of Muslims there who become terrorists are wealthy, educated people who aren’t disenfranchised in the least. And the Muslims in America are no less extremist. There’s no moderation in them.
And here’s yet another example of the latter . . . a moderate, educated Muslim U.S. citizen

A U.S. court on Wednesday convicted a naturalized American citizen who made videos of U.S. landmarks of conspiring to provide material support to terrorism.

It’s Not About Geography or Opportunity . . .

A federal judge in Atlanta convicted Syed Haris Ahmed, 24, a former mechanical engineering student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Justice said.
Ahmed was arrested in March 2006 after making video recordings of Washington landmarks that wound up on the computers of two men later convicted of terrorism charges in the United Kingdom.
Prosecutors said Ahmed, whose parents emigrated from Pakistan, recruited other men to go with him to join a terrorist training facility in Pakistan in 2005.
Ahmed, who could face up to 15 years in prison, pleaded not guilty to the charges. His lawyer said he was an impressionable student who fell prey to extremist Web sites but never acted on any of his plans, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper.

Yes, that’s only because he was caught in time.

Ahmed is expected to be sentenced in August.

Let’s hope they throw the book at him, but expect that they won’t. After all, this is Hussein Obama’s America, with the pan-Muslim skids pre-greased by Bush.