Al Qaeda Hooking Up With Aryan Nations

Al Qaeda seems to have learned that in order to evade detection in the West, it must adopt some of the qualities of a “virtual network”: a style of organization used by American right-wing extremists for operating in environments (such as the United States) that have effective law enforcement agencies. American antigovernment groups refer to this style as “leaderless resistance.” … Some white supremacists and extremist Christians applaud al Qaeda’s rejectionist goals and may eventually contribute to al Qaeda missions. Already a Swiss neo-Nazi named Albert Huber has called for his followers to join forces with Islamists … The appeal of radical Islam to alienated youth living in the West is perhaps an even more difficult problem to address. Uneasiness with liberal values, discomfort with uncertain identities, and resentment of the privileged are perennial problems in modern societies. What is new today is that radical leaders are using the tools of globalization to construct new, transnational identities based on death cults.