Internet like a mosque, or maybe a bookstore

NEW YORK (AP) -- Average citizens who quietly band together and adopt radical ways -- not just established overseas terrorist groups like al-Qaida -- pose a serious threat to American security, a new police analysis has concluded.

The New York Police Department report, to be released later today, describes a radicalization process in which young Muslim immigrants, frustrated with their lives in their adopted country, slowly adopt a philosophy that puts them on the path to jihad. The men meet and share ideas not only in mosques, but in bookstores and over the Internet, it says.

(NYPD warns of homegrown terrorism - Morris County (NJ) Daily Record)