Living in America, we have the freedom to practice whatever faith we choose, but at the same time, that does not give us the right to violate our laws or organize, to finance or develop a group whose motivations are to attack and destroy the country of which they claim to be citizens, while practicing that faith or religion. We are now in the midst of a movement in which domestic American jihad will bring about the destruction of the United States. In the United States we have Americans waiting and wanting to destroy everything that has to do with our country and our Western way of operating. life, all in the name of “jihad” or holy war. In the past year alone and nearly ten years after September 11, 2001, there has been a surge in jihadist recruitment and incidents in the United States. This appears to be a call to all local jihadist sympathizers who have been waiting to spring into action. According to a report by the RAND Corporation, “46 cases of radicalization and recruitment for jihadist terrorism were reported in the United States between September 11 and the end of 2009” (Jenkins). Young men and women are accused of wanting to harm innocent American citizens and destroy the United States, all by proclaiming themselves Islamic soldiers and dying as martyrs for Islam. Faisal Shahzad, the Times Square bomber in Connecticut who pleaded guilty on June 21, told a judge: "I am part of the response to the United States terrorizing Muslim nations and Muslim people , and in the name of this, I 'Avenge the attacks' (Scherer). The United States remains al-Qaeda's main target and is under pressure to demonstrate that it is capable of attacking them again in order to maintain its credibility as a front and center in the conflict. article......ls/story?id=11699198>.Scherer, Ron. "Terrorism Cases Force More Muslim Americans to Fight Homegrown Jihad - CSMonitor.com." July 7, 2010. Web October 4, 2010., Marc. "The Journal of International Security Affairs The Normalcy of Global Jihadist Terrorism 2005th ser. Spring.9 (2005). .United States v. Colleen R. LaRose, Grand Jury Indictment in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, filed March 4, 2010, WebWhite Supremacist Recruitment of Military Personnel Since 9/11" Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) ) Cryptome.org July 7, 2008. Web....