ANOTHER ONE – AT 7:39 P.M. ET:  Another one.  There are more and more identifications of native-born Americans who are suspected of involvement with radical Islamic groups.  And they don't look like terrorists.  From The New York Times:

LEADVILLE, Colo. — An American woman, who family members fear may have become a radicalized Muslim, was detained in Ireland this week in connection with a plot to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist. The Associated Press reported Saturday that the Irish police had released the woman without charge.

The woman, identified by her mother as Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, 31, had become increasingly cut off from her family here and had been spending more time on the Internet since converting to Islam around last Easter, her relatives said.

After dressing in traditional headscarves, praying at a mosque in Denver and befriending fellow Muslims in online chat rooms, Ms. Pauline-Rarimez left Leadville in September with her 5-year-old son, Christian Carreon and moved to Ireland in October, her mother, Christine Mott, said in an interview at her home here on Saturday.

Ms. Mott said that she had been told that her daughter had been detained in Ireland this week, and that her grandson was in the custody of Irish officials.

The Wall Street Journal first reported the arrest of Ms. Paulin-Ramirez on Friday. The newspaper, citing unidentified sources, reported that she was arrested in connection with an alleged plot to murder Lars Vilks, whose 2007 cartoon depicted the head of the Prophet Muhammad on a dog’s body.

COMMENT:  She may or may not be guilty of anything.  However, what strikes me is the false sense of astonishment that any native-born American could possibly be engaged in treasonable activities. 

In fact, while it isn't common, it's hardly unknown.  There were plenty of Nazi sympathizers in America before World War II (and probably afterward, as well).  There was a very large pro-Soviet Communist movement in America, although many members of the MSM have been taught in colleges that this was something of a mirage, an example of "McCarthyism."  It was not a mirage.  McCarthy was a crude guy, but he wasn't entirely wrong. 

But now the prissies in the media are shocked, shocked, that any American, especially someone with nice hair, would join the jihadists. 

Don't be shocked. 

March 13, 2010