Momin Khawaja Case Summary

As the threat of homegrown terrorism rises, the need to understand the radicalization process of each specific terrorist is imminent to the process to prevent future terrorist attacks. Various individuals who take part in supporting or acting with terrorist organizations, tend to have been educated and raised from the West. As the Mohammad Momin Khawaja case suggests, it was unlike many others whom followed the radicalization process: pre-radicalization, self-identification, indoctrination and jihadization)1. Rising terrorists “usually” partake in the radicalization process in which the individuals misinterpret the Quran for inciting one must take violent actions against those whom are “kafir”. Khawaja falls under the category of terrorists, who were “nearly impossible to predict [that] will move from espousing ‘radical’ views to committing violent acts…”2. Although the NYPD provided a process at which some terrorist have taken to become a jihadists, not all terrorist follow those steps. The question often asked is “how did these people who seemed moderately well off become terrorist an become motivated to take action?”1. The Khawaja case indicates that not all terrorist follow the four steps to become fully radicalized.
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Although Khawaja identified with some of the characteristics of the self-identification and indoctrination stage, he was experiencing an identity crisis in which prompted him to act violently. There was no personal experience where he was directly affected that pushed him to become a terrorist which the NYPD describes as a step taken. There was no evidence of Khawaja dressing differently or absence for mosques. He did not A lot of what the NYPD described as a developing terrorist does not fit the profile in which Khawaja became