(The Center Square) - Nearly every week an individual is arrested, indicted or convicted in the U.S. on terrorism charges related to supporting the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, a designated foreign terrorist organization.
Nearly everyone prosecuted is Islamic. Nearly all are young men.
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