RACHEL ZOLL, AP Religion Writer
A study released Wednesday of American Muslims and homegrown terror found that most of the publicly known cases since the Sept. 11 attacks involved young men who were U.S.-born or naturalized citizens. More than half of the suspects were radicalized as part of a group.
The analysis by researchers from Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found the accused were almost evenly divided in terms of ethnicity.
Although Arabs formed the largest group of suspects, their numbers were only slightly higher than African-Americans, South Asians, Somalis and whites. About a third were converts to Islam.
The statistics were part of a report, “Anti-Terror Lessons of Muslim-Americans,” that aimed to learn why American Muslims seem less prone to extremism than Muslims in Europe and elsewhere.