MOST Western Muslims linked to home-grown terrorist plots live unexceptional lives until a crisis opens them to becoming radicalised, a New York Police Department report has found.
The city's police commissioner, Ray Kelly, said that it was the ordinariness of the radicalised Muslims examined in the report that was most striking.
"They don't stand out because they are particularly radical in their youth. They are very ordinary people that somehow become radicalised," Mr Kelly told CNN, referring to the report on 11 plots, including Australia's Operation Pendennis.
Radicalisation often started with people who were frustrated with their lives or with the politics of their home government. The trigger that led to radicalisation could be the loss of a job, perceived discrimination, the plight of Muslims overseas or a personal loss such as a death in the family, he said. Read more
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