homegrown

• “China is calling for the international community to help fight what it calls a homegrown terrorist problem in mostly Muslim Xinjiang.”

  Voice of America: China Seeks Outside Help Against Uighur Separatists

• “But to then think that somebody in Canada or in the United States, or what we call the homegrown terrorist, can actually grow up amongst us, and is one of us, is a citizen of our country, and actually buy into this perverted ideology and attack us is something that we just -- we're still trying to grapple with it.”

  CNN Transcript Dec 12, 2009

• “Janet Napolitano says America needs to watch for what she calls homegrown, radicalized extremism.”

  CNN Transcript Jul 29, 2009

• “PHELPS: And we have certainly had a-- first of all, black Catholics include not just what I call a homegrown African-American, but it includes the immigration of Africans from the continent, immigrations from the Caribbean and Latin America.”

  CNN Transcript Apr 18, 2008

• “Kennedy began his crusades against what he called "homegrown racial terrorists" during World War II after he was deemed unworthy for military service because of a back injury.”

  SFGate: Top News Stories

• “3 HOMEGROWN TERRORISM—The term homegrown terrorism means the use, planned use, or threatened use, of force or violence by a group or individual born, raised, or based and operating primarily within the United States or any possession of the United States to intimidate or coerce the United States government, the civilian population of the United States, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.”

  Sauce for the goose

• “At a recent Senate hearing, Michael Leiter, head of the National Counterterrorism Center, said the United States was experiencing a "spike in homegrown violent extremist activity," some of it involving individuals who were radicalized over the Internet.”

  The Washington Post: Feds arrest N.Va. man in D.C. Metro bomb plot

• “We see an America where we invest in homegrown innovation and ingenuity, where we export more goods so we create more jobs here at home, where we make it easier to start a business or patent an invention.”

  The Washington Post: Obama rallies thousands for freshman Perriello

• “Would you call homegrown militias mounting a defense "patriots" or would you call them "terrorists"?”

  The Huffington Post: David Sirota: The Predictable and Inevitable Blowback

• “I don't think, again, we can be definitive about whether this is a plot that was directed from Al Qaida central, so to speak, or whether it reflects what we sometimes call homegrown terrorism.”

  CNN Transcript Jul 1, 2007

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