Andre Poulin, 24, of Ontario, Canada, died last year while fighting for the Islamic State in Syria. (Image: Youtube) American intelligence agencies say there is no evidence that the Islamic State – which has yet to attack targets outside the Middle East – is plotting to hit the US, yet 71 percent of those polled by CNN last month said they believed the militant group had active terror cells within our borders. That disconnect results from the threat inflation that’s so deeply embedded in our discourse about terrorism. So we should take sensational media reports and the dire warnings...
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