Originally I thought you were talking about gitmo detainees. Malkin cites the NYpost in other related blog entries. At least someone is reporting it... Of course reporting it will catch attention of all the crazies. I suspect the idiot making gestures was more mentally unstable than terrorist covert operative.
When this does happen with the gitmo detainees, I think they will have a screening process for spectators.
All they need is one jihadi who has a clean record and cleans up well to take a gander/photo of the jury.
Then, a number out & about in jury parking to eyeball them getting into their auto (note make, model, plate), and then follow some of them home, torture them & their family to death, and be sure the news media gets wind of it.
Not too difficult, as crime organizations have done similar things.
Disclaimer:
This is about as bleeding heart as I get. I also do not intend to victimize or sympathisize withl them.
I think it is much easier to recruit people who are completely uneducated/illiterate. The only information some of those misguided fools got came from their local religious leader. Some may not have been quite as insane as the MIT woman.
Seriously, the woman on trial is either completely nuts or brainwashed. Perhaps both.
Your suspicion is not borne out by the facts. Take a random sampling of jihadis who actually did the deed or were caught planning the deed and you will find they are usually well-educated & western-educated.
The "Arab Street" or any individual representative of it has been shown to shout alot and go home. Thye have not proved to be any threat, so far.
The ones you gotta look out for are the foreign students, the immigrants and the immigrants' children. Goatherders have shown neither the means nor the desire to wage jihad against the West.
The woman is neither nuts nor brainwashed. She is fulfilling the requirements of her religion (orhtodox Islam) and has been trained how to manipulate the civilian court system. In Arkansas, welfare mothers direct their progeny to act out in a crazy fashion so they will get a "crazy check" on top of their welfare. These jihadis are at least as intelligent as welfare leeches and it does not surprise me she is able to make a mockery of the civvie justice system.