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...only the sons of prosperous immigrants who were being attracted to terrorism. Two of those arrested for their suspected role in the Heathrow bomb plot were Muslim converts. One of them was the son of a deceased Conservative Party employee with an impeccably British double-barreled surname, Stewart-Whyte...
...Islam? The three British converts arrested two weeks ago have three things in common: all are men, all are described by people who know them as friendly, regular guys, and all are in their 20s. But the similarities pretty much end there. According to accounts from friends, Don Stewart-Whyte, who changed his name to Abdul Waheed, converted six months ago, giving up drugs and alcohol. He grew a beard, shaved his head and started wearing traditional Islamic dress. Friends say Brian Young, who is of West Indian descent, was troubled by the decadence of Western society. Oliver Savant...
...name Don Stewart-Whyte is an unlikely fit with any racial-profiler's description of your typical Qaeda-inspired terror suspect. Yet, Stewart-Whyte, aka Abdul Waheed, who is believed to be either 19 or 21 and to have converted to Islam within the past year after what some neighbors describe as a troubled adolescence, has been reported by the British media as one of the 24 people arrested in connection with a plot to blow up U.S.-bound airliners. Nor was he the only convert among the named suspects. Among those on a list of 19 suspects named...
...three converts are part of a group of mostly British-born Muslims of Pakistani or Kashmiri origin. The details divulged by the Bank were sparse, of course, leaving the British media racing to fill out the picture. Neighbors told the Guardian how Stewart-Whyte, who lived with his widowed mother, changed after converting to Islam a year ago. "He grew a long beard and had shaved his head," said one. "The people he was hanging around with were different. Now he's with people who are religious. He doesn't speak to anyone around here since his conversion." Other neighbors...
...respond to concerns that surfaced during a survey completed by 244 members of Harvard’s junior faculty this fall. In the survey, junior faculty said that childcare was one of the areas where Harvard’s practices were least effective. Professor of Sociology Martin K. Whyte, who teaches a course called Sociology 108, “The Sociology of Work and Family,” said that Harvard’s environment is poorly suited to a parent’s lifestyle. “There’s a whole thing about the institutional culture that...