Why ‘Jihadi John’ is so worrying

The revelations Thursday over the identity of “Jihadi John”that he apparently grew up and was educated in Britain, and that he has a degree in computing from Westminster University in Londonhave left us with some profoundly troubling issues.

It appears clear that security authorities have known for some time who he is, but kept this fact hidden, either, one assumes, because they were attempting to capture him or because they were trying to protect his family from vigilantes. Whatever the reason, the fact that he had the benefit of higher education (and had picked up state of the art IT skills) once again highlights how our education system fails to protect either us, the citizens of a free country, or the students themselves from the violent horrors of Islamism.

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