Troubling Roots by Stephen Schwartz

"ONE OF the most disturbing aspects of the JFK terror plot is its Caribbean roots.
The four men named in the case don't come from the Middle East or any other majority-Muslim area. Rather, they are products of Muslim minorities in the Caribbean: one lived in Trinidad, an island off the coast of Venezuela that was the alleged center for their planning; three are from Guyana, on the mainland nearby.

Guyana and Trinidad each have around a million people. By official estimates, Trinidad's Muslim population is 6 percent; Guyana's, 10 percent. Both are poor, unstable societies outside the mainstream of countries with Muslim minorities. The whole region is known for strange combinations of radical politics and radical religion--most famously, the Rastafarians."

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