On Friday a 19-year old man attempted to detonate a bomb in a crowd that had gathered for the annual Christmas tree lighting in Portland, Oregon.   It is depressingly predictable that he was a another young Muslim male terrorist, a Somali named Mohamed Osman Mohamud..It is also depressingly predictable that a section of the commentariat refuses to see any pattern here.  As Derrick Jackson explains in last week's Boston Globe column, Safer Skies? Bring on the Scanners: [T]hose today who are not willing to be scanned or complain about pat-downs, are in a fantasy world of personal entitlement. Call it the "Do-I-look-like-a-terrorist?'' syndrome. It has somehow escaped the critics that you cannot judge a terrorist by last name, skin color, or gender.Who's in the fantasy world here?  Only the willfully blind can ignore that nearly every terror threat in the last forty years has come from young males with names like Mohammad Massalha (Munich massacre), Abdelbaset...(Read Full Post)