America Following France's Demographic Path to Terror

 

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Terrorism: We are repeating the mistakes of France and other European countries by expanding our Muslim immigration. The Boston Marathon bombings were just a foretaste of the likely consequences of this error.

Dearborn, Mich., is about 40% Muslim. That is just one of the eye-opening statistics National Review's Ian Tuttle cites in an article this week on the growth of the U.S. Islamic population, a report as sober as it is chilling.

Would only a bigoted Islamophobe be disturbed upon hearing that stat?  Maybe, but a secret 2013 National Counterterrorism Center document, revealed by the online publication The Intercept, found Dearborn second only to New York in known or suspected terrorists and their associates.

There were 2.75 million Muslims in the U.S. in 2011, according to the Pew Research Center, 1.7 million of whom were legal. But, Tuttle notes, the Council on American-Islamic Relations estimates about 7 million Muslim Americans.

That's a big difference, but there is no arguing with Tuttle that "as the Muslim population in the country has expanded, so has the incidence of radicalism."

When it comes to the non-assimilating generations of many of these newer immigrants, the famous American "melting pot" too often becomes a pressure cooker. The latter was the weapon of choice in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings by the Tsarnaev brothers — Soviet refugees radicalized while living in the U.S., possibly at a mosque not far from Harvard.

Tuttle gives further examples, like Abdul Rahman al-Amoudi, imprisoned for seeking the assassination of Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah, and who apparently attended the same radical mosque. Aafia Siddiqui or "Lady al-Qaida," an MIT and Brandeis graduate convicted for trying to kill a U.S. Army captain in Afghanistan, was apparently also an attendee, and was also allegedly plotting a chemical attack on New York City.

A 2011 Pew report on "The Future of the Global Muslim Population" concluded that the U.S. Muslim population will more than double in 20 years, hitting "about 6.2 million in 2030, in large part because of immigration and higher-than-average fertility among Muslims."

Fifteen years from now, America will "have a larger number of Muslims than any European country" except for Russia and France. The concern is that future generations of this group will radicalize, with catastrophic results like those seen in Paris last week.

Those French terrorists grew up in Paris suburbs. Will we let America's suburbs, cities and other communities become similar incubators of death?