Michael Cutler on Islam's growth south of the border as potential terrorist breeding ground

By Andrew Cochran

Michael Cutler asked me to post the following comments for him:

I received this news article from an old friend, former colleague, and fellow Contributing Expert, Bill West. As you may know, "Der Spiegel," the source for the linked article, is a respected German newspaper.

Several weeks ago I cited the fact that the president of Brazil wanted to establish close diplomatic as well as economic relations with a number of Arab countries, a number of which are associated with various terrorist organizations. This article shows that Mexico is also developing its own significant Muslim faction. What is disturbing is that the most downtrodden of Mexico are the ones who seem to be gravitating to Islam. While many adherents of Islam are peaceful, the truth is that the growth of a large fundamentalist Islamic population may well serve as a fertile group in which to win members over to join al-Qaida. Additionally, members of al-Qaida and other terrorist organizations may find it relatively easy to enter Mexico and hide within these communities in Mexico either in preparation for running the all but nonexistent border between the United States and Mexico or in order to train and direct their new Mexican recruits who may well seek to surreptitiously enter the United States.

Additionally, I was recently in Las Vegas to attend the "Unite to Fight" summit on illegal immigration and experienced the disturbing demonstrations of some 100 individuals who waved Mexican flags and the flags of other Latin American countries. They shouted obscenities at the attendees at the conference and referred to us as Nazis, and racists and screamed at us that we should, "Go home!" They said that we were standing on their territory (Las Vegas) and that they will soon send us back to Europe where we belong! Obviously, I didn't have the opportunity to question any of these folks about their immigration status, but it was clear that they revile Americans. At a previous demonstration, some of the participants turned violent, hurling frozen soda cans into the crowd of United States citizens, injuring an elderly woman who was struck on the head by one of these projectiles.

Our government's policy towards border security (actually a lack of meaningful policy) appears to have emboldened such demonstrators. Some of these demonstrators refer to themselves as members of Aztlan and are of the belief that the southwestern portion of the United States was stolen from their ancestors and they want to reclaim it.

It is worth clicking on a few of the links to various Aztlan websites to appreciate the ideology of these people. You will notice that they express extreme anti-American sentiments and often link their vitriolic rhetoric against the United States with similar statements against Israel. They are, in fact, aligning themselves with the Palestinians and this again shows the potential that al-Qaida may be able to capitalize on this philosophy evidenced by these Mexicans.

"La Voz de Aztlan"

What is the meaning of the word Aztlan?

Multiculturalism, Immigration and Aztlan

As I have noted previously, our nation is separated from Mexico by not much more than a "speed bump." In the wake of the attacks of September 11, 2001 many members of Congress expressed frustration that the various U.S. intelligence agencies failed to "connect the dots" to protect our nation and our citizens. The purpose of intelligence is to observe trends before they become a major problem. In effect, good intelligence enables our leaders to "lead the target" so that you can head problems off before these problems create a disaster.

I would respectfully submit that these issues should give us all cause for pause. These issues should also do more than cause our elected "leaders" to tout the value of a guest worker program for illegal aliens. The time to secure the border has more than come, yet this is simply not being done. The Border Patrol publicly congratulates itself for apprehending more than 1 million illegal aliens last year. What they don't generally admit to, however, is the fact despite the valiant efforts of the men and wormen of the Border Patrol, nearly all of those illegal aliens ultimately make their way into our country's interior. I will again remind you that Robert Mueller has testified about his concerns about terrorist sleeper cells that may well be operating in our country now.

It is said that "None is as blind as he who will not see!" Therefore let us connect the dots for our leaders who refuse to see (or hear the demands of the citizens of the United States). I implore them to secure the borders and enforce the immigration laws before the next attack!!

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