Jihad in South America: A New Nightmare for the U.S.
According to this article from Italy’s La Stampa, not only has Jihad moved out of the Middle East; it has moved closer to the U.S.’ back door.
Here’s the thrust of the story.
Although the first alarm from the Pentagon arose in 2004, the year 2007 signaled an escalation of Muslim penetration in Latin America that for the most part centers on the privileged relations between Caracas and Tehran. The danger comes from the converging of interests among drug-dealers and Islamic terrorists which, mirroring a model of the existing alliance between similar operatives in Afghanistan, would be capable of giving life to a network capable of sustaining itself and committing devastating attacks against the shared American enemy.
The specifics are beyond disconcerting:
The Caracas airport has become a free port-of-passage for Islamic extremists thanks to the fact that the recent agreement on free movement of people negotiated with Tehran does not require arrivals from Iran to possess entrance visas anymore; and from 2002 to 2005 Venezuelan police detained without cause dissident Iranian journalist Manuchehr Honarmand, who is now in exile in the Netherlands.
About 2000 illegal immigrants enter this country a day. About 500 Mexicans settle permanently and illegally daily in the U.S. If I were an Iranian terrorist, I’d just follow them.
In the history of the civilized world, borders have always been about security. When did this stop? What is the privileged status of the U.S.’s southern border that none of the huge U.S. defense capacity is used to defend it? It seems absurd to be talking about building “a fence” there – essentially a technology as old as man – when every other security threat identified by the U.S. is met with the most expensive and smartest technology on the planet? The dissonance is simultaneously inconsistent and hypocritical. Worst, if we truly are threatened by Islamic terrorism, it is dangerous. Are we?
Read “Jihad in South America” on Watching America.com for a reality-jolt.
5 Responses to “Jihad in South America: A New Nightmare for the U.S.”
This storyline is old and we've heard it before. But Islamo-Stooges have a better chance coming from Canada. It's border is just as porous as the one to the South, but those Northerners aren't “dirty brown skinned people”.
There actually isn't much “new” about this – the tri-border area has long been associated with islamic extremist groups.
So this is a story about a bunch of Shia “extremists” coming into South America. What is the political aim supposed to be and how is it a threat to America or anyone else? They may be unpleasant people, as extremists usually are, but beyond that I'm not seeing the story line here. If the story was about Sunni “extremists” (and again, you have to have a less vague accusation against someone than that they're extremists), my ears might have pricked up a bit more .
“It's border is just as porous as the one to the South”
Are you sure about this? In the past, it certainly was easy — I could visit one place I know featuring an expanse of lawn, and a ditch on the northern end of the lawn was the international border; there were Canadian homes along the street on the other side of the ditch, and all I had to do was walk along the lawn and step across the ditch — but I wonder if it's as easy now to cross without detection.
“better chance coming from Canada”
Our North African and West Asian friends resemble others of Mediterranean descent more often in the Southwest than along our northern border.
Remember the Toronto terrorism incident.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Toronto_terro…
Political amnesty used to be quite easy in Canada. There is a large Arab community in Canada, none in Mexico.
The border in rural Vermont, North Dakota and the North West is just as isolated as to the South. Drug smuggling from Canada to the US is common.