I need not enumerate the tenets of Islam here that make it an anathema to our nation, but they exist now and they are deadly. For a Muslim to turn his back on these Islamic tenets is for him to be executed at the first opportunity. Thus, we have a huge potential fifth column in our country. Or are we letting ourselves be deluded as to the real threat?

“It can’t happen here” is what I heard on September 10th, 2001.

Guess the percentage of bad, violent Muslims as perhaps 1% of the total, or about 60 thousand potential terrorists. Want to make it more palatable? OK, then take only 1/4%, which leaves us 15 thousand to chase after on a daily basis, because they are identified as linked with terrorist organizations run from Muslim lands.

Of course we don’t know legally just what these people are up to, and they are at any one moment being passive and making nice. But, it occurs to me that we are wide open to their use of bombs, and the most likely number of them is not bandied about by the authorities. This number of potentially 15 thousand terrorists in the US is, to put it mildly, a significant bunch to keep an eye on, and that is the minimum, I believe.

So let the majority be rosy and friendly, and not able to hurt a fly. They aren’t the ones to worry about, at least not at first.

Then too, there is no known test one can devise to expose the bad guys. You will know them by their acts.

We cannot keep putting our heads in the sand about this threat, can we?

They said the same thing about the Irish a hundred years ago and you know what happened? As the economic situation improved for the Irish, the started having far fewer babies. And I think it is pretty well correlated that relatively richer people have fewer children.

As for the illegals, I think it will be stopped one way or another - either on the Mexican side where improving economic conditions will slow it down or on this side where people will eventually rebel and get serious about border security - probably after another terrorist attack.

I think the trends in the Hispanic population will, over the next 20 years or less, unfortunately disprove the above statement.

Any mentioning of the Oklahoma city bombing?

the “poor, oppressed” Islamists only want us to leave them alone.

Think again.

As Captain Ed notes:

It’s hard to say how seriously anyone should take this as a real contemporary threat to the US, but it does point out how seriously the …

First, it must be said that I have a better shot of being the closer for the Chicago Cubs than the Muslim Brotherhood has ever had of taking over the country.

Same goes for the fear and loathing being manufactured by the left in regards to a “Christian theocracy” being established in America. Christians can’t even agree on which version of the Bible is proper, much less coalescing to the point of supplanting our Constitution with it.

Certainly a large part of the problem have been short sighted policies promulgated by the relatively homogeneous, Christian governments of Europe that segregate the newcomers and deny them many of the benefits of living in the west.

Christian governments of Europe? Some shallow symbolism remains of what was once a deeply-held tradition, but in the practical sense the governments of “Great Britain, France, Holland, and Denmark” have been overwhelmed by secular influences over the past half century.

The way Dempster’s been pitching lately, you might be an upgrade, so I wouldn’t consider this to be very re-assuring.