Posted on 06/14/2016 10:46:44 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
While immigrants draw much of the attention, it’s their children who are proving to be the most fruitful recruiting ground for radical jihad in the U.S., accounting for at least half of the deadly attacks over the past decade.
The latest instance of the second-generation terrorist syndrome played out in Orlando, Florida, over the weekend when Omar Mateen, son of immigrants from Afghanistan, went on a jihad-inspired rampage, killing 49 people and wounding 53 others in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.
Authorities said Mateen had flirted with other terrorist groups but declared his allegiance to the Islamic State on Sunday morning as he began his horrific spree.
He follows in the footsteps of Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the San Bernardino, California, terrorists who was the son of Pakistanis; Nadir Soofi, one of two men who attacked a drawing competition in Garland, Texas, last year and whose father was from Pakistan; and then-Maj. Nidal Hassan, the child of Palestinian immigrants whose shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009 set off the modern round of deadly lone-wolf attacks.
In other cases, attackers were immigrants brought to the U.S. as young children. They grew up in the U.S. but were besieged by questions of identity.
“Historically, the ‘high stress’ generation for American immigrants has been second generation,” said former CIA Director Michael V. Hayden. “Mom and Pop can rely on the culture of where they came from. Their grandchildren will be (more or less) thoroughly American.
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Because these "immigrants" aren't here to assimilate and pursue the American Dream; they're foreign invaders here to subjugate!
Should not have let their parents in.
True, but that train has already left the station. I'm more interested in what's to be done NOW.
Israel used to bulldoze homes and deport the family of suicide bombers, an effective deterrent. Maybe we should consider this?
If you don’t believe in something you’ll fall for anything
Hey, our government is importing future presidential candidates.
This is a major reason why Donald Trump's thrashing of the bullies is so very important.
The Cloward–Piven strategy.
R u talking about obama?
May be not. He was born in kenya.
well they do look up to our president.
The apples don't fall far from the trees. If parents follow a belief system that promotes the destruction of all those who do not submit to their religion's dictates, and the children take the words of their founding document literally, there is no surprise that deaths result.
When will America wake up?
These young offspring are not being radicalized through the Internet, or following some radical. All they are doing is trying in the most devout way possible, to follow the dictates found in the book they and their parents call the word of their god.
So, as many say, not all muslims are radical. We must pray for those followers who are “moderate muslims” to realize there is no love in Islam. There is no forgiveness in Islam, and that Islam does nothing but call for submission to a belief system that dictates actions that in themselves are sin.
We pray that they will realize that murdering others in their religion's name is sin, and that an all powerful God doesn't need a man to act in his stead. If that god does, then he is not God.
There has been so many accusations by Liberals, Atheist, Pagans, and the Intellectual Elite that Christians are hateful, violent, and persecute those who do not follow their beliefs. The founding document of Christianity calls for us to love our enemies, pray for those who persecute us, and do unto others as you would have them do to you.
Yes!
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