Posted on 09/01/2005 3:42:34 AM PDT by F14 Pilot
I have a joke that goes: First we got bilingual schools--where Spanish-speaking kids aren’t learning English, but English-speaking kids are reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish. Then there was the California school where students were made to dress, fast and pray like Muslims for three weeks. What's next for American public school children? Islamic prayer in Spanish?
Well, I thought I was kidding. Now that Venezuelan presidential dictator Hugo Chavez is forging alliances within Iran, Iraq and Libya and is rumored to be supplying false documents to 300 or so al-Qaida terrorists, I’m not so sure. And when Ricky Martin turned up in Jordan recently, donning a black-and-white Palestinian kaffiyeh reading “Jerusalem is Ours,” I realized there really might be something to this trend (after I got past my initial confusion that oh no, Puerto Rico also wants Jerusalem?!).
Islamic Society of North America numbers show there are about 40,000 Latino Muslims in the U.S., according to a Christian Science Monitor article last year, and “Latinos account for six percent of the 20,000 Muslim conversions in the United States each year, according to a report published by the Council on American-Islamic Relations.”
The Monitor item, out of Union City, NJ was titled “U.S. Latinas Seek Answers in Islam,” and began by describing Jasmine Pinet as she “sits on the steps outside a mosque here, tucking in strands of her burgundy hair beneath a white head scarf, and explaining why she, a young Latina, feels that she has found greater respect as a woman by converting to Islam.
“‘They're not gonna say, “Hey mami, how are you?”’ Ms. Pinet says of Muslim men. ‘Usually they say, “Hello, sister.” And they don't look at you like a sex object.’....Anecdotal evidence suggests that the number of Latino converts to Islam may be rising."
No kidding. Does the name Jose Padilla, aka Abdullah al-Muhajir, ring a bell? That’s the former Chicago gang member and Muslim convert who was convicted last year for plotting to either unleash a dirty bomb or nuke here, or just blow up New York apartment buildings. Padilla has company: the South American tri-border region of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina has become a training and hideout nexus for Middle Eastern terror groups like Hamas and Hezbollah. And last week, a group of Mexicans took an example from Palestinians while crossing into California illegally, throwing baseball-sized rocks at an overhead Border Patrol helicopter, gashing the rotor and forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing.
On a more benign note, a recent CBS news report revealed that Iran is the nose job capital of the world. Whose ideal-nose photo are the young women clutching when they walk into the plastic surgeon’s office? J. Lo’s!
We may not be at the point of a Spanish-language Koran-study elective in schools yet, but the Latin-Muslim vogue that’s been picking up steam calls for at least some new vocabulary. To describe the 40,000 Latino Muslims, I suggest the term Larabinos, and for the Jennifer Lopezes of Iran--since Iranians are not Arabs--the more accurate, post-operation classification would be Muslinas.
Lending itself to the Hisparabic chic is Michigan Rep. John Conyers’ Web site, which offers to translate the page into either of two languages: Spanish or Arabic. Not to bolster the gruff “Speak English!” crowd, but senior citizens aside, if you’re Hispanic, don’t speak English and vote for Conyers, you’re probably looking to help La Raza give parts of the country back to Mexico. And if you’re a non-senior-citizen Muslim who doesn’t speak English and votes Conyers, you’re probably looking to Islamicize the country. Were these two groups to find a common language, say Sparabic, they could merge into a single entity called Muslicans, and form a fusion extremist wing named al-Raza or La Qaida—which, under the guiding principle of “Su casa es mi casa,” would work toward the creation of the United States of Islamexica.
And why not? Let them fight the Chinese for it!
“Latinos account for six percent of the 20,000 Muslim conversions in the United States each year"
I'm more worried about the other 94 per cent.
Time to make sure you all have plenty of ammo stashed away.
Latinos are staunchly Roman Catholic or (increasingly) protestant pentecostal. They do NOT convert to islam in any appreciable numbers.
This is just another chance for the excitable crowd to imagine another "threat" from the surging latino population.
The REAL threat from Islamofascists comes from our OTHER unprotected, porous border. Canada openly harbors them. There is, in fact, a history of those people actually coming across to do us harm. But don't let the facts stand in your way of the handwringing over the "Mexican Threat."
The "concerned" freepers caterwauling about the dire threat about the potential "terrorists" coming from Mexico are uniformly ignorant of the TRUE threat coming from the other border, or they are just prejudiced and using security issues to cloak that prejudice.
The Latino's used to be Catholic Democrats.
Not then, not now, not ever! "O ye of little faith.."
Really? name one instance of an Islamo-wacko comming from Canada and causing harm. With the population of Muslims in the USA reaching over 10 million, I wouldn't be too concerned about Canada's 600,000 muslims. Who's harboring them? Atta and his group who flew planes into the WTC all lived in the USA, they didn't come from Canada.
Why don't you go someplace where hating conservatives is de rigour?
I should add that we should take care of the mess in our own backyard before we peer over the fence and worry about the neighbors mess. Islamic fundamentalist wacko's are in every country, including ours. The large number of arrests over the past couple years prove that the problem is HERE, not in Canada. They live and function HERE, set up their terrorist cells HERE.
Do you want some scary facts about what is going on HERE?
check out :
http://www.americancongressfortruth.com/
Given that Latinos comprise somewhere between 9 and 13 percent of the US population, they are actually under-represented in the number of Muslim converts.
Well, he didn't get a chance to cause harm, but LAX/Millenium Bomb Plotter Ahmed Rassam was crossing over from Canada. If he'd been a little less sweaty he probably would have succeeded.
I don't think there is any fortune to be made building mosques in Hispanic neighborhoods.
I was defending free markets, freedom of ideas and rtkba before you were an ache in your dad's testosterone factory. The fact is, I DON'T hate conservatives, but I despise those who, in the name of "conservatism" post stupid and hateful things re: Latinos.
The clown who we arrested last year with plans to blow up the Space Needle in Seattle was illegally here from Canada.
then I suggest you address your comments to them by name and quit with the broad brush crap.
"suggest" all you like. I will likewise suggest you mind your owne damn business? I despise the attitudes of most freepers who post on the immigration threads. If it bothers you real bad maybe you should just scroll thru the post? Just a helpful hint.
Try geritol, old timer.
worse than crochety. I am absolutely obnoxious, distasteful, obstreporous, and hostile. If you piss me off enough I will gum your arm off clean up to the elbow, sonny!
You are ok, skeeter....... Hell, anyone with a moniker like "skeeter" has to be alright in my book.
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