[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

They're moving in like locusts from other countries. They're not converting the natives. Any muslim missionary that shows up on my doorstep is going to get an earful, and since Sept. 11th, I'm not feeling real shy.

[ladyinred]

They're not converting the natives.

While what you said is true about them moving in from other countries, they have been coverting Americans in our prison system for many years by the thousands.

[Joe Hadenuf]

They're moving in like locusts from other countries.

Middle Easterners streaming to Texas

By EDWARD HEGSTROM

Copyright 2002 Houston Chronicle

Texas has one of the nation's fastest-growing Middle Eastern populations, and most of the state's immigrants live in Houston, according to a study based on census data.

Researchers at the Center for Immigration Studies say Texas' Middle Eastern population more than doubled in the last decade, to just over 100,000, including more than 52,000 in Greater Houston.