Some of them may be recent immigrants but others are probably from the local long term but radicalized population. I was in Spain last week and there were round ups going on everywhere. Even in my quiet little residential neighborhood, because the Spanish follow these things very closely. I saw an anti-terrorist squad marching a chain of ME men out, hands on head, from a modest but not bad apartment building to the police van...
One of the problems is that the French and the Spanish have always been reluctant to share intelligence, mostly because one side or the other was always trying to protect ETA (marxist Basque separatists), depending on the orientation of the government in power at that time.
I hope this will be a wake up call to everybody. But then again, I thought 9/11 would do that. And it didn’t.
Thank you for your thoughtful comment.
I too hope it will be a wakeup call.
But at the same time, the general conservative counter-revolutionary (for lack of a better term) sentiments on FreeRepublic are just as disgusting.
What I have seen recently here was: 1)ban Islam, 2)we need Vlad the Impaler back, and 3)politicians who are pro-immigration in Europe who get shot get what they deserve - and yes I have seen significant support for all three of these things here in the past month or two.