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  • Bolivia Becoming a Hotbed of Islamic Extremism, Report Concludes

    06/17/2009 4:41:09 AM PDT · by Red in Blue PA · 9 replies · 390+ views
    Foxnews ^ | 6/16/2009 | Staff
    A poor, agrarian, landlocked country in South America with a nearly 100 percent Christian population is hardly the place one would expect to become a hotbed of Islamic extremism in the Western Hemisphere. But a recent report by the Open Source Center (OSC) of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence says it's so. There are only 1,000 Muslims in Bolivia, a country of 9.7 million people, but the connection between some of the community’s religious leaders and Iran — as well as with fundamentalist factions in the Palestinian territories — has U.S. officials and terror experts keeping a...