New Poll Shows Terror Support Among Muslims in U.S.

"The message of the just-released Pew Research Center study on "Muslim Americans" is clear (if you can get beyond the biased press coverage and headlines): America hasn't moderated Islam or its adherents. Islam has made America Muslim residents more extreme, just as with its European counterparts. Wealth and education and opportunity and freedom have done nothing to moderate them," says Debbie Schlussel. "More than one in four Muslims (or 26%), aged 18-29, said 'Suicide Bombing is Justified.' 2% percent of them say it can often be justified, 13% say sometimes, and 11% say rarely. Add to that, the 5% don't know/refused to answer this easy, instinctive question, and it's even worse--for a total of 31%--almost a third of young American Muslims, who support homicide bombings."

In a related story, the San Antonio Express News has a four-part series on illegal aliens from the Middle East who are smuggled across the Mexican border. "The deals cut at places like Al Nawateer [in Syria] could affect you. Americans from San Antonio to Detroit might find themselves living among immigrants from Islamic countries who have come to America with darker pursuits than escaping war or starting a new life . . . U.S.-bound illicit travel from Islamic countries, which started long before 9-11 and includes some reputed terrorists, has gained momentum and worried counterterrorism officials as smugglers exploit 2 million Iraq war refugees. The irony is that the war America started to make itself safer has forced more people regarded as security threats toward its borders."

"'They are not all economic migrants,' said attorney Janice Kephart, who served as legal counsel for the 9-11 Commission and co-wrote its final staff report. 'I do get frustrated when people who live in Washington or Illinois say we don't have any evidence that terrorists are coming across. But there is evidence.'"

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