Written by Alexandros Niklan Sr. Security Consultant
Islamic
immigration and Terrorism have ties
While UN and other institution try to make clear that immigration is not directly connected to terrorism, data present today that this is not the case. It is true that not all immigrants are potential terrorists, however it is also true that recent rise of terrorist attack in Western part of the world, were committed by immigrants or second generation descendants of immigrants.
According to recent survey for example in USA, foreign-born terrorists who entered the country, either as immigrants or tourists, were responsible for 88 percent( or 3,024) of the 3,432 murders caused by terrorists on U. S. soil from 1975 through the end of 2015. This latest paper presents the first terrorism risk analysis of the visa categories those foreign-born terrorists used to enter the United States.
As for Europe data show that from July 2015 to May 2016, more than 1 million people applied for asylum in Europe. The immigrant share of the population increased most during this time in Sweden, Hungary, Austria and Norway, which each saw an increase of at least 1 percentage point. While that rise might seem small, even a 1-point increase in a single year is rare, especially in Western countries. This " spike " in Muslim population numbers, by default expand and enlarge the recruiting " pool " for possible potential terrorists. It is also a fact that in 2016, numbers show that victims from terrorist attacks at Europe has reached about 3100 victims compared to 2300 in 2015. A number that is only matching the rise of immigration flows in numbers going to West.
In Western Europe, specifically, the two trends of mass immigration and global terrorism intersect visibly and dangerously. For more than a decade the region has formed a haven for Middle Eastern " dissidents," often a. k. a. mujahedeen, and for graduate students like Mohammed Atta. But these visitors or first generation immigrants are by no means the only source of concern. The murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh by a Dutch Muslim of Moroccan descent served notice for a new generation of mujahedeen born and bred in Europe and the object of focused al Qaeda post-9-11 and post-Iraq recruitment. Because these children of guest workers are European born, they are citizens entitled to passports.
The new mujahedeen are European born and bred and products of a little noticed convergence of migratory networks and terrorist cells. In addition, European Muslim recruits can form the al Qaeda cells most apt to plot a course in the United States. The second-generation terrorists speak European languages, handle computers, surf the internet, exchange e-mail, and are familiar with post-industrial infrastructures and customs.
In addition to previous mentioned characteristics someone should also notice that:
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