In the past few weeks the news media, and blogosphere, has been bandying about the question of where ISIS would pop up next in their global game of whack a mole. The answer came this week when Australian authorities arrested members of a terror cell in their country that are connected to Khaled Sharrouf whose Lebanese parents emigrated to Australia. In case you did not recognize the name, Khaled is the man whose elementary school aged son caused a stir of Twitter when his proud papa posted a picture of the boy holding a severed head and smiling. Many well known pundits have been asking on obvious question-with no response from the “leadership” across the globe-are we letting in the wrong refugees? Since 1983 when jihadists bombed the Marine barracks in Beirut, we have known about radical Islam and its threat to the United States interests abroad. On September 11th, 2001 we learned a painful lesson about the threat that it poses to the U.S. Homeland; and yet we still allow immigration from the Muslim world to this country with no added screening of these immigrants to this day.

In an article on Muslim immigration written by Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center in New York, from 1992-2012 Muslim immigration to this country doubled. You might think that I am being racist here but remember that these are immigrants with a birth rate that is two to three times greater than our own. When you take into account what has happened with Britain; where Shariah courts have been granted equivalency with those of the Crown and recently an 82 year old woman was found beheaded in the backgarden of her million dollar home and the lead suspect is thought to be a Muslim, it bears consideration. As of their 2011 census, nine percent of the country’s under five year olds were Muslim. As a whole the Muslim population of Britain is less than five percent.

What does that mean for the United States? Well, some towns in Southern California are already undergoing a massive shift in their cultural make-up. In Burbank, a suburb of Los Angeles, there are entire churches whose congregations are Syrian Christians most of whom fled the strife in their home country for a normal life here in the U.S. So going forward, with the potential threat of ISIS sympathizers coming into the country via immigration one would think that perhaps extra attention being paid to the immigrants motives for coming to the U.S. should at least be explored.

In closing I would ask you to simply consider the definition of a culture:

“A system of shared beliefs and values of group: the beliefs, customs, practices, and social behavior of a particular nation or people”

Consider what happens when there is no longer a shared system of beliefs, customs and values in a nation-what then? As history has shown us with Islam, the trend is for the vanquished culture to be removed from history-or “absorbed” into the Arab world.