Islamization of the American Continent!

MOHAMMED'S FIFTH COLUMN

"Allah is great. There is no other god and Mohammed is his emissary on earth," says Juan Tún, reciting from an Arabic text he has dutifully memorized and scrawled on a wall in his one-room mud-brick house. A few of his people are still being wooed by charismatic Christians and baptized on the shores of Lake Atitlán. Tún and many of his fellow Maya have heeded the call of a different doctrine hawked by newfangled crusaders, and are now seeking spiritual refuge in the very heart of Islam.

The apostles, Spanish-speaking Iranians, Moroccans, Saudis, Syrians and Yemenis, hold British, French, German, Italian, and US passports. Their mission: To seek out the poor, the oppressed, the forgotten, and find among them willing converts. Many of the fresh disciples in Mexico's Chiapas region were forced off their lands in the wake of the Zapatista uprising in 1994, when Maya insurgents waged war against the Mexican government.

Others are being recruited in Guatemala's Petén, and Honduras's desolate and poverty-stricken indigenous communities of Copán, Ocotepeque, Lempira, Intibucá and La Paz, where natives are still victims of de facto persecution. Allah's emissaries are also said to be gaining some converts in the Talamanca region of Costa Rica, held back in time by its remoteness and where Cobra Commando periodically sow panic in Indian villages. Conversions also take place in isolated areas inhabited by the Aymara Inca of Peru and Bolivia. These compliant proselytes are among the thousands of converts to various Protestant sects who were exiled for defecting from the state religion --- a brand of Roman Catholicism spiced up with a generous sprinkling of ancient native rituals. Conversions are also finding fertile ground in Brazil and Argentina, which have large Muslim populations --- descendants of Lebanese, Palestinian and Syrian immigrants --- many of whom, aroused by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, have since experienced a burst of atavistic self-identity and nationalism.

It is the political turmoil, despair, bitterness, the economic downturns and quickly shifting geopolitical dynamics that the missionaries are said to be exploiting to establish a foothold for Islam in Latin America. There's more...