Outrageous,stupid,racist islamophobic... calling muslim babies 'terror babies' Texas State Legislature, Debbie Riddle
If you thought the immigration debate in the US was just about porous borders and Hispanics, think again. Two Texas Republican lawmakers are now floating the terror baby theory. We all know someone or the other from Pakistan, who has come to the land of opportunities to deliver their baby, for a blue US passport so they can give their child a life with endless educational and job options, sans visa restrictions.
I talked to a retired FBI agent, who said that one of the things they were looking at were terrorist cells overseas who had figured out how to game our system, and it appeared they would have young women, who became pregnant, who would get them into the United States to have a baby then they would return back, where they could be raised and coddled as future terrorists. And then, one day, 20 or 30 years down the road they could be sent in to help destroy our way of life, because they figured out how stupid we are being in this country.
CNNs Anderson Cooper was shocked by the lawmakers claims and asked Riddle if the former FBI officials had given her any proof of the terror baby plot. They completely knocked the claim down and an FBI official said the agency does not have any credible evidence that this is happening. Cooper announced. You oversaw some of the biggest terror hot-spots for the FBI, have you ever come across evidence of these terror babies or anything like this? Cooper asked Fuentes, the FBIs assistant director of international operations from 2004-2008.No, Anderson. Never, Fuentes replied. The FBI has 75 offices overseas including offices in Jordan, Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Pakistan. There was never a credible report or even any report for that matter coming across through all the various mechanisms to indicate that there was such a plan for these terror babies to be born they cannot only recruit US citizens as we have seen in plot after plot but also any of these European radicalised terrorists can fly here without a visa anytime, so the idea that they would somehow grow terrorists from the ground up is ludicrous.
Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations has said Republicans have obviously made the political calculation that bashing Islam and Muslims is a winning issue for them. The terror baby plot may seem irresponsible and below the belt, but they are coming from politicians hot with election fever. The question is will the politics of spreading Islamophobia and blurring the line between al Qaeda and Islam last till the 2012 Presidential election and if so, how ugly will it get?
