ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION: DISPLACING US FROM OUR CIVILIZATION

By Frosty Wooldridge
May 13, 2010
NewsWithViews.com

Will American society, culture and language survive an added 70 million immigrants within 25 years? That will prove the most significant question for the United States in the 21st century. Last week, a Muslim-American tried to blow up Times Square. His act gives us an example of our future.

Jesse Washington wrote, "But today, with the world a mouse click away and most every country in the world accessible in little more than a day, globalization is competing fiercely with assimilation. People who have a foot in two strikingly different cultures no longer leave one behind for the other. Now they can move between them easily, fluidly, quickly. Thus it becomes possible for a fanatical few Muslim-Americans, living in the belly of what they perceive as a hostile culture, to feel closer to a bombed Afghan village or a Pakistani madrassa than to the America outside their own front doors." The assimilated terrorist: An outsider no longer - Welcome to Charter.net

A reader named Milt wrote me a compelling understanding of what America faces as it immigrates and displaces itself out of its own culture and language. The Muslim-American Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad last week illustrates our plight.

“Mr. Washington's perceptive description of the limits of assimilation in an environment of rapid globalization is, I believe, an increasingly important consideration in the immigration debate,â€