Free The Terrorist Next Door by Erick Stakelbeck Page B

Stakelbeck. We’re with CBN News in Washington. We’d love to interview one of your spokespeople for a story we’re working on. Is there anyone around who we could speak to?”
    The woman seemed unfazed. Strange visitors bearing notepads or video cameras and questions about the goings-on inside the compound had become more common since 9/11.

    â€œThe guy you want to talk to isn’t here,” she replied. “But if you go inside and ask, someone will help you.”
    With that, she turned to the woman driving and said something. They immediately sped away before I had a chance to thank them. Daveed, Mike, and I looked at each other. “You guys ready?” I asked. Both of them nodded, and we entered the compound.

    You might be shocked that a compound like the one in Red House exists in rural America. After all, we’re not talking about Afghanistan, Yemen, or Somalia—we’re talking Dukes of Hazzard country. As I write these words, I can just hear our enlightened Left’s indignant response: “We’d believe it if you found white supremacist rednecks and far-right militia types setting up a backwoods shooting range and railing against the government. But sprawling camps filled with Islamic jihadists (er, ‘violent extremists’), just a few miles from the local Wal-Mart? Stakelbeck, you’re an alarmist fearmonger and an intolerant Islamophobe. Anyway, there are no Muslims in the South.”
    Oh no? Have you heard about the $10 million al-Farooq Masjid mega-mosque that opened in 2008 in Atlanta? 10 Or what about Abu Mansoor al-Amriki (formerly Omar Hammadi), the Alabama-bred kid who has become a leading spokesman for the al-Qaeda-linked Somali terror group al-Shabaab? And have you checked out the demographics lately in Tennessee? About twenty years ago, following the first Gulf War, Nashville was designated by the U.S. State Department as a “gateway city” for Iraqi refugees fleeing Saddam Hussein’s regime. 11 In the ensuing two decades, those gates were opened to Muslims from Iraq as well as other countries—because our government elites aren’t satisfied to see Islam only spreading in major cities like New York, Detroit, and Chicago. No, the residents of America’s Christian heartland must also learn to be “tolerant” and “accepting” of Islamic culture, and open their longestablished
communities to a way of life that is completely antithetical to their values. Whether they want it or not, it will be rammed down their throats with bureaucratic efficiency, and their neighborhoods and towns will be changed irrevocably. Forget about waking up to the sounds of the rooster crowing, Farmer John. The call to prayer billowing from the local mosque will be your new alarm clock.
    A 2008 survey showed the percentage of non-Christians in Tennessee’s population tripled from 1 percent in 1990 to 3 percent in 2008. 12 The greater Memphis area is now home to an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 Muslims, and local Islamic leaders put the number of Muslims in Nashville at around 20,000. 13 It’s tough to verify those numbers, but spend a few days on the ground in Nashville and in nearby towns in middle Tennessee like Murfreesboro and Shelbyville, as I have, and the growing Islamic influence is unmistakable—from shops to schools to restaurants to, of course, the shiny new multi-million-dollar mega-mosques.
    As we discussed in chapter one, this trend comports with a specific agenda: Islamists are taking the fight directly to what they view as the heart of American Christendom. What better way to show Allah’s dominion over infidel land than to build giant victory arches in the form of sprawling Islamic centers?
    If the current Muslim influx continues, terrorist recruiters overseas may begin to take Tennessee’s nickname, “The Volunteer State,” quite seriously. And if the case of Abdulhakim Muhammad is any