Breitbart: Over 100,00 Muslim Students In Universities Across The US Not Vetted for Radical Beliefs

Since 9/11, the number of international students enrolled in American universities and colleges has increased by 72 percent.  In this 15 year period, the Saudi Arabia student population grew by 1,000 percent and North African and Middle Eastern students, from 19 countries have tripled.

Saudi Arabia is fourth behind China, India and South Korea in sending students to study in America’s top universities, yet Saudi is first in increased student population rate.  This number grew by 11.5 percent in the 2014-2015 academic year.

It is true that a substantial majority of the 59,945 Saudi students now on F-1 visas are funded by scholarships from Saudi government-sponsored foundations, and presumably those foundations do conduct some kind of screening for overt terrorist affiliations.

However, the Saudi government may not be as diligent in that effort as, say, our FBI might be if given that task. But to date, the FBI has never been tasked with doing routine background checks on foreign students. Understandably, the FBI might be more worried about the 10,000 Syrian refugees Obama wants to bring to the U.S. in 2016 and the 50,000 planned for 2017.

So if the FBI is not able to diligently vet incoming students, then they must be on the defense as Al-Quada allied students have been discovered studying at American schools.  Just a few months back, four students from Illinois and Ohio were indicted for funneling money to the Anwar Al-Awlaki terrorist in Yemen.  These students were from India, not necessarily seen as a terrorist den.  A more thorough form of vetting could have prevented all of this.

It would be extremely naive to think they are not a few dozen to be found among the 100,000-plus Muslim students now enjoying “academic pursuits” in Berkeley, Chicago and Los Angeles.

We know that ISIS is actively recruiting among that population. In fact, news reports confirm that ISIS has a high-tech branch that is recruiting scientists, engineers, and computer technicians to plan and deliver devastating terrorist attacks in Europe and America.

• ISIS is aggressively recruiting highly educated scientists and graduate students into their network.
• So, the problem is not simply to identify and prevent entry to the U.S. by individuals who are already committed to jihadist activity. The new problem is the ongoing recruitment through the Internet and social media of Muslim intellectuals who already reside in the United States by virtue of citizenship or a student visa.

We are in grave danger because of the lack of proper vetting of foreign students across the university campuses.  It is a ticking time bomb, as we can only assume that of these 1,000,000 foreign students, there is a high probability that there are radical Islamist sympathizers within the lot.

Source:  Breitbart