There’s nothing like the mass murder of journalists to rouse other scribblers to serious thinking about the general threats against free speech. The Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris has forced consideration about the danger of unfriendly Muslim immigrants who are historically and scripturally opposed to free expression when it refers to their violent religion

Even the squishy NRO warned against excessive immigration with a succinct assessment:

If a country is manifestly having trouble assimilating the immigrants it already has, it shouldn’t add to their numbers willy-nilly.

That thought came from Rich Lowry i n his critique of France: Europe’s Immigration Problem: Its unassimilated populations — often openly hostile to their host countries — continue to grow.

Lowry must believe assimilation of the diverse foreign-born (now numbering over 41 million) is proceeding apace in America. He apparently didn’t read John Fonte’s item in the same National Review, America’s Assimilation System Is Broken, a couple points of which follow:

? By 30 points (84.6 percent to 54 percent), native-born citizens are more likely than naturalized citizens to consider themselves “U.S. citizens” rather than “citizens of the world.” ? By 30 points (67.3 percent to 37 percent), the native-born are more likely than immigrant citizens to believe that the U.S. Constitution is a higher legal authority than international law if there’s conflict between the two.

It’s hard to know which is the bigger problem: the refusal of public schools to teach US citizenship as they once did or the huge numbers of foreigners culturally overwhelming formerly American neighborhoods . Newbies cannot assimilate if there are no models of American values to follow.

Like Muslim jihadists, raza elements peddle a supremacist ideology, only of Mexico first rather than Mohammed. One step is to normalize Spanish to the point of making the US a bilingual nation where Americans are forced to learn the invader’s language.

One memorable example of America’s failing assimilation engine is the years-long battle to run an American school system in Tucson, Arizona. A group of radical Mexicans there have insisted upon a race-based (“raza” means race) pro-Mexico curriculum. In 2008, a former ethnic studies teacher in the city wrote about the effect of the anti-American courses: Raza studies gives rise to racial hostility. The Tucson raza bunch are Mexican Marxists dedicated to using schools to inculcate young minds with the idea that they should fight against the white man’s Constitution.

Below, raza revolutionaries in Che berets and masks protested the state’s prohibition of a seditious curriculum in front of Tucson High School.

In 2010, Arizona passed a law to stop the extremist Aztlan instruction in the public schools, but non-assimilated Mexicans continue to demand it: