Two Massachusetts imams accused in immigration scheme

Boston Globe ^ | 11-16-06 | Yvonne Abraham and Raja Mishra

[xtinct]

Federal immigration agents arrested imams from two Boston-area mosques Wednesday, alleging they were involved in a scheme that provided religious worker visas to immigrants who used them to enter the United States and work instead as gas station attendants, truck drivers, and factory laborers.

Hafiz Abdul Hannan, imam, or leader, of the Islamic Society of Greater Lowell in Chelmsford, and Muhammed Masood, imam, or leader, of the Islamic Center of New England in Sharon, were among 33 people taken into custody nationwide after a multi-year investigation led by agents in Boston and New York, said Paula Grenier, a spokeswoman for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

[Dallas59]

RACISM!!!

[knarf]

My first thought was titheism ... we'll get you here as a religious worker, but you'll actually get secular jobs ... it'll cost ya' ... but at least you'll be here ....

Ya gots to pays ya tithe.

[Son House]

Not to worry,

Democrats are going to stop immigration,

till it's " paid for ",

Michael Moore promised,

even for Republican supporters.

[David Isaac]

How many years after 9-11 and they are still getting away with this? Homeland Security, my A$$! Good thing the adults are in charge?

[Kozak]

Thats nothing. remember this....

"The U.S. has already been invaded by 10,000 Saudis. The Saudis are here on student visas, and there are currently 15,000 Saudi applicants to U.S. universities seeking undergraduate degrees just waiting for the okay to come into the United States.

Over the next 5 years, 25,000 Saudis are expected to arrive in (invade) America to take advantage of an agreement between President George W. Bush and King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz, with their bills and tuition paid for by the Saudi government."

[Ben Ficklin]

Build the fence.

[flynmudd]

You can build fences along both borders. Electrify them, make them 50 feet tall if you want. Won't keep people from flying into this country.

[gubamyster]

ping

[CottShop]

Dems wouldn't allow homeland security- Feel afraid- thank a dem.

[Ben Ficklin]

I made that statement to be a wiseass.

Some say that the biggest terror threat is the southern border. This article proves otherwise.

[bert]

So what?

the saudi's are our strong Ally and good friend.

One reason is because there are so many US educated Saudis.

[fortunecookie]

a scheme that provided religious worker visas to immigrants who used them to enter the United States and work instead as gas station attendants, truck drivers, and factory laborers.

Aaaah, isn't that special.

[Kozak]

the saudi's are our strong Ally and good friend.

Yeah Right.
Who funds all the militant Wahibi mosques and madrassas?
Where do most of the foreign fighters in Iraq come from?
Where did most of the 911 hijackers come from?

With "friends" like these......

[lndrvr1972]

I am so glad that WWII is not going on now.

[bert]

Are you a left winger? Do you feel the poverty level in the inner cities needs tons of money to be fixed. Are you really a pro choice anti gun leftie? Are you of the opinion that we must get rid of our cars and walk every where like your envirowacko friends?

I can only conclude you are and all the above is true because you are American.

[dennisw]

Why do all these MUZZIES want to leave their ISLAMIC PARADISES to live in the racist infidel United States of America??

[Kozak]

Yeah, the problem is just the "extreme " few. Most Saudi's LOVE us. /sarc

A Gallup poll conducted in late January and early February of 2002 found 64 percent of Saudis to have an unfavorable view of the United States.(32)

A Zogby International poll conducted in February, March, and April 2002 found 51 percent of Saudis to have an unfavorable view of the United States. Eighty-seven percent of Saudi respondents had an unfavorable impression of American policy toward the Palestinians.(34)

A new Zogby poll conducted in July 2003, once the occupation of Iraq was well underway, found 70 percent of Saudis to have an unfavorable view of the American people, up from 51 percent the year before. 81 percent took an unfavorable view of U.S. policy towards Iraq, essentially unchanged from before. Ninety-four percent had an unfavorable view of U.S. policy towards the Palestinians, up from 87 percent the previous year.(47)

One-third of Saudis and more than one-fifth of Turks favor the Government of
Iran developing nuclear weapons,

(CNN) -- Almost half of all Saudis said in a poll conducted last year that they have a favorable view of Osama bin Laden's sermons and rhetoric

n the first poll, which surveyed six Arab nations and was commissioned by the Washington-based Arab American Institute (AAI), the overall approval ratings of the US ranged between an unprecedented low of two per cent in Egypt and a high of 20 per cent in Lebanon. Those holding a favourable view of the US in Saudi Arabia were four per cent

September 21, 2005 No.990

Saudi Government Official on Iqra TV: All Muslims Must Support Jihad – Send Money to the Saudi Committee for Support of the Al-Quds Intifada, Account No. 98

During the summer of 2005, the Saudi media started reexamining the activities at Saudi summer camps. Intellectuals and columnists in the Saudi press claimed that terrorists and extremists were using the camps to spread their views and to recruit youth. As evidence, they presented cases of terrorists attending the camps as both campers and counselors.

Interview on Saudi Government TV With Prominent Egyptian Professor: Muslims Had Nothing to Do with 9/11; Dirty Zionist Hands Behind It

So lets say even 5% of those new "students" end up being radical islamist's, that's over 1200 potential terrorists we import to our country. Sounds brilliant to me.