Posted on 07/16/2005 9:02:23 AM PDT by radar101
Muslim cleric Mohammad Adil Khan's impending deportation after being linked to an FBI terrorism probe clears up his fate, but it does nothing to resolve the question of what will happen to a school for this city's Islamic community that he was helping to build.
Adil Khan, who comes from the same region of Pakistan where most Lodi Muslims trace their roots, was a prolific fund-raiser who had spent several years pulling together more than $300,000 for a school for the Farooqia Islamic Center. More than 400 people came to a county Planning Commission hearing in April on the center, which would include a library and a mosque that women could attend. Business, community and religious leaders, including a rabbi and the executive director of Boys and Girls Club, voiced support.
"So many people were excited," said Taz Ali, 33, a high school English teacher who grew up in this Central Valley city. "It really eased their minds. You have to understand, a lot of Pakistanis, their dad speaks a little English and mom none. When you don't speak the language and don't know the culture, it's frightening for them to let children become a part of something they're not familiar with."
Last month, the 47-year-old Adil Khan was arrested on immigration charges, and federal authorities made it clear they were trying to determine whether the Farooqia center was linked to extremist activities. On Friday, Khan agreed to be deported to Pakistan along with his 19-year-old son.
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one less wahabbi (sp) school won't matter.
One less school will make a great difference...too bad we can't lose them all and stop the brainwashing of future terrorists.
The only way to view the proposed school is that is was his "cover". With him gone, perhaps others without clandestine intentions can take over.
"was a prolific fund-raiser who had spent several years pulling together more than $300,000 for a school for the Farooqia Islamic Center".
I wouldn't worry about what will happen to the school he was supposed to build. For one thing, $300k is not all that much money. For another, I imagine most of that's already been spent on explosives, etc...
Let them build it, then burn it down!
I may just have to save that pic and print it on a few large shipping labels I have inb my printer and stick them in a few choice spots..Maybe Durbin's head would be a start.
Not entirely. The chief purpose of these Islamic schools, funded by generous Saudis and their ilk, is to train up more generations of terrorists. Why else would they put up this kind of money and channel it through a terrorist?
Insanity is permitting these schools to isolate the children in an Islamic environment. My experience observing the impact of such schools in Islamic areas of the North of Thailand is that after a couple of years, you get resentful and angry youth wearing baggy white clothing and Muslim skull caps. They then roam around looking menacing to the remainder of the community (and likely preparing Jihad). Apparently that is what the Californians want??
I am from the Lodi-Stockton area and my former home appears to have been taken over by immigrants and I no longer want to live there for it looks like a foreign land. I hope the people there will fight everything that is Islamic, for it will bring hell to earth. There is nothing good about it.
Only like a hundred million people have done before in this country. Spare me.
What this is about is their hatred of America, and their need to shut their children up in Islamist madrassas that tell them how superior they are and how they have the right to murder anyone who disagrees with them.
Uh....they can go with him.
I hope they don't let him out of their sight until his ties to terrorism are completely investigated.
Evidently they conned lots of local folk, too. But since they are just a few miles away I take a very personal view of these useful idiots.
No madrassas in California, please. Now or ever.
They should invest inn one way airline tickets to the jihadistan of their choice!
I am always asking them to show me just one pic of the "Christian", with a hand grenade in one hand, a bible in the other, and a hood over his head.
You have to be a functional moron to make the comparison. We executed our single mass murderer ouserves. And have not, as far as I know, executed a single muslim or sympathizer maggot!
Wow, this was fast.
They must have had some really scary data on these two Jihadists being sent back to Packy land.
Wonder if there is/was any connection to the London bombing.
What IS the point of leaving 'there' to come 'here', then wanting to make 'here' 'there'??
Ever been to a German beer garden in Texas or a Czech bakery in Nebraska?
The problem here is of course the unwillingness to integrate, not the desire to keep something of the "old country". Earlier generations of immigrants were more than anxious for their children to become Americans, albeit without completely losing their connection to the old country. For the most part they succeeded in the former, but had less success in the latter.
German immigrants kept their Lutheran, Catholic, or Mennonite religion, in the latter case they remain in fairly isolated communities to this day. However they were not actively hostile to the rest of us, even when the "rest of us" were hostile to them. You still see people in the Amish communities of Pennsylvania and Iowa who cling to the "old ways", and in the Mennonite communities of the great plains who only accept modern practices in their work (generally farming) life, not in their personal or religious life.
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