Yes. Think of ultra-liberal Al Queda terrorist Lynne Stewart.
Posted on 03/16/2006 2:18:26 PM PST by Kaslin
Leave it to the elites of academia to come up with a novel new way to address the modern terrorist movement.
Readers have probably heard by now that Yale University has added to its student body a former member of the Taliban. It's one of those stories that, no matter how many times you hear/read it, you still have to shake your head in disbelief.
It seems there's no real need for America's enemies to utilize a Trojan horse in an effort to defeat us. We've lowered our defenses and have invited our adversaries with open arms.
Yale's action is ludicrous beyond measure. But now a Republican lawmaker is aiming to aggressively investigate this farcical move by Yale officials.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, has called for an investigation into how the Taliban's former ambassador Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi was able to get a student visa into our nation and then get accepted and admitted into Yale. (Mr. Hashemi gained entry into the school despite the fact that he reportedly has only a fourth-grade education.)
Sen. Cornyn, no doubt speaking for a large majority of the American people – clear-thinking ones, at least – said Mr. Hashemi should instead be deported.
Speaking on the Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends" Thursday morning, Sen. Cornyn said, "This is someone who has apparently provided material support for a terrorist organization."
He added: "He is a member or representative of a terrorist organization and he has endorsed terrorist activity and tried to persuade others to do so. Those are grounds for deportation under the Patriot Act and the Real ID Act passed by Congress last year."
I was so pleased to hear a national leader using such strong terms in regard to this situation. Since I learned of Yale's open embrace of Mr. Hashemi, it has stuck in my craw. I simply cannot understand the reasoning that Yale officials utilized to determine that a member of the Taliban would make a good addition to the student body.
Have American liberals – locked into the gullible belief of unreserved diversity (except for conservative people of faith, of course) – truly descended to the level of cuddling with terrorists as they seek to establish their magic utopia?
What's next – a scholarship for Osama bin Laden? A research grant for Mullah Mohammad Omar?
Contemporary academia has joined hands with Hollywood in an attempt to convince our fellow citizens that our enemies simply need to have our sympathy and understanding, and then the world will be all cozy and cheery.
I'm not buying it.
Our enemies despise us for who we are and the freedoms that we cherish. They kill innocent victims – including children. They are soulless in their attempt to destroy our nation.
To coddle people like Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi is a grave mistake.
I thank God that a clear-thinking individual like Sen. Cornyn is shining a spotlight on this troubling story. The chairman of the Senate Immigration Border Security and Citizenship subcommittee, Sen. Cornyn has the credentials to make this a major issue – and it appears he will be doing just that
The answer to this rhetorical question is of course yes!
It's not too late to round him up and send him to Gitmo. Isn't this dealing with the enemy? Send a few Yale administers there, too. There must be a few enemies in the State Department to approve that visa.
Yes. Think of ultra-liberal Al Queda terrorist Lynne Stewart.
Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn has sent a letter to Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff about the decision to allow Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, the former Taliban spokesman, into the United States to become a student at Yale.
Dear Secretary Chertoff:http://corner.nationalreview.com/06_03_12_corner-archive.asp#092385I write to you regarding Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, the former Taliban spokesman currently attending Yale University on a student visa.
In 2005, Congress passed the REAL ID Act and expanded the terror-related grounds of inadmissibility. Under current law, an alien is inadmissible or removable on terror-related grounds if he is a representative of any designated or nondesignated terrorist organization. Further, an alien is inadmissible or removable if the alien endorses or espouses terrorist activity or persuades others to endorse or espouse terrorist activity or support a terrorist organization. The REAL ID is clear that the grounds of inadmissibility and removal apply regardless of when the conduct in question occurred.
Mr. Hashemi was an official spokesman for the Taliban, which gave safe haven and other material support to Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, and continued to do so even after the terrorist attacks of September 11th. Yet the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) admitted him into the United States on an F-1 student visa. I would like to know what steps the Department of Homeland Security is taking to determine whether Mr. Hashemi was properly admitted and whether the Department of Homeland Security will seek to deport Mr. Hashemi under one of the terror-related grounds of removal.
I am also concerned about the Department of Homeland Securitys role in reviewing Mr. Hashemis student visa application prior to its issuance. The report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States concluded that the key officials responsible for determining alien admissions (consular officers abroad and immigration inspectors in the United States) were not considered full partners in counterterrorism efforts prior to September 11, 2001, and as a result, opportunities to intercept the September 11 terrorists were missed.
Congress subsequently passed the Homeland Security Act, and section 428 allows DHS to assign staff to consular posts abroad to advise consular officers, review visa applications, and conduct investigations. Yet it is not clear that DHS officials were afforded an opportunity to review Mr. Hashemis visa application prior to its issuance. Please provide an update on the progress DHS is making in assigning officers to the consulate in Islamabad and whether those officers are fully integrated into the visa screening process.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
JOHN CORNYN
United States Senator
Is she still out on bail, or locked up?
bailed out immediately by millionaire liberals.
I expect Yale to be opposed to the US in the war. But what the hell is going on at Immigration? I thought they learned their lesson after being publicly humiliated for granting some of the 9/11 terrorists student visas after 9/11.
Remember, this is the same organization which will likely be passing out "non-amnesty" amnesties to more than 12 million illegal immigrants in the near future.
Meanwhile, decent Americans who want to go to school can't get in....
(it was a really tough choice...)
I'd rather kiss the frog.
I thought the FBI had to review all student applications and give the go ahead or denial of entrance.
I can. It's the sort of a bas le bourgeois statement that academia loves to transmit to the unwashed middle classes - "we'll let him in and we won't let you in because we think his message is more legitimate than yours." It really is that simple.
If someone with no ties what-so-ever to the talibon can't even come here to visit a sick child, how in the world did this guy be allowed here?
Which one is the frog?
< /Texas Pride >
Cornyn has an excellent point... there's no way an ex-Talibani could have gotten a visa without lying on the question that asks whether he was ever a member of a terror organization.
"< /Texas Pride >"
What I love most about Texas!
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