Posted on 09/09/2006 2:31:23 PM PDT by tobyprissy
U.S. Schools Compete for Saudi Students
By GARANCE BURKE : Associated Press Writer Sep 9, 2006 : 2:29 am ET
MANHATTAN, Kan. -- Thousands of students from Saudi Arabia are enrolling on college campuses across the United States this semester under a new educational exchange program brokered by President Bush and Saudi King Abdullah.
The program will quintuple the number of Saudi students and scholars here by the academic year's end. And big, public universities from Florida to the Kansas plains are in a fierce competition for their tuition dollars.
The kingdom's royal family -- which is paying full scholarships for most of the 15,000 students -- says the program will help stem unrest at home by schooling the country's brightest in the American tradition. The U.S. State Department sees the exchange as a way to build ties with future Saudi leaders and young scholars at a time of unsteady relations with the Muslim world.
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As much as I like him I'm beginning to think W has been inside the beltway too long. It seems to happen to almost everyone no matter how strong they start out.
I know Bush thinks that if you just expose these beheaders to CIVILIZATION and Christianity that maybe they won't be suicide bombers.....God Bless him.....hope he's right.
I ran across this site www.islamicfinder.org that someone posted on freerepublic.
I put in my zip and there are like THREE Muzzie orgs within 30 miles!
That was news to me!
Anyway I was reading one of their websites and sent them an email (from my anonymous account of course!) responding to some of their posted material:
"Americans seem shocked that anyone would not love America”
I would disagree. I would say that "Americans are shocked that anyone who dislikes America would choose to live here."
I would remind the devote practitioners of Islam that there are many places where people with similar feelings are. And I'd suggest that they move there!
I recently did exactly that coming from the Bay Area to Colorado Springs because I found that people here think much more like I do.
As a free county no one is forcing devote Muslims to remain in America.
I am much happier now that I am around people who think like I do!
You should try it and suggest it to all you know who feel that way!
A Person Interested in Helping Muslims Find the Peace They Desire....
A take off from the Lending Tree commercial:
Schools compete - we lose
Exchange programs tend to make Students more pro-American and democratic thinking, and also generally more open-minded. I think this is a good idea.
Your thesis is highly debatable and I believe incorrect. A large number of 9/11 killers were legally here as students. Your theory sure worked on them.
You don't think they're recruiting hardcore nutcases to apply to these programs?
The oil rich Saudis are the only ones that can afford the Lib universities tuition!
Please tell me how to screen them to remove those who may be dangerous.
They are vermin. They come from a verminous, treacherous rathole of a country. And they will some day return to that cesspool and carry the message that Americans hate Muslims. If we're lucky, that message will permeate the Middle East until every Muslim that sees a buzzard's shadow will think it's the Great Satan come to set accounts straight.
Instead, under the pernicious influence of political correctness, we will welcome this desert trash into our universities and educate them in better ways to betray us.
Simple. By excluding the superset, you exclude all the subsets. Do not, under any circumstances, let Saudis, Yemenis, Syrians, Palestinians, Egyptians, Iranians, etc. into this country. Period.
Jordanians, Lebanese, Iraqis ... may be allowed entry, but only under tight supervision. Violation of any of the regulations and they are expelled immediately and permanently. Get a parking ticket and you're on your way home, Abdul.
We owe these animals nothing.
Let's see how that logic works.
Humm... they are going to Leftist Universities and the left is anti-American.
Forgive me if I don't see how that will work out in our favor!
"Please tell me how to screen them to remove those who may be dangerous."
Block every one of them.
Here's to "thread synergy"...plenty of comments on same sorry story
from another source:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1698403/posts
"Exchange programs tend to make Students more pro-American and democratic
thinking, and also generally more open-minded. I think this is a good idea."
If the program was actually a "we'll spy on them and follow any
that go bad back to some master-minds", I'd say "Go for it!"
But I'm afraid that if just 1% of them go radical while here in the USA,
we'll just have have 150 more copies of Islamic icon Qutb.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1698403/posts
See post 49 and linked article
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