Posted on 09/25/2007 7:58:41 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has arrested six more suspects of Pakistani origin from Maryland on charges of money laundering.
On Thursday, 11 suspects were arrested in Maryland, including nine illegal immigrants from Pakistan. On the same day, US federal officials had indicted 39 people, including some Pakistani operators of convenience stores in Eastern Shore communities, the Dawn reported. Saifullah Ranjha, one of the defendants, was also charged with attempting to finance the al Qaeda.
Commenting on the arrests, Pakistan's Ambassador Mahmud Ali Durrani said that he did not know the details of this particular case, but similar cases in the past has shown that "American officials were often too zealous..."
These arrests have stunned Pakistani-Americans, as they fear that it would further strengthen the negative stereotyping of their community in this country.
"People are scared. It will have a very negative impact on the entire community," said Munir Ahmad, a member of the Maryland Muslim Council. "People say that they were licensed money dealers and apparently law-abiding citizens. We don't know what happened."
Pakistani-Americans are so sacred that even during Ramzan, they are not giving money charities to mosques, Irfan Malik, of the National Association of Pakistani-Americans who also lives in Maryland, said.
"There are many people who must have gone to the stores and gas stations run by the suspects. Now they fear that the FBI may knock at their doors," Malik said... According to reports, 45 suspects have been arrested so far in this sting operation in North America and Europe.
"Federal prosecutors are seeking $5.1 million in criminal forfeitures and ownership interest in two convenience stores located in Snow Hill, which belonged to a Pakistani," the daily reported...
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Hillary Hill-Raiser????
From my experiences at local convenience stores, this may be the only cleansing activities they participate in. Their clothes and armpits go unwashed for months at a time.
They're always stunned. Where's the announcement from CAIR that these innocents are the victims of profiling and islamaphobia?
They aren’t giving money to mosques because they are so sacred!
I’d be sacred too if I were living in a country and supporting terrorist
activities aimed at that country!
MV
“It will have a very negative impact on the entire community,” said Munir Ahmad, a member of the Maryland Muslim Council.”
No, Ahmad, it will have a positive effect. It will make you all think twice about what your religion teaches.
.....as they fear that it would further strengthen the negative stereotyping .....
How could that be possible? A 10 can’t be strengthened.
ping
“They’re always stunned”
Pakistani beebers set to stune : )
I just read something recently about a gigantic mosque being considered for construction in Maryland.
No connection, I’m sure. (sarcasm)
BUMP
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