Posted on 03/30/2008 11:13:08 AM PDT by radar101
PATERSON — In the weeks and months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, few Muslim leaders were more active than Imam Muhammad Qatanani in reaching out to other religious groups and law enforcement authorities with a message of openness and understanding.
His mosque, the Islamic Center of Passaic County, welcomed politicians and religious leaders, held a blood drive to aid victims of the attacks and made headlines by hosting a law enforcement recruiting drive.
All of that makes it particularly frustrating now for the 44-year-old cleric as he faces possible deportation in a dispute centering on a 1993 military court ruling in Israel that Qatanani said he was unaware of when he applied for citizenship.
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So we’re going to kick out the few decent Muslim leaders on technicalities, and keep the hate-spewing, terrorist-funding ones here?
YOU GUESSED IT!
priceless kick out one of the very very few sane looking muslims and keep importing radicals. way to go.
It’s hard not to conclude that the immigration authorities pick these unjust cases deliberately for publicity, in order to persuade people that we should grant amnesty to illegals.
They positively delight in breaking up families and threatening to deport highly qualified, well motivated people, while ignoring gang members and illegal drivers arrested six times for DUI without a driver’s license or insurance.
And of course the press is happy to play the game.
Maybe I’m giving them too much credit. It could be the stupidity of all government bureaucracies. Or maybe a little of both.
“Never attribute to evil that which is more easily explained by stupidity.”
The purpose of government is to give power to petty people who revel in writing rules.
Just for grins, the feds should run background checks on the police recruits the cleric developed in his recruitment drive.
Ping.
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