Posted on 04/26/2008 6:44:18 AM PDT by Mount Athos
When he faces an immigration judge in two weeks, a popular Muslim cleric fighting deportation may have to counter claims that he confessed to being a member of a terrorist group.
According to Israeli military authorities, Imam Mohammad Qatanani admitted being a member of the militant Hamas organization during interrogation in 1993 in Israel.
The U.S. State Department includes Hamas on its list of "designated foreign terrorist organizations." Anyone identified as a member or a supporter of an organization on the list can be refused entry to the U.S., according to Lucille Cirillo, spokeswoman for U.S. Customs and Border Patrol. According to the army statement, an Israeli military court sentenced Qatanani to three months in prison and a 12-month suspended sentence, and also fined him.
Qatanani, who heads the Islamic Center of Passaic County in Paterson, faces possible deportation for not disclosing the conviction when he applied for citizenship in 1999. He is scheduled to appear before immigration Judge Alberto J. Riefkohl in Newark on May 8.
[...] Qatanani is married and has six children, three of whom were born in the U.S. and three in Jordan. The three foreign-born children would be subject to deportation along with Qatanani and his wife, Sumaia...
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Did you let jimmah back in yet?
If not, DON'T - "rules is rules"
What a poorly written headline! On first reading I thought he was confessing that Hamas was somehow linked to the Israeli authorities.
Who's he popular with?
This will make you sick
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