Posted on 01/26/2005 4:11:37 AM PST by Convert from ECUSA
Stepping Down Tuesday, January 25, 2005 By John Gibson On Monday, John Ashcroft (search) retired and all around the world legions of horrified Ashcroft-phobes breathed a sigh of relief. After all, this was the guy who not only wanted the Patriot Act (search), he wanted it beefed up. "What?" the world squawked. "Doesn't this Ashcroft know about human rights, individual rights, the rights of minorities, the rights of Arabs who happened to be in America, the rights of Muslims who happen to be passing through America? Ashcroft trampled all these rights!" At least that's what they like to say in Euro-land. But Tuesday, in the New York Times comes the eyebrow-raising news that in Britain — where Bush and Ashcroft as especially reviled — they're kicking Muslim imams out of the country, for suggesting young Muslims go fight jihad in Iraq. It's the same in France of all places. The authorities there have warned imams: step out of line and you're gone. And they do it too.
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