Posted on 03/01/2005 6:09:31 AM PST by MisterRepublican
For a free people in the age of terrorism, what is the proper balance between civil liberties and national security?
This debate wracks every Western country. Looking at the United States, the “united we stand” solidarity that followed September 11, 2001, lasted just some months, after which a much deeper divide emerged as conservatives proved far more profoundly affected by the atrocities than did liberals. The result has been the growing political acrimony of the past three years.
Many examples illustrate this divide. For the most recent, take the argument concerning Ahmed Omar Abu Ali between the conservative Bush administration and its mostly liberal critics.
Born in the United States to immigrant Jordanian parents, Abu Ali, 23, was indicted last week of plotting the assassination of President George W. Bush. The prosecution asserts he was in touch with Al-Qaeda and in 2002 discussed ideas of eliminating Bush by getting “close enough to the president to shoot him on the street” or by deploying a car bomb.
Abu Ali’s biography indicates how he might have ended up as an Al-Qaeda operative.
He attended the Islamic Saudi Academy in Alexandria, Virginia, graduating in 1999 as class valedictorian. As an outpost of Saudi values on American soil, the academy enjoys Saudi government funding, is chaired by the Saudi ambassador in Washington, and boasts a curriculum imported straight from Riyadh.
Thus, the first grade teachers’ guide at the Islamic Saudi Academy instructs that Christianity and Judaism are false religions. When one realizes that the curriculum is overseen by Saleh Al-Fawzan, who in 2003 endorsed the institution of slavery, this comes as less than a grand shock.
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They hate the West. Why are they here ?
If all of today's events were happening with a Marxist Democrat in the White House, THIS WOULD NOT EVEN BE AN ISSUE in the media....liberty is not a concern of the left, unless it is needed as a political "perceived weapon" against the right....haven't we seen enough examples of this??? ...ala the ACLU, just as one radical example?
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