Posted on 05/27/2005 4:17:45 PM PDT by milestogo
US citizenship of a Muslim now meaningless
By Khalid Hasan
Washington: America has been described as “a place where citizenship by immigration now has no value and can be taken away. Muslims, and specially Pakistani Americans, who represent the highest quality of professionals that came to America as immigrants, are being insulted daily at the US airports. Jobs are being denied and other forms of discrimination are taking place everywhere.”
According to Pervaiz Lodhie, a successful Pakistani-American technology entrepreneur and community activist based in California, the Muslim community and especially Pakistani Americans will be critical in rebuilding broken bridges between the US and the rest of the world. The US administration’s “over-reaction and over-correction” to the tragedy of 9/11 may have given America some temporary military triumphs globally but major economic losses are here to stay for a long time, he warns. He believes that the real reason for America’s economic slide and the continuous weakening of the dollar are a result of post-9/11 “fortress America” mentality.
“Commerce between the rest of the world is beginning to gather steam and momentum. South Asian countries like Pakistan are attracting global visitors and making big financial deals. Innovators and entrepreneurs who used to come to America to make it technologically most advanced state are now going elsewhere,” he points out.
Lodhie argues that after 9/11, US Congress hurriedly approved the Patriot Act that carried massive flaws and a potential for generating problems. The Act, instead of helping to contain localised terrorism, has done just the opposite and spread the cancer of terrorism to the entire body, isolating America from the rest of the world. Today, additional legislation continues to be enacted in Congress, which is forcing the world Muslim community of 1.3 billion to think twice before visiting American or doing business here. “Now more than ever before, some of the most affluent Muslims and Pakistani-American businessmen, professionals, scientists, engineers and doctors are actually leaving or thinking of packing up and leaving a country they had called home for decades,” he says.
Lodhie is of the view that the rush to unilaterally invade Iraq could not have been chosen at a worse time. Today, the US manufacturing sector, he notes, is in no hurry to increase production and is holding back so that it does not end up with excess inventories. Only the service and defence sectors are helping sustain a shaky economy. The use of military force may have succeeded in creating fear in the minds of the world’s Muslims, but it has alienated them from America, he stresses. It is clear that while the world becomes smaller, its economy has gone global, and, consequently, the United States will find itself slowly becoming less and less relevant. The next generation of consumers will mostly come from China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and other countries in South Asia where most new jobs are being created. While America preaches poverty reduction, greater education and democracy in the developing world, its middle class is dwindling, the number of poor is growing, the quality of education is going down and the only beneficiaries of the system appear to be the rich and the well connected.
Man, it is so terrible here, I imagine that guy will be on the next plane to Islamabad, where he can live the good life.
So don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out of our country! Give me Asian people any day - much more hardworking, respectful, and smarter than any arab or pakistani I've ever met.....so mr. muslim, go ahead and leave our land, just leave your korans by the toilet.
Damn Lohdie. If I were you and I thought the way you do. I think I would go home.
So???
Commerce is a good thing.
Didn't I hear yesterday that the Paki Govt wants to buy 75 f-16's from the U.S., no big deal huh?
Uzma and Parvathi 2 paki medical residents at Albany for med/pedes and Maimonides for Internal med, both sent me e-mails how the Jews were responsible for 9-11. Traitorous pigs covering for their muslim brothers!!!
I fail to see the downside here, except that we let potential enemy combatants slip away temporarily.
GO HOME AND DON'T YOU COME BACK NO MORE NO MORE
Moslems certainly shouldn't expect a special exception!
This Lohdi guy is plugged into the Musharraf Regime. Petty dictator tool, see:
http://www.nchd.org.pk/phdf/directors.asp
How I see it is the US has 2 choices. The first choice I consider the most ideal. Bring the war on terror to foreign shores. That way the US can avoid turning the continent into a fortress. However, if there is no political will to fight terrorism abroad, Fortress America is the only choice.
Shuddap and get back in line, whiner. My granny in the wheel chair is ahead of you.
Methinks that this article was written by Ted Kennedy. Unilaterally? I got your "unilateral" right here, pal!
He believes that the real reason for America’s economic slide and the continuous weakening of the dollar are a result of post-9/11 “fortress America” mentality.
Well, then, in spite of your admiration for him, the man is an idiot. The economic slide is the result of the massive expenses we have to make to rid the world of scum and cockroaches, many from your country where, evidently you are unable or unwilling to clean out the stable yourselves. That, and fighting a war pretty much alone, tends to have a large negative economic effect.
Do you realize how much cheaper it would be simply to keep muslims out from any country whatsoever than saddling all American travelers with the Patriot Act and security demands? That would be my solution of choice, but our "leadership" seems oblivious to the public pressures building. If you are inconvenienced, tough noogies. Do something about the killers among you for a generation or two, then we'll talk.
Yes, this is just a horrible nation, you should leave and tell as many people as possible they shouldn't come here, to his evil, wretched place. PS I hope you get some TV time during your stopover in Mexico.
They come here and get citizenship, but they sure don't act like it. How many Islamic leaders condemned the September 11 attacks? How many are doing everything they can to bring the terrorists among them to justice? Anyone?
They may call themselves citizens, but their loyalty remains to mecca.
I have to dispute the "highest qualified immigrants" in the article. I'd put an immigrant from East Europe far ahead - plus they VALUE freedom and assimilate...
Wrap him in the hide of the swine and send him back.
As for "mending fences" with the Islamic world, that's what we have the US military for. They will be ever so much more effective than this self importance deluded Muslim.
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