Posted on 10/01/2006 11:00:48 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
For more than two years now, the U.S. government has barred me from entering the United States to pursue an academic career...
First, I was told that I could not enter the country because I had endorsed terrorism and violated the USA Patriot Act. It took a lawsuit for the government eventually to abandon this baseless accusation. Later, I reapplied for a visa, twice, only to hear nothing for more than a year. Finally, just 10 days ago, after a federal judge forced the State Department to reconsider my application, U.S. authorities offered a new rationale for turning me away: Between 1998 and 2002, I had contributed small sums of money to a French charity supporting humanitarian work in the Palestinian territories.
I am increasingly convinced that the Bush administration has barred me for a much simpler reason: It doesn't care for my political views. In recent years, I have publicly criticized U.S. policy in the Middle East, the war in Iraq, the use of torture, secret CIA prisons and other government actions that undermine fundamental civil liberties. And for many years, through my research and writing and speeches, I have called upon Muslims to better understand the principles of their own faith, and have sought to show that one can be Muslim and Western at the same time...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
PS Read my tagline.
If this terrorist supporter hates the USA so much, why does he want to come here? Hmmm?
I couldn't agree more. They don't have a right to come here, and the ones who are here should be sent home. I cannot believe how they whine when held accountable. This tells me we are doing something right.
Well, finally! Sounds like a little healthy discernment is going on.
Boo Hoo. NOT!!!
Crybaby whiner.
My experience reveals how U.S. authorities seek to suppress dissenting voices and -- by excluding people such as me from their country -- manipulate political debate in America.
Seems to me he is freely expressing himself right now. Is he not expressing all the dissent already? Or, does actually being in the country to express his dissent take precedent over US Safety?
Let him stay at Notre Dame, we have too many leftists here already.
"... It doesn't care for my political views. In recent years, I have publicly criticized U.S. policy in the Middle East, the war in Iraq, the use of torture, secret CIA prisons and other government actions that undermine fundamental civil liberties."
Give up some Muslim murderers and maybe we'll let you visit Boston or Baltimore for a couple of days.
Where's my little violin with the sad gypsy sheet music? It's like this Tariq. I don't want a terrorist scumbag like you in my country. Much in the same way you Islamofascist scumbags don't want "infidels" like me preaching Mecca. The USA is MY Mecca. Spew your Islamofascist vomit somewhere else.
I am also barred from Tunisia, Saudi Arabia and even my native Egypt.You can't help but suspect more is going on than we are reading in the WAPost.
F*ck you. You do not have a right to come here.
Uncle Sam
The picture in the Post today makes him look like a hijacker posing for a toothpaste ad.
I also think all muslim visitors to the US should have to post a $100,000 bond, redeemable upon their timely exit from the USA.
MUSLIMS ARE VIOLENT AND TROUBLESOME.
I'm surprised we're keeping him out. Democrats won't be happy.
He could become a Methodist, for example, then turn in some of his buddies and all would be forgiven.
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