City liaison to Islam caught in INS snare

Muhammad Shafi is listed as a "Major Voice in Islam and Science" on the Center for Islam and Science website. My impression is that this website is a little out of the mainsteam.

From the website:

Realizing the importance of these resources for science and religion discourse in general and for Islam and science in particular, the Center for Islam and Science (CIS) has embarked upon a major undertaking: CIS plans to complete the first phase of its project on the development of web-based resources on Islam and science. The new resources are accessible at www.cis-ca.org and the site is being updated on a weekly basis; the deadline for the completion of the first phase of this two-year project is December 31, 2001. The whole project will be completed by December 31, 2002

Anis Siddiqy, 24, a cab driver from New York City, said his brother, Asad R. Siddiqy, 27, and an acquaintance, Mohammed Chafi, were in Oklahoma City seeking immigration documents for an emergency return to their Mideast homeland when they were arrested Wednesday. Siddiqy said he needed the documents to get home because of a family matter. He refused to be more specific or identify his Mideast homeland.

Siddiqy said he was arrested Wednesday at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport while trying to rent a car so he could join the others in Oklahoma City.

Earlier that day, police raided an apartment in Dallas that was being rented by two of the men. A copy of a search warrant left in the apartment showed that a black bag, containing clothing, a calendar and an address book was seized.

The items were sent to a federal lab for testing after a bomb -sniffing dog indicated they may have been exposed to chemicals used in explosives, officials said.

The man's two acquaintances were picked up Wednesday night soon after they had asked an Oklahoma Highway Patrol officer for directions. The tag number recorded from their vehicle by the trooper was allegedly traced to a blue Chevrolet Cavalier rented by one of the men from National Car Rental at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, a law enforcement official said.

Hit the road Jack and don't you come back no mo' no mo'.

He tried to tell the agents that he had lived here since 1979 and paid his taxes and supported his family and had never been in trouble with the law.

More than enough time to become an American citizen. Had he wanted too. This was just a country of convenience to him but now America has decided it's not convenient to have illegal alien Muslims hanging around.

But last April, Bayakly was told the university didn't have enough funding. So, before his H-1 visa expired, Bayakly applied for an R-1 religious worker visa. Bayakly is a founder and director of Masjid AnNoor, a small, quiet mosque near the university. He teaches the Koran and Arabic.

The old become a mullah in your spare time trick

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