FEEL SAFER? STATE DEPT. ISSUES 1,001 “DIVERSITY VISAS” TO YEMENI IMMIGRANTS
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/01/good-news-state-department-encouraging-immigration-from-yemen.html
Good news: State Department encouraging immigration from Yemen!
The more jihadis come to the U.S, you see, the more “diverse” we will be! “State Department Using ‘Diversity Visas’ to Encourage Immigration to U.S. from Terror-Ridden Yemen,” by Matt Cover for CNS News, January 5 (thanks to Weasel Zippers):
(CNSNews.com) – The State Department has awarded 1,011 special “diversity visas” allowing Yemeni nationals to immigrate to the United States since 2000, the year 17 U.S. sailors were killed when the USS Cole was attacked by terrorists in the Yemeni port of Aden.
The “diversity visas” are designed to encourage immigration from countries that do not otherwise send significant numbers of immigrants to the United States.
The State Department roster of all countries whose nationals have received “diversity visas” to immigrate to the United States in 2010, for example, shows that 2 of these immigrants will be from Luxembourg, 3 from the Solomon Islands, 4 from French Guiana, 5 from Reunion, 6 from Cape Verde, 7 from Malta, 8 from Guinea-Bissau, 9 from Comoros, 10 from Suriname–and 72 from Yemen. Nationals of the four states listed by the State Department as state sponsors of terrorism–Cuba, Iran, Sudan, and Syria–also received “diversity visas” from the State Department to immigrate to the United States in 2010. These include 98 from Syria, 298 from Cuba, 1,084 from Sudan, and 2,773 from Iran.
That the U.S. would encourage immigration from Yemen during the past decade is of interest because of the terrorist problem in that country.
Uh, yeah.
Pamela had exclusive information on this witless program back in April 2009.
and Hugh Fitzgerald adds this comment
Hugh
Is it possible that no one in Congress has the wit to raise hell about this? Is it possible that American citizens haven’t the collective wit to do so, and to extend their fury to all the easy admissions of people whose presence in this country necessarily increases the headache, and the terrific expense, of monitoring them, and others, out of well-justified worries about national security?
“Well-justified” you ask?
If someone identifies himself as a Muslim, he is thereby saying that he believes that the Qur’an is the Uncreated and Immutable and Literal Word of God. You and I and the government and the government’s security services are “well-justified” in believing that, and not in convincing ourselves to believe something else. So what is in the Qur’an? Let’s read it, let’s re-read it, let’s read the Muslim (and useful non-Muslim) commentaries on it — Robert Spencer has provided a published guide, first put up at JW, sura by sura, for the many who can use, and profit, from such guidance — and then let’s see what we can ascribe to these Muslim immigrants, can reasonably assume that they believe.
And the same goes for the figure of Muhammad, the Perfect Man as Muslims see him. What did Muhammad say? What did he do? Let’s find out, by reading those Hadith that Muslims regard as the most authentic, and let’s read with care the biography of Muhammad, to find out what he did that are part of that life of the for-all-time to-be-emulated Perfect Man (al-insan al-kamil).
And once we have done that, we are in a position to judge whether or not it is wise to continue to allow Muslims to enter this country.
Since almost everyone who comes regularly to this site is now in such a position, I will ask you: does the policy described above make sense? Has it won hearts and minds in Yemen? Can you think of any reason why it may not have, and never could have, won hearts and minds of Muslims in Yemen, or Muslims anywhere else, but has only increased, and can only increase, the national security threat to this country?
Can you figure out what makes those who presume to protect us so endlessly and so continuously and so unembarrasedly stupid?
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