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  abunoor 3:36 pm on January 20, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: ACLU (6), Hillary Clinton (10), Ideological Exclusion, immigration, tariq ramadan (16)

  The ban on Tariq Ramadan traveling to the U.S. has been lifted.
  

  Ramadan chooses to be very gracious, basically crediting the decision to the difference between the Bush administration and the Obama administration. I guess I should follow his lead, but part of me cannot help but seeing a role in this decision for the administration being afraid of a legal victory on behalf of Ramadan which would establish a precedent against ideological exclusion. The actual decision released over Hillary Clinton’s signature stresses the discretionary nature of this decision by the U.S. government and makes abundant clear that it cannot be used as a precedent by anyone else.

  There was never any good reason to bar Tariq Ramadan, and I look forward to his coming to the U.S. Before the original visa denial, he was set to teach at Notre Dame. I haven’t heard any word on whether he has any plans currently (I would assume he doesn’t yet).

   

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  johnpi 12:10 am on December 28, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: British Muslims (42), Extremism (167), immigrants (16), immigration, right-wing morons (71), Terrorism (399), UK (121), uk muslims (17), US immigration (11), Visa Waiver program

  US Islamophobe Debbie Schlussel is really targeting UK Muslims when she calls for the end of the Visa Waiver program.

  Abdulmutallab–from a prominent, wealthy, religious Muslim Nigerian family–was recruited to become a jihadist, not in his native Nigeria, but in Great Britain, where he spent three years as a student at University College London.

  It’s yet another reason why the Visa Waiver program (granting certain designated Western countries an exemption from the usually more stringent visa process to travel to the U.S.) is a huge mistake. We know Muslims come to the U.S. from various assorted Western Visa Waiver countries, and even though Abdulmutallab did not, he was recruited and radicalized in a Visa Waiver Country, Britain, where British nationals are also recruited for Islamic terrorism.

   
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  johnpi 11:40 pm on December 20, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: civil liberties (37), civil rights (42), deportation (5), discrimination (27), discrimination against Muslims (14), immigrant persecution (12), immigration, Muslim persecution (19), persecution (17), profiling (10), racial profiling (19), religious discrimination (14), religious persecution (19), religious profiling (13), US immigration (11), US Persecution of Muslims (2)

  A US appeals court has ruled that Muslims and Arab non-citizens have no right “to be free of selective enforcement of the immigration laws based on national origin, race, or religion….”

  The plaintiffs initiated the lawsuit in 2002 on behalf of Arab and Muslim aliens who were held on immigration violations following the Sept. 11 terror attacks and subjected to abuse, mistreatment and lengthy detentions.

  The abuse included beatings, strip searches and sleep deprivation. The allegations have been substantiated by two reports by the Office of the Inspector General.

  Five of the men settled with the government in November. A sixth plaintiff withdrew his claims several years ago.

  Rachel Meeropol of the Center for Constitutional Rights served as lead counsel for the plaintiffs. She called Friday’s ruling a “mixed bag.”

  “By dismissing [the equal protection] claim, the circuit has endorsed using religion and ethnicity as a proxy for suspicion of terrorist activity. That’s the part of the decision we’re disappointed in,” Meeropol said.

  Case ruling here.

  (via)

   
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  johnpi 3:36 pm on December 16, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: burka (15), burqa (9), citizenship (11), france (71), immigration

  French immigration minister wants full-body Muslim veil to be grounds for denying citizenship, visas.

  Besson said he believed a formal ban on veils that cover the face and body seemed to him “unavoidable,” with a ban in public services as a minimum step.

  Whether such veils are banned or not, he said he intends to personally move forward to ensure that women wearing such veils and seeking French nationality or residence cards are denied.

  “I want the wearing of the full veil to be systematically considered as proof of insufficient integration into French society, creating an obstacle to gaining (French) nationality,” he said.

  He said he would advise prefects, the highest state representative in the various French regions, that the wearing of such veils is a motive for not delivering 10-year residence cards.

   
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  johnpi 8:11 am on November 6, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: immigration, Israel (352), Mohammad Qatanani (2), Palestine-Israel conflict in America (7), US immigration (11)

  Deportation case of N.J. Muslim cleric is sent back to immigration judge for rehearing.

  That would be the case of Palestinian Imam Mohammad Qatanani, whose application for a green card was stymied by questionable information provide by Israeli authorities that he had been arrested and convicted there. The imam maintains that he was detained by the Israelis, but never arrested and had never been the subject of a trial.

   
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  johnpi 1:00 pm on October 29, 2009 | 10 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: assimilation (10), australia (24), immigration, integration (15), right-wing (96)

  Australian lawmaker calls for debate on Muslim immigration.

  Sydney – Member of Parliament Kevin Andrews on Thursday called for a national debate on whether Muslim immigration to Australia should be curbed. Andrews, immigration minister in the conservative government defeated two years ago, said Muslims were the first migrant group not to assimilate and to congregate in certain suburbs of big cities.

  “To have a concentration of one ethnic or one particular group that remains in an enclave for a long period of time is not good,” Andrews told local radio. “You should be able to talk about it … it’s ridiculous if you can’t talk about any subject.”

  Andrews was commenting on a column in The Australian newspaper arguing that large numbers of Muslim migrants posed a security risk because some would be drawn to terrorism.

  Andrews’ call for debate was immediately stomped on by Greens leader Bob Brown.

  “We are seeing a far-right, pretty disgusting point of view,” he said.

   
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  johnpi 6:01 pm on October 21, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: green cards, immigration, marriage (62)

  The ever-vigilant paranoids at Refugee Resettlement Watch also missed this story:

  Congress passed a bill Tuesday that would make widows and widowers of U.S. citizens eligible for green cards even if their spouses died before their applications were approved.

  The measure, part of the more than $40-billion Homeland Security appropriations bill, ends the “widow penalty,” which required couples to be married for two years before the surviving spouse would be eligible to apply for residency. Now, surviving spouses can apply for a green card for themselves and their children regardless of when the U.S. citizen died or how long they were married.

  As another blogger wrote:

  Obviously this means that a brown wave of Salma Hayeks will flood our country, seduce our eligible men (and Mark Sanford), marry them and later kill them in their sleep (probably using trained scorpions) in order to conquer America.

   
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  johnpi 5:36 am on October 21, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Chicago (2), FBI (46), immigration, law enforcement raids on employers, US immigration (11)

  A hardline Israeli newspaper is reporting on a US raid on a “Muslim meatpacking plant” near Chicago. No other media outlets that provide copy to the wire services are reporting on it apparently.

  Approximately 100 armed federal agents, backed by a helicopter, 50 vehicles and sharpshooters, raided a Muslim meatpacking plant earlier this week but remain silent about the secret operation. Only half a dozen people work at the plant.

  No one was arrested, but one eyewitness said the huge police force indicates that the raid may involve criminal activity other than hiring illegal immigrants. Terror-related activity has not been ruled, but officials have refused all comment on the case.

  Chicago news sources said the plant’s owner, a resident of Chicago, was arrested at his home and that documents were seized from the plant.
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  The Muslim meatpacking plant is operated by First World Management in Kinsman, Illinois, where government workers involved in the raid did not explain why Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents joined immigration officers in the raid.

  Several officers pulled their gun as agents surrounded an unidentified man in Middle Eastern garb. The plant processes and packs goat meat according to Muslim laws. A Muslim prayer room in the plant also was raided.

  I find it interesting that an Israel newspaper that calls itself “The voice of the settlers” is doing original reporting on domestic events in the US.

   
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  johnpi 6:30 pm on October 12, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: immigrant persecution (12), immigrants (16), immigration, US census, US immigration (11)

  Glenn Beck launched into a long rant the other night about ‘illegal immigrants’ – which he conflates with all non-citizens – and how the US Census bureau shouldn’t count them.

  …his argument — that we shouldn’t be counting people who can’t vote — doesn’t merely cut against the undocumented. It cuts against all immigrants — who, by definition, are also already non-citizens.

  Moreover, the Census Bureau isn’t charged with accurately counting the number of citizens living within the United States — it’s charged with counting the entire population.
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  Beck would have the Census omit not just unauthorized migrants, but also lawful permanent residents, humanitarian migrants, and foreign-born residents here legally.

  Of course, he’s arguing for this because he believes counting the undocumented will give the eeeeevil SEIU more power in its quest for total global domination or something like that. You have to watch the video to get it all, and even then it never quite holds together, much less make sense.

  Video at link above.

   
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  thabet 12:20 am on October 4, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: eu (27), europe (82), immigration, libya (21)

  Immigrants in Italy ’struggle’.

  I suppose the EU will just have to pay even more money to Libya (some of which will be ploughed back into Europe anyway) in order to deal with immigrants crossing the Mediterranean. The advantage for the EU is, of course, the Libyans won’t have the sort of internal pressure European nations might in dealing with immigrants:

  HRW said migrants testified to brutal beatings and overcrowded and unsanitary conditions in Libyan camps. One migrant said a companion was shot dead by Libyans when their boat was intercepted leaving the North African coast.

   
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  johnpi 4:46 pm on September 28, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: American Islamophobia (9), immigration, islamophobia (228), nativism (5), Republican party (13), Republicans (61), texas (12), US conservatives (35)

  Texas: 11th Congressional District candidate calls for end to Muslim immigration.

  Big Country congressional hopeful Canyon Clowdus wants no more Muslim immigration to America. But he doesn’t want to stop at the stance he outlined to radical blog “Dr. Bulldog and Ronin,” which endorses him for 11th Congressional District representative.

  “It’s not just them,” the conservative Republican told a reporter Sunday night. “They need to check all immigrants. They used to assimilate.”

  Instead, immigrants retain their beliefs, hurting America, Clowdus, a Marble Falls businessman, said.

  Clowdus wants to halt Muslim immigration to stop what the blog termed a “stealth Jihad” and “creeping sharia” to replace the Constitution with Islamic religious law.

  Clowdus’ motto: “Let’s put God back in government!”

  Clowdus’ campaign website seems to say that George Washington wasn’t very bright, but he was a good man, and it’s the same diff’ for Clowdus.

  George Washington was not elected our first president because he was a “mental giant” as Thomas Jefferson or Ben Franklin were considered to be, but because he was a “moral giant“. Many of our elected officials simply do not want to act on the taxpayers best interest in fear of making enemies, in turn, not getting re-elected. We need leaders in Washington that will fight without concern of re-election or any loss to themselves. Fight for what is right…fight as “moral giants“ for OUR great nation.

   
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  thabet 5:25 am on September 7, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: citizenship (11), Identity (75), immigration, journalism (44), media (408), Multiculturalism (44), race (80), united kingdom (733)

  Very good article on the way immigration is covered by the press in the UK.

   
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  thabet 4:51 am on September 2, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: catholics (4), christopher caldwell (5), eurabia (22), eurabianism (13), europe (82), immigration, media (408), Multiculturalism (44), muslims (347), right-wing (96)

  I would never have guessed Damian Thompson is a big fan of Christopher Caldwell.

   
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  thabet 4:57 am on August 29, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: class (23), demographics (35), immigration, media (408), racism (201), united kingdom (733)

  Amanda Platell’s dog whistle is working overtime:

  Soaring immigration – and a migrant baby boom – has sent Britain’s population rocketing over the 61 million mark.

  [...]

  Sadly, though, it is not the indigenous middle-class, hard-working, tax-paying population that’s exploding.

  According to statistics, our latest baby boom is partly down to high birth rates among immigrants, and partly due to rising numbers of younger mothers.

  Amanda Platell was born in Perth… not the one in Scotland but the one thousands of miles away in Australia. She has a funny foreign accent (a weird combination of Australian and middle class English found in a London suburb). She is (I think) an immigrant to the UK…

  So, basically what Platell means by immigrant is nigger, Paki, wog, darkie, blackie, etc.

  At least Melanie McDonagh in The Daily Telegraph was honest about her dislike of Somali and ‘lower class’ mothers.

  (Via Angry Mob.)

   
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  thabet 1:16 am on August 24, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: books (112), eurabia (22), eurabianism (13), europe (82), immigration, muslims (347)

  Fouad Ajami gets a free lesson from a reader of The New York Times.

   
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  thabet 11:55 pm on August 17, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: anti-Muslim fearmongering (41), anti-Muslim propaganda (27), hijra, immigration, islamophobia (228), jafis (22), racism (201)

  A new word for the jafis to throw around: hijra.

  Janet Levy has a review, “The Hijra,” in the American Thinker [sic] of a new book, Modern Day Trojan Horse: The Islamic Doctrine of Immigration by colleagues of Geert Wilders, Sam Solomon and Elias Al Maqdisi.

  As Levy points out the thesis of the Solomon Al Magdisi slim volume is that Hijra-the Mecca to Medina migration of Mohammed the origin myth of Islam in the Quran – is all about the spread of Islamization and Western accommodation.

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  That ‘better life’ migration or Hijra by Muslim here in America is simply setting the stage for the enablers of the world wide Caliphate, the Muslim Brotherhood fronts, identified in the federal Holy Land Foundation trial as unindicted co-conspirators, to achieve their objective of Sharia supplanting our Constitution.

  ‘Hijra’ seems a perfect target of abuse for these morons: it ties together their hatred of Muslims, immigrants, and multiculturalism.

  (Via an emailer.)

   
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  thabet 5:58 am on August 16, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: immigration, united states (578)

  It’s not just overpaid Bollywood actors who are stopped by American immigration:

  Reporting from Washington – Six days ago, a Pakistani journalist on the run from Taliban militants landed in the United States holding a valuable key to sanctuary: a visa granting him the right to work for the Voice of America radio service for one year.

  But today Rahman Bunairee is in an immigration lockup in Virginia after being detained upon his arrival at Dulles International Airport.

   
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  thabet 7:40 am on August 4, 2009 | 15 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: citizenship (11), Identity (75), immigration, new labour (33), politics (766), race (80), united kingdon

  Phil Woolas confirms he is an odious prick:

  Asked about this on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, [Phil] Woolas [the immigration minister] said: “We think it’s right to say if we are asking the new citizen, as incidentally other countries around the world do, to have an oath of allegiance to that country, that it’s right to try to define in some objective terms what that means. And clearly an acceptance of the democratic rule of law and the principle behind that we think is important and we think it’s fair to ask that.”

  But, when it was pointed out that demonstrating was not illegal, Woolas suggested that an applicant could also lose points not just for breaking the law – but also for engaging in certain activities that were legal.

  Sarah Montague, the presenter, asked: “Are you effectively saying to people who want to have a British passport, ‘You can have one, and when you’ve got one you can demonstrate as much as you like, but until then don’t'?”

  Woolas replied: “In essence, yes. In essence we are saying that the test that applies to the citizen should be broader than the test that applies to the person who wants to be a citizen. I think that’s a fair point of view, to say that if you want to come to our country and settle, you should show that adherence.”

  I cannot see this actually being made into law; this is simply another pathetic attempt by Woolas to stir a ‘national debate’ on immigration and try and gain a few votes for Labour at a time when the far right are active. As Labour’s attack dog on issues related to race, immigration and asylum, Woolas has a history of this sort of nationalistic bluster. Even when his ministerial brief was limited to the environment, he was passing comments on the sexual habits of Muslims.

  And it goes without saying that a New Labour minister should think twice before lecturing others on “adherence” to the “democratic rule of law and the principle behind that”, given the government’s abysmal record on that front.

  Still, Woolas has some way to go before he can compete with the likes of The Daily Wail reporter James Slack and the army of gormless Wail readers who moan about immigration into Britain… while residing in Australia (or Spain, or Thailand, or the UAE).

   
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  razib, murtad fitri 2:40 am on July 16, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: immigration

  Continental divide separates Africans, African-Americans.

   
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  thabet 12:18 am on June 26, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: bloggers (59), blogging (50), immigration, integration (15), islamophobia (228), media (408), Multiculturalism (44), right-wing (96), united kingdom (733)

  Alex Massie writes a thinly-veiled attack on his co-blogger, Mad Mel.

   
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  thabet 4:28 am on June 17, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: fascism (10), immigration, northern ireland (2), racism (201)

  Modern Britain:

  Racists who forced Romanians to flee their homes threatened to cut a baby’s throat, it emerged today.

  Over 100 men, women and children were this morning taken to the Ozone complex in Belfast after they spent the night in a church hall following sustained attacks by a racist mob claiming to be from the fascist group Combat 18

  The families, who took refuge in a church hall, said they are too frightened to return to their homes in south Belfast, with some just wanting to return to Romania as soon as possible.

   
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  thabet 8:13 am on May 30, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: immigration, politics (766), right-wing (96), united kingdom (733)

  Right-wing dumbness:

  And after all, don’t the people who live in a state have any right to decide who they offer to share it with ? Do Palestinians not have a right ? Or are they racist bigots if they oppose Israeli settlements on the West Bank ? Did the Native Americans, the Aboriginal Australians, not have a right ? Or does a piece of land belong to whoever can maintain themselves on it by whatever means and whoever the previous inhabitants were ? Doesn’t sound very liberal to me.

  Yes, people moving through controlled borders is exactly like armed, violent, bloody, expansionism which results in death and displacement of the previous inhabitants.

   
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  johnpi 6:08 pm on May 28, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: immigrants (16), immigration, interracial marriage (3), marriage (62), race (80), US immigration (11)

  Multiracial Americans have become the fastest growing demographic group.

  The number of multiracial people rose 3.4 percent last year to about 5.2 million, according to the latest census estimates. First given the option in 2000, Americans who check more than one box for race on census surveys have jumped by 33 percent and now make up 5 percent of the minority population — with millions more believed to be uncounted.

  Population figures as of July 2008 show that California, Texas, New York and Florida had the most multiracial people, due partly to higher numbers of second- and later-generation immigrants who are more likely to “marry out.” ….

  About 1 in 13 marriages are mixed race, with the most prevalent being white-Hispanic, white-American Indian and white-Asian.

   
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  thabet 8:56 am on May 26, 2009 | 14 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: greece (3), immigration, Superior Sophisticated Civilisation Watch (25)

  More violence against Muslim immigrants in Greece.

   
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  thabet 2:21 pm on May 25, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: ed husain (9), foreign policy (237), immigration, mi5 (11), Pakistan (570), united kingdom (733)

  Is Ed Husain suggesting that rather than recruiting British Muslims to act as informants, the security services concentrate on recruitung (or bribing, or blackmailing) British-based Muslims (in his example, Pakistanis)?

  Pakistani students at UK universities can help their country and Britain by being vigilant against extremists and terrorists. Britain’s intelligence services repeatedly complain about the lack of co-operation from British-born Pakistanis, as well as those from abroad. To save lives is a religious and ethical duty. Working with the authorities to tackle violent extremism is the best illustration of goodwill towards Britain.

   
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  thabet 1:51 am on May 23, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: greece (3), immigration, protest (26)

  Hundreds of Muslims protested in Greece against the alleged defacement of a Qur’an owned by an Iraqi immigrant.

   
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  thabet 3:48 pm on May 22, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: churnalism (2), immigration, media (408), politics (766), united kingdom (733)

  More tabloid tripe.

   
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  thabet 6:02 am on May 10, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: europe (82), greece (3), immigration, Superior Sophisticated Civilisation Watch (25)

  Sophisticated Europe:
  

  Far-right protesters tried to storm an old courthouse in central Athens Saturday where hundreds of illegal immigrants have lived for months amid piles of fetid rubbish and human waste without electricity, running water or sanitation [...] The attack followed an anti-immigrant demonstration by the far-right Chrisi Avgi, or Golden Dawn group. Scores of protesters waved banners reading “foreigners means crime” and “we have become foreigners in our own country.”

  Estimates of Greece’s population breakdown for anyone interested.

   
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  thabet 8:31 pm on April 29, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: culture (72), foreign policy (237), immigration, liberal interventionism (49), Multiculturalism (44), politics (766), Society (40), united states (578)

  I found this interesting Scott McConnell article (via Daniel Larison) on the role ethnic groups play in determining America’s foreign policy:

  On the basis of what is visible thus far, today’s and tomorrow’s Mexican-, Asian-, and Arab-Americans will more resemble the Swedes, Germans, and Irish of a century ago than the Poles, Balts, and Cubans of the Cold War era.

  The views of the Americans posting on here would be welcome.

   
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  razib, murtad fitri 1:26 pm on April 21, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: immigration, Statistics (35)

  post on survey data on which nations support open immigration. iran doesn’t.