From the San Francisco Chronicle, with thanks to Skeet Street.
A Muslim cleric with ties to Lodi men caught up in an FBI terrorism investigation agreed Friday to be deported to his native Pakistan along with his son rather than fight government immigration charges.Mohammad Adil Khan, 47, and his son, Mohammad Hassan Adil, 19, had been accused of overstaying their visas, and Adil Khan was charged with coming to the United States under false pretenses...
Another Muslim cleric from Lodi embroiled in the FBI probe, Shabbir Ahmed, is fighting deportation.
Federal authorities said little about the deal in which Adil Khan and his son agreed to deportation, other than a statement by San Francisco branch chief counsel Ronald Le Fevre of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
"ICE will not allow foreign nationals to use the United States as a haven for activities that potentially put our nation or other nations at risk,'' Le Fevre said...
Adil Khan has a reputation for being a charismatic speaker and prolific fund-raiser in the Muslim community. He made several visits to the United States in the 1990s to raise money for a madrassa, or religious school, in Pakistan called Jamia Farooqia University, which his father co-founded and where Ahmed was a former student of Adil Khan's...
At one point, however, Adil Khan and Ahmed were both imams at the Lodi Muslim Mosque, where Umer and Hamid Hayat [the accused father-son jihadis] worshiped...
Government lawyers pointed out that the Jamia Farooqia madrassa, where Ahmed taught for 11 years after studying under Adil Khan, had produced a number of students who went to Afghanistan to fight against the Soviet occupation and later on behalf of the fundamentalist Taliban.Ahmed said he had been too preoccupied with his studies to have any interest in going to Afghanistan. But he acknowledged that Adil Khan had, for a time, been a close friend of a Taliban leader.
Deportation back to whatever welcome these hell-holes provide is by far the best outcome. Forget Guantanamo Bay and American prisons; send them back across the seas. It will do them good. Let them see Islam in action yet again. Let them worry, if they do worry, the locals. And if they do worry those locals, the locals will know what to do, far more expeditiously and swiftly than the courteous old-school common-law system, furrowing its Learned-Hand eyebrows, would ever show itself capable.
amazing!
may their example be followed by all of like background, ambition, goals, ...
Ted Koppel featured Lodi on Nightline Wednesday night. It was very sympathetic to the islamic community.
http://www.lodinews.com/articles/2005/07/14/terrorism/1_nightline_050714.txt
Federal authorities said little about the deal...
Hopefully, that deal included a lot of useful information, in exchange for not throwing both of their lying asses in jail before deporting them.
"Ted Koppel"
One would like to like Ted Koppel, but he is so consistently uninformed, his well-modulated voice always disappointing with the banality of his expression, and he has done nothing memorable, has not tried to instruct us, nor even to instruct himself, in what Islam teaches, and what attitudes and atmospherics arise naturally from those teachings. He reeks of complacency.
What do you think he reads, when he is golfing down in Sanibel Island or somewhere else? Since he has been working in television since the age of 23, and never permitted himself the kind of leisure to read or perhaps ever acquired the habit of reading books other than things on the level of Kissinger's Memoirs, and other Book-0f-the-Month Club Books, he may, like Tom Friedman, simply not realize that the matter of Islam requires a bit more work than he is used to putting in.
Think back to those 444 days that shook Ted Koppel's world, and made him famous: the Tehran androlepsy (there, now I've used it four times and I really think it is time for you to look it up, don't you?). Did he ever explain what the Ayatollah Khomeini was all about? Did he once refer to any of the writings of the Ayatollah Khomeini? Did he tell us anything at all about recent Iranian history, or who the Shi'a were, or why the Ayatollah had lowered the marriageable age of girls to nine? No, the somber portentous "America Held Hostage" theme played, and we were treated to some idiotic details about the day, negotiations with Christopher, or what Carter or Brzezinski or Senor Fulano de Tal had to say about things, and assorted gravel-voiced wise men, of the Kissinger sort, would come on to dispense the kind of wisdom that Wall Street firms were paying them half-a-million dollars a year to dispense to the assorted high-rollers who like to think of themselves as "concerned about world affairs" because they attend Council-on-Foreign-Relations dos and subscribe to Foreign Affairs magazine. We listened to the program for 444 days. And we learned absolutely nothing about Iran. It was a feat of pure genius -- and the God of Vacuity must have been well-pleased indeed. And that's what made Ted Koppel.
His daughter Andrea is distinctly unsympathetic on the subject of Israel. She does not know much about Middle Eastern history, nor about Islam, but is prepared to make pronouncements and strike attitudes. So many people are. One wonders what Koppel's parents, refugees from the Nazis, make -- if they are still alive -- of this particular unsympathetic granddaughter.
It has been years since anyone thoughtful turned to the "thoughtful" Ted Koppel for anything at all. He irks, because he should be better. So much money to play with, so much power, so much conceivable instruction and enlightenment. Instead, banality beyond banality.
Oh well. The dogs bark, the caravan moves on.
ANDROLEPSY
ANDROLEPSY. The taking by one nation of the citizens or subjects of another,in order to compel the latter to do justice to the former. Wolff. Sec. 1164;in order to compel the latter to do justice to the former. Wolff. Sec. 1164;Molloy, de Jure Mar. 26.Molloy, de Jure Mar. 26.
I learned something today.
"Deportation back to whatever welcome these hell-holes provide is by far the best outcome. Forget Guantanamo Bay and American prisons; send them back across the seas."
I agree with Hugh on this point, but we need to go further.
Pakistani illegal immigrants can come into my country and my neighborhood for $25,000/person.
We need a freeze on our borders for the time being.
http://muslimsonline.com/msa-nyc/resources/masajid/
Could someone please click on the above link and tell me if you find anything odd about this page, most notably, the number of mosques opened in July, August and September of 96.
Found this while I was looking for info on the Islamic Center of Queens, NY. A suspected terrorist supposedly made a call to someone at this mosque.