"Obama administration officials . . . struggled to explain why the Egyptian Parliament member, Hani Nour Eldin, got a visa, citing privacy rules and declining to say whether he had been granted a waiver from the ban on such visitors or whether his affiliation simply escaped notice.
Pressed by reporters after the visa quickly became a Congressional controversy, a State Department spokeswoman, Victoria J. Nuland, said Mr. Eldin had been judged to pose no threat to the United States."
No threat to the US? The spiritual leader of Gamaa al-Islamiyya, Omar Abdel-Rahman, known as "The Blind Sheikh," is currently serving a life sentence for issuing a fatwa, i.e. Islamic law ruling, calling for terrorist acts against US civilian targets in New York and New Jersey, including the United Nations, the Lincoln and Holland tunnels, the George Washington Bridge and a federal building housing the FBI. His followers were involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Another of his fatwas called for the murder of American Jews.
The Times article suggests that there might be a precedent for the Obama administration allowing Hani Nour Eldin into the US, given that Israeli government officials, who fought the British prior to 1948, were allowed entry into the US:
"An earlier precedent might be the Zionist militants who took part in terrorist acts against the British before the creation of the State of Israel, then became leading politicians who were warmly welcomed in Washington."
This is a precedent? Actions taken by persons such as Yitzhak Rabin against British forces seeking to bar entry of Jewish refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe to the British Mandate for Palestine can be compared with plots to destroy US civilian targets, entailing the deaths of thousands of innocent US civilians?
I would very much like to know whether this argument was suggested to the author of this article by an Obama administration official.
Mr. Shane, would you care to comment?
The Times is evil. Echte Stuermer.
ReplyDelete"This is a precedent? Actions taken by persons such as Yitzhak Rabin against British forces seeking to bar entry of Jewish refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe to the British Mandate for Palestine ..."
After reading you post, I was thinking about the nature of antisemitism. The so called "leftists" who talk so eagerly about "American empire" conveniently forget about the nature of British presence in the area (and everyone else). I know them too well to expect them to actually feel some compassion for survivors of ultimate horror ... who had nowhere to go ... unlike their torturers, let alone to know the historical facts of the Jewish land.
Correction:
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"forget about the nature of British presence in the area (and EVERYWHERE else).
Morsi's campaign included a promise to free the blind sheikh. Connect the dots.
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