Sunday, September 10, 2006

Muslims swell US population post 9/11

One cannot help but wonder whether the Muslims in this new upsurge in immigrants from Muslim countries will help swell the call for Shari'ah law in America! Are the authorities really paying attention? Their apparent insouciance is rather unsettling! Shouldn't Americans be worried? The New York Times seems to be proud of the development! In view of the fact that Muslims worldwide are waging the jihad against the US and the rest of the West, isn't it rather reckless for the authorities to go ahead with such a policy on immigration? What is even more puzzling is this: Try and immigrate to the US as a Brit, or a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant, and you'll likely be given the cold shoulder! So why this discrimination in favour of Muslims at a time when the West cannot trust them to be loyal to the Western values and ideals of tolerance and democracy and freedom?
America’s newest Muslims arrive in the afternoon crunch at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Their planes land from Dubai, Casablanca and Karachi. They stand in line, clasping documents. They emerge, sometimes hours later, steering their carts toward a flock of relatives, a stream of cabs, a new life.

This was the path for Nur Fatima, a Pakistani woman who moved to Brooklyn six months ago and promptly shed her hijab. Through the same doors walked Nora Elhainy, a Moroccan who sells electronics in Queens, and Ahmed Youssef, an Egyptian who settled in Jersey City, where he gives the call to prayer at a palatial mosque.

“I got freedom in this country,” said Ms. Fatima, 25. “Freedom of everything. Freedom of thought.”

The events of Sept. 11 transformed life for Muslims in the United States, and the flow of immigrants from countries like Egypt, Pakistan and Morocco thinned sharply.

But five years later, as the United States wrestles with questions of terrorism, civil liberties and immigration control, Muslims appear to be moving here again in surprising numbers, according to statistics collected by the Department of Homeland Security and the Census Bureau.

Immigrants from predominantly Muslim countries in the Middle East, North Africa and Asia are planting new roots in states from Virginia to Texas to California. More Muslims Arrive in U.S., After 9/11 Dip
Mark Alexander

3 comments:

Always On Watch said...

The gates are back open for Muslims to immigrate here to the States. After a few years of quelling the influx of "exchange students," we're back to the inundation. I've noticed the change here in the D.C. area.

Even worse that all the Muslim immigrants, I note the springing up of "Islamic educational centers" in our communities and at the universities; these centers are largely funded by Saudi. Lots of Halal markets have been established as well, and those markets give a clue as to the percentage of Muslims in any given area (according to Oriana Fallaci).

Interestingly, on our recent vacation to South Carolina, I didn't see a single mosque nor a single Muslim. Of course, we were in a beach area. But on our long I-95 drive to South Carolina, I noticed lots of Muslims in Virginia and North Carolina. Once we crossed the SC line, no Muzzies!

Mark said...

Always:

The gates are back open for Muslims to immigrate here to the States. After a few years of quelling the influx of "exchange students," we're back to the inundation.

It seems ludicrous to me! What the hell are the 'powers that be' thinking about?

Anonymous said...

Question is, have they begun acting upon some pre-planned front in the war on the West?
Or are they just after the good life?
It seems to me, they realise that their countries are S+*+-holes, and they have decided to come here to geta way.
Naw, I got that wrong, they export their environment with them.
For people that wash so much they sure like dirt around them.