Visas for Student Terrorists

“The U.S. government thinks it can appease young Muslims by offering them student visas to attend American universities,” writes Ben Shapiro at TownHall.com, but, he continues, the truth is far otherwise:

Al-Talib, the UCLA Muslim student newsmagazine, is funded by the tuition money of UCLA students. A few quotes from the magazine should suffice to demonstrate just how patriotic the staff members’ American education has made them:

— “Race and racism are deeply rooted in the very foundations of American society and the collective American psyche.”

— “With the coming of death into this country, the U.S. has entered Afghanistan so as to once again rob the world of its innocent lives.”

— The magazine also calls Osama Bin-Ladin a “prominent Muslim activist” and jokes about changing the name of the magazine to “Al-Taliban.”

It is a fallacy that only those who are poor and subjugated will attack American interests… . While benefiting from the state-sponsored educational opportunities many Americans do not have, foreign students plan acts of terror.

At UCLA, many student magazine offices are lined up side by side in the same hallway, meaning that the Muslim newsmagazine is across the hall from an office I often visit. One of my friends was in the office late at night, doing homework, when she heard voices emanating from the Al-Talib office. As she relates, the conversation went as follows:

“So, I’m going to do it and then go into hiding for two years,” said a man.

“Really? Where are you going to get the weapons?” another man asked.

“Turkey.”

“You should get them from China. They’re cheaper.”

I asked my friend if she thought they were joking. “No,” she said. “I thought that at first also. But they weren’t laughing—I’m pretty sure they sounded serious.” She was still hesitant about calling the FBI, though, for fear of being labeled a racist. So I called for her. “We get these all the time,” the FBI operator said, “but we’ll be over in 15 minutes to interview her.” I stepped out of the room when the FBI came, but I found out later that they could do nothing since she hadn’t gotten a look at the men.

If the government insists on promoting American education as the solution to international hatred, more and more future terrorists will continue pouring into our universities. And the FBI won’t be able to do anything to stop them, either.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at September 19, 2002 12:44 AM | Send