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Managing jihad in America
On the basis that he knew or should have known that the money he was raising for the Holy Land Foundation was being used to support terrorism, Abdel Jabber Hamdan has been ordered removed from the U.S. by an immigration judge. All kinds of evidence was presented showing the activities of Hamdan, who has been in custody since last summer. One’s first reaction to a story like this is to think, great, the feds are on the job, they’ve gotten another of these dangerous people out of here. But it turns out that Hamdan has been living illegally in the U.S. for 25 years (though the New York Times can’t bear to say it in so many words). Why then is it such a big deal that he is being deported? He should have been simply removed from this country as an illegal alien, without the necessity of demonstrating that he’s a threat to national security. The point is that we are not seeking to solve the terrorism and jihadism problem; we are merely managing it, by only going after the most egregious instances, each of which becomes a huge federal case, consuming vast judicial and law enforcement resources and months or years of time. This is not the way to defeat jihad in America. At a bare minimum we need to remove from this country all Moslem illegals and all Moslem resident aliens who have shown any support for jihad. The deportation of someone like Hamdan is welcome, but it is a token act, not part of a serious campaign against our enemies.
Also, he’s still not deported. His lawyers are appealing the decision. He’s been living illegally here for 25 years, yet he still has the right to an appeal. We cannot defend our country on these terms. Email entry |