American Muslims Seething at Bush
Charles Johnson
Thu Jun 12, 2003 at 10:44 pm PDT • Views: 106
The Straits Times reports that American Muslims are threatening that they won’t vote for Bush in 2004—because they feel persecuted and anxious and filled with seething rage over the requirement for immigrants from Islamic countries to register with authorities. (Hat tip: Juliette.)
The issue which most riles Muslims and Arab-Americans is a registration programme that was introduced after the Sept 11 attacks and seen as discriminatory.
The programme requires immigrants from 25 countries to register with the authorities.
All the countries involved, with the exception of North Korea, are Islamic.
‘The programme just targets Muslim countries,’ said American Muslim Council communications director Faiz Rehman.
The official rationale for the programme is to correct visa irregularities but it is seen as stereotyping Arab and Muslim immigrants as potential terrorists.
‘It is causing anxiety because we believe it is a selective prosecution of the law,’ said Mr Nihad Awad, executive director of the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations. ‘It defies the American tradition of treating people equally before the law.’
More insidious behavior from CAIR, whose primary agenda seems to be to get the United States to completely drop its guard against the increasing likelihood of more Islamic terrorism.
Frank says: