August 08, 2005
Australia may follow Britain's lead in banning an Islamist organization that claims to repudiate violence while openly campaigning for the re-establishment of a single Muslim state or caliphate.Good on you, Australia. The fight we are engaged in is an ideological fight. Those who believe in the ideology of an Islamic state ought to be barred entry into the U.S. Already, U.S. immigration law forbids naturalization of members of various Communist parties. The same should be extended to Islamist extremists. Not only should they be barred from U.S. citizenship, but they should be denied any form of legal immigration into this country. I'd say that would take care of several hundred imams from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Egypt who are fomenting hatred on U.S. soil because they have received R-1 "religious worker" visas.If the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) finds Hizb ut-Tahrir to be a terrorist threat, the group will be outlawed in the country, Prime Minister John Howard said on Monday....
Hizb ut-Tahrir is already restricted in Germany, Russia and in parts of the Middle East and Central Asia. It is not, however, on the U.S. State Department's list of foreign terrorist organizations....
Australian Hizb ut-Tahrir spokesman Wassim Doureihi told the country's Nine Network television station his party supported the anti-coalition violence in Iraq.
"If we talk about occupied land then we have to expect the people to resist the occupation," he said....
Hat tip: Drew from the Paul Revere Society.
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