'Son of Hamas' hearing in San Diego on Wednesday
'Son of Hamas' Mosab Hassan Yousef, on the right in the picture above with his Shin Bet handler Gonen ben Itzhak, appears for a deportation hearing in San Diego on Wednesday.The very idea that Yousef may be deported from the US is beyond absurd. National Review gets it right:
In 2007, he came to the U.S. and applied for asylum. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service denied his application in 2009, on the grounds that he provided material support to a terrorist organization. This is madness.Someone on Twitter actually asked me why Israel doesn't give Yousef asylum. I said it was Yousef's choice to live in the US. If you had the choice between living 9 miles or 9,000 miles away from people who really, really want to kill you (as opposed to all other people they'd like to kill at random), which would you choose? The answer seems obvious to me.
The department bases its argument on Yousef’s autobiography, Son of Hamas. In it, he reports that when Shin Bet agents showed him pictures of Hamas members who were suspected of involvement in a March 2001 bombing, he told the agents that he’d driven some of the members to safehouses. Of course, this is the kind of thing that spies do routinely — assist the enemy when asked, especially in small ways, so as not to blow their cover. Common sense indicates that our material-support rules don’t apply to support that’s provided — at the behest of a U.S. ally — within a broader attempt to bring down a terrorist organization.
If Yousef returns to the West Bank, he risks execution. Obviously, DHS doesn’t believe he’s a threat, or it would detain him; in fact, the FBI has advised DHS that Yousef is not a threat. He has converted to Christianity and has become vocal critic of Islam.
Yousef has a hearing tomorrow at which a judge will decide on his appeal for asylum. This shouldn’t be a complicated call for the judge or anyone else — Yousef deserves asylum. If our immigration system can’t distinguish between him and a true terrorist, it’s more witless and perverse than even we imagined.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:39 AM
2 Comments:
I understand. But I could offer him citizenship of UK. I would be willing to marry him!This is NOT a joke.
This man is a hero and the islamo-nazis are fighting through "lawfare" to get him out of the US!
With obamas assistance, of course!
The deportation hearing was dismissed by the US Government! One wonders why it was allowed to get as far as it did.
What could go wrong indeed
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