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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TideGlider who wrote (86737)	6/28/2010 5:09:10 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 224705

SaveMosabYousef NOTE to MY READERS: This posting will stay at the top of this blog for some time, so please scroll down to see my latest postings. The basic facts may be found by clicking: -Mosab Yousef is the son of one of the founders of Hamas. -While in an Israeli prison, he witnessed the horrible treatment of Palestinians by Hamas members. -When he got out of prison, someone gave him a Bible and he eventually converted to Christianity. -He worked for Israeli Intelligence as an undercover agent in Hamas. -The ISA credits him with saving many lives. -In 2007, he came to America to live. -In 2007, he requested that Homeland Security grant him asylum because he was under two sentences of death for having spied and for his conversion to Christianity. -In 2010, Homeland Security declared him a ‘security threat’. -His deportation hearing is scheduled for 30 June. -If he is returned to the Middle East, Mr. Yousef faces torture and death. Please visit our site for more details: SaveMosabYousef thecampofthesaints.wordpress.com

To: TideGlider who wrote (86737)	6/28/2010 5:09:36 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 224705

Mosab Hassan Yousef is a best-selling author who wrote "Son of Hamas" about his life as a Palestinian who became an informant for Israeli intelligence. He's probably near the top of every Islamist terror hit list, yet, incredibly enough, the U.S. may soon deport him as a terror threat. In 2007, Mr. Yousef came to the United States, where he converted to Christianity from Islam and applied for political asylum. The request was denied in February 2009, Mr. Yousef says, on grounds that he was potentially "a danger to the security of the United States" and had "engaged in terrorist activity." His case has automatically proceeded to the deportation stage, and on June 30 at 8 a.m. he will appear before Judge Rico Bartolomei in Homeland Security Immigration Court in San Diego. Homeland Security is well aware of the author's history, and in fact is using it against him. According to Mr. Yousef, a letter from Homeland Security attorney Kerri Calcador cites passages in "Son of Hamas" as evidence of his connection to terrorist leaders and suggests that the work he did for Hamas while spying for Israel provided aid to terrorists. "At a bare minimum, evidence of the respondent's transport of Hamas members to safe houses . . . indicates that the respondent provided material support to a [Tier I] terrorist organization," the U.S. lawyer wrote. But unless Ms. Calcador knows more than she's saying, this is bizarre. As a spy for Israel, Mr. Yousef had to make his colleagues believe he was a loyal member of Hamas. He used that trust to gain information that he provided to Israeli intelligence, which used it to prevent terror attacks and save lives. One of Mr. Yousef's handlers at Shin Bet confirmed his book's account to the Israeli daily Haaretz, and his father, Sheikh Hassan Yousef, has disowned him from the Israeli prison he has occupied since 2005. (See our Weekend Interview with the younger Yousef, "They Need to Be Liberated From Their God," March 6, 2010.) The problem seems to be that, under a provision of U.S. immigration law, anyone who is shown to have provided "material support" for terrorist organizations is automatically denied asylum. In the relentless way that bureaucracy works, this is being interpreted as leaving little discretion for deserving exceptions like the case of Mr. Yousef ...