Muslim immigrant in U.S. calls on West to deport all Muslims

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Muslim immigrant in U.S. calls on West to deport all Muslims

Khudayr Taher, an Iraqi Shi'ite writer living in the U.S., is a man of refreshing honesty and unanswerable logic. Below is his statement at Elaph, a liberal, Arab language website. It is so remarkable that it may seem like a hoax, but it was translated and posted at MEMRI, and they are not known for gullibility. Also, if Taher had been looking to fool the public, it seems likely that he would have written his comment in English so as to assure a wider readership. Yes, it's possible that the statement is a fraud and that it was posted in Arabic to make it seem genuine. However, my own feeling, based on the statement's sincere tone, is that it's real. I think that Taher simply wrote down his honest, unadorned thoughts about what the Western countries must do if they are to rid themselves of the terrorist threat--thoughts that any sensible person would have whose mind was not clouded by liberalism or twisted by hatred of the West. Here is what he said:

Countries have the right to defend themselves and assure their citizens' safety from terrorism. Likewise, it is clear that the source of the terrorist crimes in Europe and America is the Muslims who live in these countries. The security services cannot know people's intentions and sort out who is the noble immigrant and who is a terrorist criminal. [But] wherever there are Muslims, their presence has produced crimes of terrorism and murder.
Among those Muslims in Europe and America who do not practice terrorism, most of them do not have loyalty and sincere attachment to these countries that have offered them all of the means of life in dignity--housing, studies, work, and citizenship...
The legitimate question is this: Since the security services cannot sort out the good immigrant from the bad terrorist... why don't these countries deport all Muslims, of all races, from Europe and America, and [thus] find rest from the danger of terrorism, and protect their peoples?
I, as an Arab Muslim immigrant, sincerely call on the countries of Europe and America to deport all Muslims from their territories--including myself, despite my love and my sincere attachment to the U.S.

Now, Khudayr (I hope he doesn't mind if I call him by his first name, but my feeling of friendship for him overflows) has gone much farther in this area than I've ever gone. While I've called for a graduated process of forced and voluntary departures, starting with the deportation of non-citizen sharia supporters, then moving up to deporting naturalized citizen sharia supporters, and, if necessary, deporting native-born sharia supporters, and also closing down mosques so as to encourage other Muslims to leave the U.S. on their own, Khudayr cuts right through all those steps and simply says that the West should deport ALL Muslims, period. He would thus have us put into practice, without shillyshallying, my long-time idea that "significant numbers of Muslims do not belong in any Western society, period." An intriguing question is: how many Islamo-critical conservatives in America and Britain will quote Khudayr's statement? Will it be too strong for them? Will they find it embarrassing? What an interesting world this is.

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