Maqqa wrote on Dec 24^th, 2015 at 12:35am:



Every country does have the right to control the flow of visitors.

Air travel is getting more difficult for all of us.

Maybe the US immigration people ha e decided not to wait for the election and implement The Donald's policy now.
Wouldn't that be good.

PS what are the closet burqa wearers doing up this early?

Fuzzball wrote on Dec 24^th, 2015 at 7:53am:


Frankly, we have no idea why they were stopped. They may have suspected a breach in Visa conditions, could be anything.

Trump or no Trump - it's been happening on the quiet for some time now.

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Soren wrote on Dec 24^th, 2015 at 3:54pm:

That is, until the laziness of religious profiling results in a blond hair, blue eyed Scandinavian convert to Islam and a terrorist arrives in Australia and is able to get through our security and then launches an attack... All the while you were looking for what you believed to be a Muslim..

And that's why I said RELIGIOUS profiling, not racial profiling, Mr Expert-my-arse.
Mohammed, peace be on him, what??

Just to add some realism.

This "UK Family" was 2 men and 9 children.

One of these children was 19 years old and they had already been placed on a watch list by the state of Israel.

Really sounds like a nice blonde haired, 2 children, mum and dad family doesn't it?

Obama, too, spoke up, using a speech after the California attacks to say, “If we’re to succeed in defeating terrorism we must enlist Muslim communities as some of our strongest allies, rather than push them away through suspicion and hate.”

But canceling Muslim Brits’ travel plans at the very last minute risks having exactly that effect.

Take the case of Amjal Masroor, a British imam who has spoken forcefully against the Islamic State (Isis) and about the need to stop young western Muslims from the illusion that they are accomplishing anything by going to fight with the group. “Isis and groups like that don’t represent Islam, they don’t represent humanity, and they’re part of the biggest problem that we face in the 21st century world,” Masroor told Sky News in an interview last year.

Around the same time that the Mahmood family was denied entry to America, so was Masroor, following almost exactly the same pattern, having been granted permission to travel that was then revoked just before boarding.

“[The] USA has the right to issue and revoke visa – I fully understand that,” Masroor wrote on Facebook after the incident. “However not forwarding any reasons infuriates ordinary people. It does not win the hearts and minds of people, it turns them off. I am amazed how irrational these processes are but does USA care about what you and I think?”

If so-called ordinary Muslims – a tasteless phrase meaning the bulk of the world’s 1.6 billion adherents who never think of taking up violence in the name of their faith – can’t be treated like everyone else by American authorities in every manner of interaction, the answer is a resounding no.

............................. any justification for prohibiting their entry..........