Britain’s ‘rape jihad’ Scandal Exposes Flaws in America’s Immigration Policies: System Needs Reform to Stop Extremists While Welcoming Those Who Embrace American Values
Britain’s ‘rape jihad’ scandal exposes flaws in America’s immigration policies:
By now, I expect, you’re at least aware of the scandal rocking the United Kingdom. Over decades, thousands of young British girls were systematically raped and, in some cases, killed by immigrant gangs.
Police, politicians, social workers, and journalists refused to hold the criminals to account. Some helped cover up the crimes.
This scandal has received greatly increased attention only since New Year’s Day, when Elon Musk began furiously tweeting about it.
The members of the gangs have been identified as predominately Muslim men of Pakistani origin.
Brits infected by what Mr. Musk calls “the woke virus,” and fearful of being accused of “racism” and “Islamophobia,” refused to crack down on these vile criminals.
The British media spoke of “Asian grooming gangs” — as if Japanese hairdressers might be implicated.
Honest commentators, such as Ayaan Hirsi Ali — a Somalia-born American citizen, author, and human rights activist — make clear that imams in British mosques teach that Islamic scripture authorizes Muslim men to sexually exploit infidel women.
It goes without saying that Muslim men of Pakistani origin who were not involved in these crimes bear no responsibility for what National Review contributing editor Andrew C. McCarthy has called the “rape jihad.”
But this scandal should raise questions about how Britain and other Western countries have subverted legal immigration and law enforcement to further woke visions of “diversity” and “multiculturalism.”
President Biden encouraged millions of foreigners to cross illegally and unvetted into the United States. “We’re trying to make it easier for people to get here, opening up the capacity to get here,” he acknowledged two years ago.
Americans reelected former President Donald Trump in large measure to end this tsunami of illegal immigration.
If Mr. Trump accomplishes that, can we also be confident that our legal visa and immigration system will strengthen America’s national security? There’s cause for skepticism.
Let me stress that most would-be immigrants from Muslim countries are not enemies of America. Indeed, some of the most ardent and courageous opponents of terrorism and jihadism I know came to America from Muslim countries.
But there is now a growing cohort of Islamic supremacists in American communities and especially on American university campuses.
This has been going on since the early 1990s. Omar Abdel Rahman, known as the “Blind Sheikh,” was an Egyptian cleric who had issued a fatwa, a religious opinion, calling for the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.
Though he was on the U.S. State Department’s terrorism watchlist, he was permitted to legally enter and work in the U.S., where he developed a reputation as a great scholar of Islamic jurisprudence.
In 1995, he was convicted in connection with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Mr. McCarthy led the prosecution and detailed the history in his excellent book, “Willful Blindness: A Memoir of Jihad.” —>READ MORE HERE
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