A bestselling author and critic of Islam argues that it will take a sea change in American policy for the United States to stop blindly issuing student visas to Muslims, despite the fact some come to the U.S. to commit terrorist acts.
Recently a 20-year-old Saudi Arabian national was arrested by the FBI in Texas, suspected of planning a terrorist attack using explosive chemicals. His possible targets included the Dallas home of former President George W. Bush. Authorities say the Islamic suspect indicated in his diary that he had been plotting an attack for years and obtained a scholarship so he could come directly to the United States to carry out jihad.
Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch says in a sane society, the alleged "student" would never have been allowed into the country -- but Spencer admits he does not see any sanity on the horizon.
"People say...'You can't restrict their freedom of religion' -- [and] meanwhile they're working to restrict our freedom of religion, working to restrict our freedom of speech and freedom of conscience and so on," he points out. "But that's okay because [they argue] we can't restrict their freedom of religion."
That argument is "ridiculous," says Spencer. "In the first place, America has moved to restrict the freedom of religion of various groups in the past, notably by outlawing Mormon polygamy in the late 19th Century...and forcing the Mormons to accept that or not to be considered to be a legal group in the United States."
Consequently, the Jihad Watch leader says he does not know why it is not possible to say that a religion that espouses sharia law is also seditious and not acceptable in the United States.
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