Don’t perform a slight of hand here. Omar wasn’t going to Jordan. He just wanted to pass through it. But the Jordanians performed the “eeeeeevil” practice of PROFILING on him. I’m not the one here who decided that was a bad thing.

As I said, the U.S. and Jordan profile Arabs because it is necessary. This is a Middle Eastern and Muslim problem. Own it.

Hey amigo, you destroyed their country, so you should take all the iraqi refugees, right? Why we should clean your dirt?

Yeah, right. Iraq was a paradise before the U.S. Marines got there right? Here is a clue. What is the common thread between these countries? Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Lebanon, West Bank, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan (which is also generating human time-bombs). Here is a clue: It ain’t U.S. occupation, and it ain’t oil either.

Iraq’s problems would be a heck of a lot less intractable if it weren’t so unfortunate as to be abutted to a bunch of countries like Jordan and worse.

Also,if Middle Eastern tyranny and religious extremism had not become an existential threat to the U.S., Bush & Cheney (who originally got elected promising more isolationism) would have been happy to “let the Middle East be the Middle East” (dictators, human bombs, and all)…just as was U.S. policy throughout the Cold War (remember when people blamed the U.S. for 9-11 because it “abandoned” Afghanistan? Well, the U.S. didn’t abandon Iraq this time…is Bush wonderful?

I’m going back to the US on Monday, and I will be flying through Chicago and this time it might be worse as I will be arriving on an RJ flight full of Jordanians. I made sure my lay over is at least 4 hours long, and I’m hoping that the fact that it’s not a Sunday will help a bit.

And maybe the screen them extra carefully because Iraq now is the terrorsit mecca thanks to Mr.Bush and Cheney, no?

Amazing!!!!

http://pajamasmedia.com/2007/07/iraq_report.php

The following an excerpt, but read the whole thing. I think Nas should thank his lucky stars he didn’t leave for his opportunity from Iraq.

I was used to the mild discrimination the Jordanians have been practicing against Iraqis at the airport in Amman in recent years…But that’s OK and we got used to it. But recently our Jordanian brothers came up with a truly outrageous practice of discrimination against Iraqis. All disembarking Iraqi passengers now are taken to special passport counters in a hall separated from the rest of airport facilities regardless of the origin of their flights or the airlines they came aboard. Attached to this hall is what Iraqis call “the prison”.

In case you haven’t heard, Iraqi refugees stopped going to Jordan long time ago now because they know they would be turned away.
[…]
Last year, I received an admission offer from a prestigious American university to a master’s degree program in international affairs. It was a project I invested much time, hope and resources in for over a year…Long story short, the American embassy in Amman recently notified me that my visa was ready to be stamped. I bought a ticket and got on a plane on my way to Amman confident that the documents I had would grant me access to Jordan for the week I needed…I was wrong.
[…]
locked up in a crowded room and just been denied the rare opportunity I had been working on for a year, for no other crime than being Iraqi.

At the end of the day all the security measures don’t make that big of a difference in the grand scheme of things. There is always a loop hole and the sense of security is relative to your personal experiences and how much the placebo that is airport security works on you. I was driving on a highway on the way to the airport once when someone pointed out how close airplanes are. Not to give anyone any ideas but you don’t need to be in an airport to bring down a plane, nuclear plants in the southwest have horrible security compared to how much damage could happen, there is always biochemical risk, nothing major your city’s local water source could damage a few hundred thousands…it’s endless. There is no real security..step out of your security bubble!! But hey IT’s ALL RELATIVE….If you want a genuine sense of security go to Baghdad for a week then go back and live where ever you want, you will feel so safe nothing short of missle showers and piles of blood drenched bodies will scare you.

On the morning of 9/11 in Arizona i went to class and it was cancelled and a classmate who is from former tcheckoslovakia said “what’s the big deal??!! i used to walk to school with bombs going off and missles flying over my head. They cancelled a class over a plane crashing into a building thousands of miles away?? It happens everyday in some countries no one ever cares!!”

“Thanks, Islamic terrorism.”

Ignoring the dig against Muslims, I have to say: wrong. Thanks AMERICAN RESPONSE to terrorism. There is this amazing forgetfulness amongst people like Craig, who forget things like the IRA bombings, the FLQ crisis, and countless other terrorist actions that have happened world wide. Not only that, but previous actions in the US. Somehow it was only this last one, under Republican President Bush, that has necessitated this paranoid descent into a global surveillance state.

Nas, hope you had fun in Harvard Square–next time you’re there try Crazy Dough’s in the Garage or the new burrito place, Qdoba. Heaven. So good you almost forget about the assholes in charge of our “security.” I’ll look you up next time I’m running around Amman.

Here is another one”You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

And here is my favorite”Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
Dwight D. Eisenhower - [Peace]

Well, profiling sucks… but what “really bakes your noodles” is the hate attitude you see in some comments…

I think its logical to tighten secuirity and profile more people as an extra measure, the only thing the genius profilers see in common is Muslim and Arab so why not profile all…

For God’s sake listen to CRAIG, I really love this part “Mass deportations and discontinuation of entry visas for Muslims and Arabs, is my guess. And possibly passage of a law in the United States that declares Islam to be an illegal death cult.” the supreme US beings will boycott Muslims and Arabs as a next step… how can anyone argue with such stupidity, complete brain wash at FOX news…

Again, what I find completely illogical is the attitude some of people in the US have and it goes like this, CMAR II “Norwegian Lutherans haven’t shown themselves inclined to believe that blowing up themselves in restaurants is an express ticket to heaven.”

Well, why do you have to tie it to religion, i.e “Lutherans”… to compare apples to apples… try to occupy their land, divide it into tiny pieces, rape Norwegian Lutherans men and women, show it in public media like (Abu Gharib), sustain a government at the heart of Norway that steals norwegian land and export a few million refugees, insult their holy places and then lets see what they do to you… word of advice start profiling everywhere you cause death and injustice…

To make it short, WHYYY is it that US government thinks they can cause so much suffering and not be subject to a blow?! Do you really think people are punching bags, happily performing their duty in life be being punched over and over again?

I can’t find anything better to say at this moment but CRAIG’s words “This is the new normal. It’s going to be this way (or worse) forever” Actually its the old normal… What goes around comes around, right or wrong…

Believe me, I’m not with killing innocent people but it doesn’t matter if you’re with it or against it… you treat people with such arrogance it’s going to fire back one way or another… decent or not…

And by the way Mohannad, Saudi is not the origin of the takfiri thing… it started in Egypt after Nasser tortured his own people in prison… and it fired back…

Quick note to Craig:

regarding this…

Nobody is going to see this comment, because NAS is moderating me. Oh well. You can tell them your own opinions about how unfair it all is, instead, NAS, instead of them hearing the truth.

and this…

By the way, NAS… what were you doing giving a speech to Harvard students? Based on your blogging, I wouldn’t have exactly called you a friend of the USA. Maybe your bad attitude about the US was noticeable and that’s what raised red flags? I have to be honest here, I’d personally prefer it if next time you were invited to the US you could find it in yourself to “just say no”. I really don’t understand why anybody would ever visit a country they loathe, but particularly an Arab who hates the US wanting to visit the US… that can’t be a good thing, right?

First of all, I’m not moderating (profiling) you. The one comment of yours that was stuck in moderation included a vulgarity which my wordpress settings automatically moderate under the assumption its spam. I approved it when I logged on.

Second of all, my trip is really none of your business but just to clear something up…I don’t “loathe” or “hate” the US. I am critical of a great deal of things that are American, specifically its foreign policy with regards to my region as well as various parts of American culture. I am notably as critical if not more critical of a whole lot more elements of my region’s own politics and various parts of our own culture.

If you do not believe me then I recommend, in fact I urge you, to dig around in this blog and find me a post where I said I hated America.

Thanks

As I see it, there are some main countries that export terrorism, the ideology was created in saudi arabia, yet nobody in the US is willing to deal with it, why? because they are afraid of paying 10$ a gallon! On CNN yesterday they were talking about Iraq, the shiete militias want the US to leave, The sunnie “insurgents” want the US to stay-eventhoug they don’t say it publicly- Now the US is arming the sunnies, and I think as I heared yesterday the US chose to stand by the sunnies, wierd right?

“We don’t have the means to pinpoint who the terrorists are, who is supporting the terrorists openly or not so openly, who is funding them, etc. And even if we did have the ability to do that, what could we do about it? As long as they have safe havens to operate out of, there’s nothing the US can do put try to exert political pressure, which has proven to be very ineffective. ”

Exaclty, you are not GOD to tell what someone’s intentions are, if someone wnats to blow himself up he will do it, he will not tell the interrogation offiecer that he will!!Agian, be carefull of gener

“it’s a societal problem and a problem within Islam”, when those words come from a non-muslim it is understood as an insult to islam, and I feel sometimes that americans don’t understand the concept of insult to an arab or a muslim, and that why the US government are now letting arabs and muslims do the dirty work for them!!

Again, You are using the same arguments that the terrorists use, it is like saying we can’t say who is truthful and who is not so kill them all and god will decide!!And this is WRONG..I hope someday someone in charge will get it..

Another intersting observation that I am witnessing is that also there is an increase in relegious fanatasism here in the US, and it is not muslim!

The first mistake you made is sayin “islamic terrorism”, you generalized on 1.5 billion people of being killers and that is simply Worng and inaccurate, even if the polls say that 90% sypathise with terrorism, did you ask why? I am not clearing muslims or arabs, but you have to be careful when you generalize like this; it is the same argument that al-qaeda uses to explain what they do..

I don’t want to generalize. I don’t even want to have to deal with this problem, at all. I don’t think my country does, either. In my view, it’s a societal problem and a problem within Islam, and it should be handled internally by Muslims, and by the societies effected. But, that hasn’t happened up til now, and as far as I can tell, it isn’t happening now, either.

What else can my country do but generalize? We don’t have the means to pinpoint who the terrorists are, who is supporting the terrorists openly or not so openly, who is funding them, etc. And even if we did have the ability to do that, what could we do about it? As long as they have safe havens to operate out of, there’s nothing the US can do put try to exert political pressure, which has proven to be very ineffective.

What do you expect from any resistance movement whether in Iraq or elswhere,did you really believe Ahmed Chalabi when he told you,Iraqis will welcome you with sweet and flowers and maybe with some cucumber and tomatoes.
Off course,any Resistance movement would take arms to defend themselves and liberate their country,wouldn’t ya Abu ardvak do the same thing,when your country become under the most brutal and criminal occupation in history??

Because I have to say, if that’s you then I’m supremely uninterested in what you have to say about US Homeland Security. You obviously support this country’s enemies and you are just the kind of person they are suppose to be keeping OUT.

But you should replace the 2 hours with 9 hours though. My name is neither mohammad nor Ahmed and I have German passport AND I have been traveling to Palestine since I was 6 years old. Oh well:)

It will never prevent me from going though, I’m like chewing gum.lol, the more they’re interogate the more ill come to visit:D

Craig and CO. America can keep on profiling till dooms day, but what It doesnt seize to realize is that its policies are wrong and until those policies change, threat will always remain. SPOOOOKYYYYY

Just let humans live, dont act like gods and you’ll be fine, trust me;)