How was the immigration of Mohamed Sabry Soliman supposed to benefit Americans?

Egyptian enricher Mohamed Sabry Soliman recently attacked some Jews in Boulder, Colorado who were out of step with the Free Palestine portion of the Progressive dogma.

Colorado Public Radio (1% taxpayer funded and also at risk of extinction if taxpayer funds are cut off):

Federal agents said Mohamed Sabry Soliman told police after his arrest in a Boulder firebombing that he planned his attack for a year, would do it again if he could and “wished they all were dead.”

According to a federal criminal complaint filed Monday morning, Soliman, 45, threw two lit Molotov cocktails at the gathering near the Boulder courthouse, yelling “Free Palestine!”

Soliman was born in Egypt and applied for U.S. asylum in September 2022, after arriving on a tourist visa according to federal authorities. He previously spent 17 years in Kuwait before moving to Colorado Springs three years ago, according to the state arrest paperwork.

According to Assistant Secretary Dept. of Homeland Security Tricia Mclaughlin, Soliman entered the country in August 2022 on a B2 tourism visa in California that expired in February 2023. He filed for asylum in September 2022.

Question for today: If Mohamed Sabry Soliman had committed no crimes of any kind how would his presence in the United States have made native-born Americans better off? What was the best case scenario and, therefore, the rationale for our policy? (Or maybe the answer is that we have intentionally set up an immigration policy to make ourselves worse off?)

Separately, the asylum claim is kind of interesting. Some U.S. bureaucrats apparently believed Mohamed Sabry Soliman’s assertion that Egypt was too dangerous for a human to inhabit. At the same time, the country that is too dangerous for humans to inhabit now has roughly 4X as many humans as it did in 1960.

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22 thoughts on “How was the immigration of Mohamed Sabry Soliman supposed to benefit Americans?

  1. Your racist commentary on Mohamed Soliman is reflective of the widespread terror by Jews and Zionists against Islam and it’s Peaceful adherents that has taken over America in recent years! Here is a good American standing up to stop a genocide of Peaceful Palestinians, who have been trying to kill all the evil Jews for centuries, and yet you trash this good man and his family. Equally despicable as your comments is that you actually attended MIT and yet you choose to desecrate an entire group of Peace-loving people; one might think you actually learned something there…but, clearly not. Please listen to my commencement address and try to think about your warped ideology and all the Good people it has killed over centuries.

    • This post is too dumb to be real, so it’s ironically funny. Then again, Ms Vemuri’s speech was too dumb to have come from a MIT education, yet she somehow almost (ha ha) graduated?

    • Thank you, Ms. Vemuri. We are honored to have you here. I hope that soon we can meet in one of the many beautiful Hindu temples in Gaza.

    • Dear Ms. Vemuri and Mr. Soliman, your support for Gaza is admirable. But judging by your statements, one might say you have chosen the comfort of activism over the conviction of real action. A true revolutionary, after all, would be booking a one-way ticket to Gaza, either to bravely serve as a human shield or to go out in, let’s say, a more explosive fashion using suicide bomb. Alas, Mr. Soliman, no 72 virgins await you. But no worries, 72 muscular men are awaiting you in prison.

    • George, your racism is matched only by that of Philip Greenspun’s. Racists like you are always low IQ, so it’s obvious you didn’t attend MIT like I did. One wonders if Phil really attended there. Perhaps he learned from all the evil Jews at next-door neighbor Harvard and plagiarized his PhD thesis (very common there). In any case, MIT’s wonderful president Sally Kornbluth would be ashamed to have either of you as alumni. She has done everything in her power to rid MIT of this Jewish and Zionist vermin that is perpetrating a genocide against millions of Peaceful Palestinians like Mohamed Soliman. Educate yourself by listening to her powerful presentation in front of Congress in 2023, along with that of Harvard’s inimitable Claudine Gay and UPenn’s Liz Magill.

    • Ms. Vemuri, you mustn’t be so insolent as to make fun of Dr. Greenspun’s thesis. Not only was it an original body of work in content, but very original in form as well. How many thesis contain photos of nude women and have no bibliography section? How cool is that?! IMO, the thesis was attempting to get the PhD while making fun of the degree itself. No wonder he’s so sensitive about his moniker, ‘”Dr.” Phil’.

  2. Every additional immigrant is going to buy stuff. So, technically, they’re increasing the national GDP. Presto! Immigration is “good for the economy” and immigrants “contribute to the economy” (this is actually the official position espoused by the govt of Kanada).

    • Some insightful Canadian thought criminals point out that these migrants are even bad consumers!

      No_Temperature_4206
      Oh one factor that nobody talks about is that immigrants are generally not amazing consumers (they save money to send back home to India, they vacation back in their home country not in Canada etc.). Or maybe let me rephrase my idea a bit: they are not the type of consumer that Canada actually needs. They do trigger some consumption and some growth since as soon as you land in Canada you need to buy some stuff for yourself (stupid things like a can opener) and subscribe to a bunch of services (mobile, banking etc.). But their consumption pattern does not trigger enough job creation so they take more jobs than they actually create …I believe that most jobs in Canada and US are generated by the consumption patterns of I hate to say it the white middle class …

      [–]Dapper-Slip-4093
      This needs to be the top comment. We often hear how remittances are a massive boost to the economy of some countries (Mexico and Phillipines come to mind) but some never make the logical connection that having a large indebted class of workers who have near non existent disposible income and send savings out of the country will hurt the local economy. the multiplier effect of local spending is surely reduced when local businesses are no longer patronized.

      https://old.reddit.com/r/CanadaHousing2/comments/1kngw7q/missing_middle_podcast_where_did_all_the_jobs_go/msik3pd/

  3. > Some U.S. bureaucrats apparently believed Mohamed Sabry Soliman’s assertion that Egypt was too dangerous for a human to inhabit. At the same time, the country that is too dangerous for humans to inhabit now has roughly 4X as many humans as it did in 1960.

    Dear Dr. Greenspun, as some of your very astute readers pointed how in one of your previous posts, the only reason procreation is happening (in the ‘West’) is because of animal instincts. Then why do you think a lack of habitability will determine procreation in the ‘East’?

    If anything is happening because of impulse/emotions/animal-instincts then how can it lead to a rational/sustainable outcome in the long-term, other than if the impulse/emotions/instincts are refined through culture to an extent that they match with rationality?

  4. Maybe Egypt was indeed dangerous for Mr. Soleiman, the way Red Army was dangerous for SS men. Reportedly he was a supporter of former Egyptian president Morsi and of Moslem Brotherhood, i.e. an ally of US Democrat party and a member of their big tent. Still does not make granting him a refuge a right move. After all, he already was grantedrefuge in Qatar.

  5. I don’t know why anyone in this day and age, and the fact that we live in the United States, would have a rally like this and not have a few concealed carry guys or gals around in case something like this occurred. This was not a black swan, it was utterly predictable. I am shocked this guy didn’t attract a few bullets and was able to do this for more than 15 seconds unopposed. It’s easy to get a license in Colorado. In most states anymore, you don’t even need a license.

  6. Back in the Crown Heights/Meir Kahane days the JDL had a protest chant — “Every Jew a .22!”

    My roommate’s dear old mom asked, “So what’s a .22, nu?”

    The Mostly Peaceful Palestinians have been trying to kill all of the evil Jews for centuries, without much success. But just the evil ones, not the good ones. How do they distinguish?

    Perhaps they’re as inept at genocide as the IDF, who, I am reliably informed, have been trying to exterminate every last Gazan for months now.

  7. @Philip and others: what makes you think Mr. Soliman is specifically targeting Jews? Islamic extremism, historically, has targeted all non-believers, including members of different sects within Islam itself. Even if Gaza were entirely peaceful, individuals like Mr. Soliman would likely find another excuse and soft target to go after non-believers.

    • Indeed. Sectarian violence has been the case with other Abrahamic religions like Christianity as well:

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectarian_violence_among_Christians

      If one were to paraphrase Max Weber from ‘The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism’:

      > In other words, the Protestant work ethic was an important force behind the unplanned and uncoordinated emergence of modern capitalism.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protestant_Ethic_and_the_Spirit_of_Capitalism

      One could say that, capitalism, which can be considered one of the cause of modern wars, has been influenced by an Abrahamic religion as well. We can’t call the wars explicitly religious in the traditional sense of religion, but they are indeed in some part due to a religious belief in capitalism, which in turn has been influenced by a traditional religious belief.

    • @PhilG Fan, if your point is that Christians in the 4th or even 16th century were also violent, then you make a good point. In the 21st century, the Muslim world still operates as if it were the 16th century — thus they haven’t evolved, in over 40 decades!

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