As we solemnly observe International Day to Combat Islamophobia, let’s consider the ways in which the U.S. has been enriched by some Islamic immigrants who’ve recently made the news…
Hezbollah was designed a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. in 1997. Ayman Mohamad Ghazali was a Shiite Muslim from the Lebanon, a country in which nearly all of the Shiite Muslims polled say that they support Hezbollah. If that weren’t enough, Ayman Mohamad Ghazali had at least two brothers who were active Hezbollah fighters (CBS; see below) and “Ghazali was flagged by a government watchlist for his contact with suspected Hezbollah members, but was not said to have been a member himself” (CNN, via Wikipedia). Lebanon is one of the world’s most violent countries and 150,000 Lebanese were killed by fellow Lebanese in neighbor-to-neighbor violence during a civil war that began to wind down in 1990 (“religious diversity” was the cause, according to Wikipedia).
He was admitted to the U.S. by the Obama administration and later given citizenship by the Obama administration. Let’s suppose that Ayman Mohamad Ghazali had never loaded up a truck with explosives and tried to kill 140 preschoolers. How was his immigration to the U.S. supposed to make Americans better off? The rationale doesn’t seem to have been economic. Ayman Mohamad Ghazali’s education and job skills enabled to him to earn only $20,000 per year in 2024.
New York Times:
A Restaurant Worker Was a Quiet Presence. Then He Attacked a Synagogue.
Court records [from his wife’s divorce lawsuit] show Mr. Ghazali was earning about $20,000 a year from his job at Hamido.
CBS:
A freelance journalist working for CBS News in Lebanon learned from sources there the two brothers were both members of a Hezbollah rocket unit in southern Lebanon.
We could ask the same question about Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, who waged jihad in the same month as Ayman Mohamad Ghazali. Mohamed Bailor Jalloh killed a Black Army helicopter pilot, thus directly demonstrating the falsehood of accusations that elites are replacing American Blacks with immigrants. Mohamed Bailor Jalloh was from Sierra Leone, a country that rivals Lebanon for violence. The Sierra Leone civil war claimed up to 70,000 lives and resulted in 2.5 million people being displaced (roughly half the population at the time). Let’s supposed that he hadn’t waged jihad. How was he going to make Americans better off? Why didn’t we denaturalize and deport him after he was convicted and imprisoned for being an ISIS supporter? We thought that he was going to change his mind?
I already asked How was the immigration of Ndiaga Diagne supposed to make Americans better off?, who donned a “Property of Allah” shirt and killed Americans in Austin, Texas a couple of weeks before Ayman Mohamad Ghazali’s jihad.
Finally, we can ask about the parents of Emir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi, two U.S.-born Islamic State jihadists. What skills did the parents bring from Afghanistan and Turkey that we thought the U.S. was going to be improved via their presence?
Related:
- (from a few months ago) How was the immigration of Rahmanullah Lakanwal supposed to make Americans better off?