Deporting Terror
Tony Blair’s emphatic decision to deport hate-filled imams and others who support terrorist activities within Britain is a welcome move. Hopefully, his proposals will turn into aggressive action toward eliminating the cancerous terror that preachers are filling young, impressionable Muslim minds in London and elsewhere.
Will the U.S. follow suit? Or, will the U.S. sit on its hands and wait until terror strikes again? President Bush has worked hard to advance the War on Terror outside our Nation in Iraq and Afghanistan. Does his volition extend to our borders as well? On illegal immigration, definitely not. Freedom of speech does not extend to hate-filled, terrorist rhetoric. Those imams who preach terror and praise suicide bombings should be deported. Next, the mosques that welcomed the hate-filled preachers should be shutdown and demolished with a wrecking crew. The message should be sent clear and with an iron fist. No toleration and no deviation. Moreover, terroristic expression in a religious setting is not the type of religious expression the Founders intended to protect when they added the First Amendment religious protections to the Constitution. Only when religion serves as a inculcator of morality and civility does it deserve constitutional protection–the exact opposite of the radical Islamicism spewing out of some imams who preach in the United States.
It is time for the Bush Administration to follow Blair’s lead and actively deport illegal aliens and legal citizens who reside in the United States and preach hatred of the United States, justifying terrorist activities and murder as the cause of Islam.