Obama: Wants to settle Muslims freed from Gitmo in American communities

[LadyEagle]

April 24, 2009
Obama Administration wants to settle Muslims freed from Gitmo in American communities to "set an example, helping to persuade other nations to accept Guantanamo detainees too"

This could end up being a very costly lab experiment. More on this story:

"U.S. plans to accept several Chinese Muslims from Guantanamo: The Uighurs would be the first detainees from the prison to settle in America. Challenges are expected from China and within the U.S.," by Julian E. Barnes in the Los Angeles Times, April 24 (thanks to Randall):
Reporting from Washington -- The Obama administration is preparing to admit into the United States as many as seven Chinese Muslims who have been imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay in the first release of any of the detainees into this country, according to current and former U.S. officials.

Their release is seen as a crucial step to plans, announced by President Obama during his first week in office, to close the prison and relocate the detainees. Administration officials also believe that settling some of them in American communities will set an example, helping to persuade other nations to accept Guantanamo detainees too.

But the decision to release the Chinese Muslims, known as Uighurs, is not final and faces challenges from within the government, as well as likely public opposition. Among government agencies, the Homeland Security Department has registered concerns about the plan.

The move would also incense Chinese officials, who consider the Uighurs domestic terrorists and want those held at Guantanamo handed over for investigation. U.S. officials no longer consider the Chinese Muslims to be enemy combatants and fear they would be mistreated in China.

This is all about protecting them, you see.

There are 17 Uighurs (pronounced WEE-gers) at Guantanamo. A U.S. official familiar with the discussions over their release said that as many as seven could be resettled in the U.S., possibly in two or more small groups.
Officials have not said where in the United States they might live. But many Uighur immigrants from China live in Washington's Virginia suburbs, and advocates have urged that the detainees be resettled near people who speak their language and are familiar with their customs. [...]

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2009/04/025825print.html

 

[OldRegular]

So again I wonder: Is obama a closet Muslim?

 

[donnA]

well, why not send them home to their families?
unless he needs muslim terrorists in this country.

 

[blackbird]

I posted this in another thread in this forum

But think about it!!!!!

In the late 1800's---------the US government ran the American Indians onto reservations--------stretched "invisible" barbed wire around them---told them to stay put

For what??? What'd they run the Indians onto reservations for??? For the inablity to contribute to society??? For wanting to be free to roam the land unhindered???

In the late 1900's---the same US government began running muslims into the classroom---to educate them---to teach them to teach American children in public schools----to teach them to become engineers and chemists------some were even taught to fly airplanes---not Cessina's or Piper's--------but Boeings and Lockheed's---experts in demolitions

All Crazy Horse wanted was his freedom----freedom to be who he was---to be bound by no one

It seems that this Jihad thing-----is a pursuit to rob freedoms-----this time-------American freedoms!!! It won't be long before they will be running me and you onto reservations----just like they did Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull!!!! You watch and see!!!! Except this time------the reservation will not be any specific piece of property like they gave the Choctaws, Apaches, and Sioux-------but the reservations will be the habitat you are hunkered in now----your backyard and nothing beyond that!!!!! Oh---and let us make sure you do not have anything that resembles Winchester or Colt!!!!! Watch and see!!!

I'm tellin' ya--------if Crazy Horse and Custer were alive today-----and saw what we're seeing before our very eyes----they'd put more tobacco in that Peace Pipe-------they'd inhale a little deeper and more often and when it was over---they'd join forces and squash . . . !!!!!