The Offensive Cartoons?
To put things a bit in perspective some 50+ languages are spoken among our students at Brooklyn College, representing all continents but Antarctica and our students getting along fine with each other despite conflicts in their home countries.
This anecdote comes from last spring or the one before. I was heading home after a heavy teaching day when I heard the chatter of young women's voices. A group of about half a dozen passed me by -- obviously all young Muslim women students. What was so typical and lovely was that they exemplified the full range of dress from traditional long skirts and scarves to typical American teen jeans and T-shirts with some mixed versions in between -- scarves with jeans.
As has always been the American tradition, we have had the transition by generations from the old ways to the new. What has been so sad since 9/11 has been the brutal oppression even in Brooklyn of our Muslims. I do in effect paralegal immigration and naturalization advising with our leading figure in this field, Allan Wernick. We fought like mad to keep with us one of our students whose family had been denied refugee status post 9/11. A 4'11" 'terrorist' from Bangledesh who loves pizza and rock and who was one of our super star pre-med. students. Her parents were both doctors (mother had just passed her U.S. boards) and the two younger kids Americans by birth. We won the battle to extend her studies with the help of our two Senators, two Congressmen (Rangel included) about 25 letters of support from out CUNY chancellor, president of Brooklyn College, faculty friends from her college and school years at our super school, Stuyvesant, which overlooked the World Trade Center, the attack upon which had horrified her.
http://www.youthcomm.org/NYC%20Features/Nov2001/NYC-2001-11-15.htm
However, Nee realized that her family was still at risk -- another comparable CCNY student family had been picked up and separated in different jails incommunicado and we have since learned that we had a Brooklyn Gulag where hundreds had been similarly dumped and brutalized by the guards -- one of whom went on the Abu Graib where he did similar for which he was prosecuted. I can give sources for two news reports on this -- one a year and a half ago by one of our Pulizer Prize winning faculty, Paul Moses, and one a couple of weeks ago in the NY Times:
http://www.bloggernews.net/2006/01/brooklyn-gulag-vicims-return-to-sue.html
http://www.bloggernews.net/showstory.asp?page=blognews/stories/UP0000624.txt
All across Amerika at $70.00 a day such people have been secretely dumped and held in county jails -- mainly in the South where they need the money. You will find a few articles here and there reporting this travesty. These people are dismissed as 'illegal aliens'. In fact many are quite legitimate people who have been singled out when visas to work or study have lapsed -- often because of delays by our underfunded agencies which must renew same each year -- we have periodic battles to save both our students and faculty, so I know whereof I speak from personal experience. See Allan Wernick with whom I work on such cases:
http://www.nydailynews.com/city_life/advice/wernick/
Such is a typical problem situation that is exploited by the Bush incompetents.
We no longer honor the First and Fourth Amendments in the U.S. The news that should be reported such as I have cited here is blocked by our corporate media. We are brutally killing Muslims over there (Fallusha et al) and abusing them here in the U.S. Insulting their prophet in violation of the long standing rule against "graven images" deriving from the matrix of the Ten Commandments is a last straw.
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"A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy)
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Ed Kent 718-951-5324 (voice mail only) [blind copies]
http://BlogByEdKent.blogspot.com/
http://www.bloggernews.net
This anecdote comes from last spring or the one before. I was heading home after a heavy teaching day when I heard the chatter of young women's voices. A group of about half a dozen passed me by -- obviously all young Muslim women students. What was so typical and lovely was that they exemplified the full range of dress from traditional long skirts and scarves to typical American teen jeans and T-shirts with some mixed versions in between -- scarves with jeans.
As has always been the American tradition, we have had the transition by generations from the old ways to the new. What has been so sad since 9/11 has been the brutal oppression even in Brooklyn of our Muslims. I do in effect paralegal immigration and naturalization advising with our leading figure in this field, Allan Wernick. We fought like mad to keep with us one of our students whose family had been denied refugee status post 9/11. A 4'11" 'terrorist' from Bangledesh who loves pizza and rock and who was one of our super star pre-med. students. Her parents were both doctors (mother had just passed her U.S. boards) and the two younger kids Americans by birth. We won the battle to extend her studies with the help of our two Senators, two Congressmen (Rangel included) about 25 letters of support from out CUNY chancellor, president of Brooklyn College, faculty friends from her college and school years at our super school, Stuyvesant, which overlooked the World Trade Center, the attack upon which had horrified her.
http://www.youthcomm.org/NYC%20Features/Nov2001/NYC-2001-11-15.htm
However, Nee realized that her family was still at risk -- another comparable CCNY student family had been picked up and separated in different jails incommunicado and we have since learned that we had a Brooklyn Gulag where hundreds had been similarly dumped and brutalized by the guards -- one of whom went on the Abu Graib where he did similar for which he was prosecuted. I can give sources for two news reports on this -- one a year and a half ago by one of our Pulizer Prize winning faculty, Paul Moses, and one a couple of weeks ago in the NY Times:
http://www.bloggernews.net/2006/01/brooklyn-gulag-vicims-return-to-sue.html
http://www.bloggernews.net/showstory.asp?page=blognews/stories/UP0000624.txt
All across Amerika at $70.00 a day such people have been secretely dumped and held in county jails -- mainly in the South where they need the money. You will find a few articles here and there reporting this travesty. These people are dismissed as 'illegal aliens'. In fact many are quite legitimate people who have been singled out when visas to work or study have lapsed -- often because of delays by our underfunded agencies which must renew same each year -- we have periodic battles to save both our students and faculty, so I know whereof I speak from personal experience. See Allan Wernick with whom I work on such cases:
http://www.nydailynews.com/city_life/advice/wernick/
Such is a typical problem situation that is exploited by the Bush incompetents.
We no longer honor the First and Fourth Amendments in the U.S. The news that should be reported such as I have cited here is blocked by our corporate media. We are brutally killing Muslims over there (Fallusha et al) and abusing them here in the U.S. Insulting their prophet in violation of the long standing rule against "graven images" deriving from the matrix of the Ten Commandments is a last straw.
--
"A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy)
--
Ed Kent 718-951-5324 (voice mail only) [blind copies]
http://BlogByEdKent.blogspot.com/
http://www.bloggernews.net
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