Controversial Muslim cleric caught being smuggled into U.S. over Mexico border

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Daily Mail:


U.S. border guards got a surprise when they searched a Mexican BMW and found a hardline Muslim cleric - banned from France and Canada - curled up in the boot.

Said Jaziri, who called for the death of a Danish cartoonist that drew pictures of the prophet Mohammed, was being smuggled into California when he was arrested, along with his driver Kenneth Robert Lawler.

The 43-year-old was deported from Canada to his homeland Tunisia in 2007 after it emerged he had lied on his refugee application about having served jail time in France.


Asylum: Jaziri had allegedly paid a Tijuana-based smuggling group $5,000 to get him across the border near Tecate, saying he wanted to be taken to a 'safe place anywhere in the U.S.'

His fire and brimstone sermons and rabble-rousing antics catapulted him into the public eye during his short tenure as imam at a Montreal mosque.

He branded homosexuality a disease and led protests over cartoonist Kurt Westergaard's illustrations poked fun at Islam and were published in a Danish newspaper in 2006.

He also caused anger when he campaigned for a bigger mosque to accommodate Montreal's burgeoning Muslim population.

[Pepper]

"U.S. border guards got a surprise when they searched a Mexican BMW..."

 

 

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[Chickadee]

Second news reference in a week about muslims coming in from Mexico. Anybody listening?

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Second news reference in a week about muslims coming in from Mexico. Anybody listening?

 

 

Yep, me and Pepper

[Sanguine]

I wonder why he was here? Construction job maybe? "Seeking a better life"? Wants to become an American because he admires the spirit and freedom of America? Why could it be....?

[Pepper]

Geee! Yes we are.

 

The guy was looking for his suicide handbook he had dropped.

[Geee]

Some Yahoo on Fox this morning was saying that it was no big deal-they find stuff like that all the time

 

And incidently, why are we reading about this in a British Publication?

[Pepper]

Geee!

 

The British press for all its sensationalism, covers US better than us sometimes.

 

Some Yahoo on Fox this morning was saying that it was no big deal-they find stuff like that all the time

 

And incidently, why are we reading about this in a British Publication?

[Sanguine]

 

The British press for all its sensationalism, covers US better than us sometimes.

 

 

Agreed.