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2010-05-08 India-Pakistan

Pakistanis pose as Indians after NY bomb scare

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Posted by john frum 2010-05-08 07:27|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Paks playing the victim card. Nothing new

Posted by Frank G 2010-05-08 09:44|| 2010-05-08 09:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Not one word indicating the actions of Pakistani terrorists are wrong. Not one word indicating that Pakistanis need to speak out against their islamist brother, to turn in their shrieking nutbars. Not one indication they will take action to prevent future incidents. Police the speakers at their mosques. Turn in those they KNOW are violence-prone. if they are that embarrased and ashamed then bloodywell do something about it. Until then, we want nothing to do with them. As their failed businesses and employment difficulties demonstrate. Pretending they are Indian only confirms the perfidity, duplicitousness and dishonour of Pakistanis.

STFU.

Posted by Swanimote 2010-05-08 09:48|| 2010-05-08 09:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Farhan said the store had subsequently apologized and the case appeared to be one of an overzealous manager rather than store policy.

Actually, the store manager did the right thing. He should report everyone who buys large amounts of fertilizer without an obvious reason.

Posted by Frozen Al 2010-05-08 11:50|| 2010-05-08 11:50|| Front Page Top

#4 How many Americans can even tell the difference between an Indian and a Pakistani just by looking at them?

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2010-05-08 13:55|| 2010-05-08 13:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Where are they doing the posing?

Posted by JohnQC 2010-05-08 14:23|| 2010-05-08 14:23|| Front Page Top

#6 It often is difficult to tell Indians from Indians. North of India natives tend to look somewhat different than south of India natives.

More than 100 businesses along Coney Island Avenue have closed due to a 30 percent drop in business since 2001, a merchants' association said.

I wonder who many non-Pakistani businesses failed in this country during the same period?

Posted by JohnQC 2010-05-08 14:27|| 2010-05-08 14:27|| Front Page Top

#7 Let our trained MonkeyMen decide who is who. Sahib! that one! checker nao!

Posted by Shipman 2010-05-08 14:51|| 2010-05-08 14:51|| Front Page Top

#8 The FBI also arrested many undocumented workers in the neighborhood, leading to a wave of deportations, and residents would call law enforcement to make claims against their neighbors, including many false claims, Choudhri said.

I remember that. After 9/11 a law was passed requiring all Muslim men to register with the government. The Pakistanis were stacked up at the border fleeing to Canada or back to Pakistan, because so many were in America illegally. Mostly they'd come as students, and then stayed on, either marrying fellow students or importing wives from back home.

NPR had a series of reports at the time, of the hardship these people faced, uprooted from home and business, facing an uncertain future, their children knowing nothing but America, how were they to cope in the Third World conditions of the Olde Countrie? Not to mention those who'd been caught by immigration and were impounded, awaiting deportation in barracks filled with old army bunkbeds and little else, filling their despairing days with playing cards and tattered paperback novels passed from hand to hand as cases were resolved, always with summary deportation, while their desperate families tried wile after wile in an attempt to find a way to persuade someone to let them stay here.

I always wondered how many plots were disrupted by the response to the order of registration...

Posted by trailing wife 2010-05-08 19:13|| 2010-05-08 19:13|| Front Page Top

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