Why is this fellow in the country?
A Palestinian who ran for the presidency of the PA from Alexandria, Virginia, where he was under house arrest, is now going to prison — in the United States. Ole Miss alumnus Abdelhaleem Ashqar was just sentenced in Chicago to 11 years for contempt of court:
A former professor accused of providing money to Hamas terrorists was sentenced Wednesday to more than 11 years in prison and fined $5,000 for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury. Abdelhaleem Ashqar…was convicted earlier this year of criminal contempt and obstruction of justice for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating the Palestinian militant movement Hamas on June 25, 2003….
Before being sentenced, Ashqar delivered a nearly two-hour passionate statement describing the suffering of Palestinian people under the Israeli occupation and saying he would rather go to prison than divulge the secrets of Palestinian militants. “The only option was to become a traitor or collaborator and that is something that I can’t do and will never do as long as I live,” he told the court.
This distinguished gentleman has been up to such antics and worse in New York, Oxford, Chicago, Alexandria, Washington and elsewhere for more than a decade. Question: why has the US judicial system been occupied with this fellow for all this time instead of deporting him many years ago? HT: LGF