Thanks to Clair Lopez and a certain other who will go nameless (you know who you are, but that’s what matters most), this story is getting some legs. The Tundra Tabloids’ good friend and counterjihad colleague, Elisabeth, was treated rather unfairly at the immigration desk upon her entry to Miami, the TT posted on it earlier. Clair Lopez adds her own thoughts.
NOTE: That’s the TT’s right shoulder in the picture.
In addition to querying Wolff about her speech and the conference, the ICE officers wanted to know why she was traveling alone, where her husband was, how she earned a living, and most inappropriate of all, whether she were a “practicing Christian.” A Dutch colleague of Wolff’s, also to speak at the conference, was similarly subjected to lengthy and hostile questioning by ICE officials, both in Amsterdam and at JFK Airport upon arrival in the U.S. After looking at the text of his speech, one of the ICE officials in Amsterdam flatly told the Dutch citizen that his activism against shariah Islam “is discrimination.”
Both Wolff and her colleague ultimately were released and permitted to continue their travel in the U.S., but were sent off with the explicit warning to Wolff that she should “tone down the rhetoric.”
While ICE and other Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials have the legal duty to scrutinize would-be visitors to the U.S. at points of entry, what appears to be gratuitous harassment on grounds apparently related to issues of free speech is inappropriate. Wolff was convicted in Austria under laws that are incompatible with the right to free speech enshrined in the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment. No American could ever be convicted in the U.S. for “denigration of the teachings of a legally recognized religion.” Belief systems, Ideology, and religious teachings are not off-limits from criticism in this country. Not yet anyway.
‘After looking at the text of his speech, one of the ICE officials in Amsterdam flatly told the Dutch citizen that his activism against shariah Islam “is discrimination.”’
Too right it’s discrimination – rational discrimination based on a rational assessment of the facts. How is one to distinguish the good from the bad, the right from the wrong, the moral from the immoral, but by a process of rational discrimination or judgement? Judge and be prepared to be judged!
The ICE officials by asserting that the Dutch citizen’s activism against shariah was “discrimination” (in the unjustly prejudicial sense of the word) clearly showed a woeful absence of rational discrimination.
I wonder what the “Muhammad coefficient” was among the officers who harrassed Ms. Wolf and her associate?
‘I wonder what the “Muhammad coefficient” was among the officers who harrassed Ms. Wolf and her associate?’
Negligible or non-existent as a dire consequence of political correctness.
I hope some newly elected members of the House start an investigation into why she was hassled.