And we have to kiss their asses for oil?

We need to let those who want to live free, come here. The rest can live in their own little stupidity and ignorance.

Brave woman!

The danger of large scale immigration is that people may leave a location, but keep their habits. The same habits that made a place something they wanted to escape in the first place.

I very rarely feel empathy or sympathy for anyone. But for the truly oppressed, I do feel something.

Yet riddle me this:

Why do I want someone in my country, who wants to be free, but is not willing to fight to be so? We're free because our ancestors shed blood and had their blood shed in turn. We are the beneficiaries of their sacrifice. The justice of rebellion was spelled out in our Declaration of Independence: ...it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall...etc.

I won't say that people fleeing oppression do not take risks, however if they are unwilling to risk themselves for the future of their own country, why should I believe that, having come to mine, they will be willing to risk themselves for it if it should be in danger?

My sympathy, even where present, is mercilessly limited.

A measure of immigration is reasonable, however we should permit immigration in OUR country's interest, happily accepting the best and brightest of other countries, not every Tom, Dick, & Harry whose homeland sucks. (That opinion is mitigated somewhat, if we had a hand in making it suck by say, supporting a nasty dictator for political expediency in a region)

Yes, this woman is very brave. She's also very, very rare, and this is why Islamic Facism is rampant. Until the women of muslim countries take back their fundamental liberties and human rights, they will never be free. The women raise the children, and shape the future of these countries. If they tolerate being treated as second class citizens, and teach their daughters to do the same, how can we expect them to break out of the mental chains that bind them to the slavery that is their daily existance?
Until they all stand up to the "Religious Police", who are nothing more than sandal-wearing thugs and perverts, until Mothers cherish their sons and daughters for becoming happy, healthy adults instead of human-handgrenades, until you can tell a joke about a rabbi, a priest and an imam walking into a bar and not have to worry about 1/3 of your audience going into a violent orgy of destruction, There is not a damned thing we can do for them. It has to come from within, and I sincerely hope this woman survives to help lead the way.

The danger of large scale immigration is that people may leave a location, but keep their habits. -- Robert at May 27, 2012 1:50 PM

You're right -- I wasn't quite as eloquent on my comment as I should have been.

We should let those who want to come here, and not ghettoize themselves as has been done in many European countries.

This has happened on a limited basis in the United States with Muslims (google: "muslim cab drivers alcohol", "muslim cab drivers dogs"). But the majority try to blend in reasonably well.