US citizenship of a Muslim now meaningless(Khalid Hassan whine)

US citizenship of a Muslim now meaningless

By Khalid Hasan

Washington: America has been described as “a place where citizenship by immigration now has no value and can be taken away. Muslims, and specially Pakistani Americans, who represent the highest quality of professionals that came to America as immigrants, are being insulted daily at the US airports. Jobs are being denied and other forms of discrimination are taking place everywhere.”

According to Pervaiz Lodhie, a successful Pakistani-American technology entrepreneur and community activist based in California, the Muslim community and especially Pakistani Americans will be critical in rebuilding broken bridges between the US and the rest of the world. The US administration’s “over-reaction and over-correction” to the tragedy of 9/11 may have given America some temporary military triumphs globally but major economic losses are here to stay for a long time, he warns. He believes that the real reason for America’s economic slide and the continuous weakening of the dollar are a result of post-9/11 “fortress America” mentality.