DAR AL HARB - U.K.: THE U.N. SHOULD INVESTIGATE AMERICA'S IMMIGRATION POLICIES

US Muslim ban prevents scientific exchanges, warns medical journal

A leading medical journal has criticized the US for preventing Muslim academics from traveling to America to attend scientific conferences.

"If Muslim voices are prevented from speaking at international conferences, then the whole scientific community will lose out," the Lancet warned in its latest editorial.

"US scientific and medical societies that host international conferences should raise the issue with Congress and the US State Department and demand that immigration laws do not interfere with the free exchange of ideas," it said.

The warning comes after a British Muslim resident was denied the opportunity to present world-leading research into kidney failure to an American Society of Nephrology conference in Philadelphia.

Medical specialist, Tariq Ali, who has lived in Scotland for the last nine years but holds a Pakistani passport, had a visa application rejected by the US embassy, despite applying two months before the conference.

In a letter to the Lancet, consultant nephrologist Izhar Khan, from the University of Aberdeen, said that he was aware of two other Muslim researchers in the Scottish city also being prevented from presenting conference papers in the US because of visa delays.

The complaint comes as eight Muslim scholars were reported last week to have sent a petition to the South African government calling for a UN investigation into the treatment of Muslims travelling from South Africa to the US.

The academics said that they had experienced discrimination, at the hands of airport and immigration officials either en route to the US or on American soil because of their appearance.

The Lancet said that the upsurge in anti-Muslim travel incidents was a "concern for those involved in protecting human rights and for the scientific community." "Whether these researchers have been subject to extra 'administrative processing' is unclear. Either way, they have been denied the opportunity to present their scientific work to an international audience," it warned.


The medical journal that has voiced criticism and is demanding investigations is the "The Lancet"...Just like the good little dhimmis they are...

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