Looks to me like we need to can a bunch of local employees in Egypt -- they are the bureaucratic cousins of al-Qaeda. It seems that these Muslim employees have been denying visas to Coptic Christians when they appear at the embassy for processing.

State Department officials are closely examining 15 to 20 Egyptian employees of the embassy's consular section after top officials received complaints from lawyers and human-rights groups about discriminatory behavior toward the Copts seeking visas to the United States, sources said.

Hundreds, possibly thousands, may have been wrongly denied visas, sources said.

In a recent meeting organized by Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), top State Department officials were told that these employees, who conduct prescreening interviews and translations, appear to have unusual influence over a process that is supposed to be controlled by Americans.

"This is a widespread problem that we have been aware of for some time. Now, however, there are people stepping forward and are making formal complaints," said Father Keith Roderick, head of the Coalition for the Defense of Human Rights, who attended the meeting.

Among those making complaints to the State Department is a Christian man who was seeking to donate a kidney to an uncle in New Jersey.

He says he was twice told to remove the cross he was wearing if he wanted a visa. He refused and was denied a visa.

Another is a woman who was scheduled to speak at a recent human-rights conference in Washington about what it is like to live in a Muslim-dominated country.

She claimed embassy officials demanded to see her speech.

She and two other Egyptian Copts were denied a visa while Egyptian Muslims were granted visas.

They have asked that their names not be made public for fear of retaliation in Egypt.

There have also been complaints that these employees keep posters in the embassy promoting supporters of the Hamas terror group.

Fire these terrorist-loving Islamist pigs. Heck -- fire every last Egyptian Muslim employee of the Embassy and replace them with Copts as a sign of our displeasure at the official abuse of Copts by the Egyptian government that has been copied by these swine.

And consider this frm one of the individuals who has helped document this abuse of members of a religious community that dates back to the first century of the Christian era.

"This should be a concern because if they can influence who they can keep out of the United States, they could also influence who can get in," said Caroline Doss, a Jersey City immigration lawyer who presented State Department officials with affidavits from Coptic Christian clients.

How many terrorists have they given visas? Do we have any way of finding out?

UPDATE: Great commentary on the issue at All Things Beautiful. More at DhimmiWatch, and Gates of Vienna. Also, a great older post on this issue from The Free Copts.

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