Pakistani
Doctors and American Values
By Siddique Malik
President
www.spreadfreedom.com
US
In
my article “Washington’s Varying Standards
of Democracy” (Pakistan Link: June 17, 2005),
while mentioning the problem of religious extremism
in Pakistan’s medical schools, I wrote,
“Guess, where some of Pakistan’s medical
graduates end up? Right here, in America that
under their perverted imagination is a land of
‘infidels’. When these medical apprentices
finally get the green light from the US immigration
department to settle in America, as most of them
do, one wonders about their loyalty to American
values.”
This poorly phrased assertion lumps all American
doctors of Pakistani origin into one category.
Of course, this is not the reality and is not
what I intended to project. I am truly sorry for
this lapse.
What I wanted to express should have been structured
as follows:
Guess, where some of Pakistan’s medical
graduates end up? Right here, in America. Under
the perverted imagination of some of these migrants,
America is a land of ‘infidels’, and
when they finally get the green light from the
US immigration department to settle in America,
one wonders about their loyalty to the American
values.
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