‘Palestinian’ exchange student says “Death to Americans” just a joke

Posted on December 7, 2010
by creepingsharia

An update on this post. They love death more than we love life. Yep, Americans have a different sense of humor alright. Exchange student speaks out about classroom incident at Niceville High

When international exchange student Jawdat “J.D.” Kasab wrote “Death to America” on a board inside a Niceville High School classroom he had no inkling of the havoc the phrase would cause.

It wasn’t a threat. It wasn’t a promise. It was just a joke, he said.

Jawdat, a Muslim, was sent back to his home in Israel on Friday evening after officials in the exchange program he was enrolled in told him he had been dismissed over the incident, which occurred about a month earlier.

“I’m sorry that I did that,” Jawdat said during a phone call Monday from Israel. “I don’t want them to think I’m some kind of terrorist because the people who know me, they know I’m not. I’d like for them to give me another chance to come back and show them that I’m not (a terrorist).”

“We were in class, we had nothing to do, we were joking around and we wanted to do something funny,” Jawdat said. “I didn’t think something would happen.”

“It was our cultural way to denounce the violence by making jokes about it,” Jawdat wrote. “Those jokes made us feel that we fight the terrorism and the violence.”

He said the experience opened his eyes to cultural differences, though, and he stopped joking about things like terrorism after that incident.

“Americans have a different sense of humor and that kind of thing frightens them,” he said.

If he had it to do again, he said, he wouldn’t make jokes about issues that Americans, especially those in the Niceville community, take so seriously.

“I’ve learned that I have to think twice and when I’m visiting a country I should respect their community,” Jawdat said.

He and his father, Khaled Kasab Mahameed, went to the United States Embassy in Israel on Monday, and were given an appointment to speak with some-one next week.

The two spent the rest of the afternoon educating Palestinians about the persecution of the Jews during World War II. The often controversial work is part of their family’s mission to create peace in their country through educating Muslims and Arabs about the Jews.

Sure they did. What kind of jokes did they tell there?

It’s a lesson, Mahameed said, officials at AYUSA would do well to remember.

“If you want to control the subject of terrorism, what does that mean, you have to talk about it,” Mahameed said.

Mahameed said he will sue AYUSA if it doesn’t reconsider its decision about his son. Both Jawdat and his father want him to finish out the school year at Niceville High.

“AYUSA is failing,” Mahameed said. “They didn’t do their duty…to teach students about what freedom means … this is not education, this is not American culture.”

He’s right, they didn’t do their duty. They should have reported him to the police or feds and investigated him further, and should have banned him from the U.S. for life.

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