NOT RECOMMENDED FOR FULL-TEXT PUBLICATION File Name: 04a0155n.06 Filed: December 15, 2004 No. 03-3693 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT
P ARVEEN B EGUM , Petitioner, Petition for Review of an v. Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals J OHN A SHCROFT , U.S. A TTORNEY G ENERAL , Respondent

. ______________________________/ Before: KENNEDY, MARTIN, and MOORE, Circuit Judges Kennedy, J. Parveen Begum petitions this court for review of the order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) denying her request for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture. We have jurisdiction to hear this petition pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality Act. 8 U.S.C. § 1252. BACKGROUND Petitioner is a citizen of Bangladesh who entered the United States on June 25, 1997 as a non-immigrant exchange visitor. She had permission to remain in the United States until August 31, 1997, but she remained beyond that time. The fo rmer Immigration and Naturalization Service (“INS”) began removal proceedings pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(1)(B), on December 4, 1999. Petitioner conced ed removability, but requested asylum on February 2, 1999. At her asylum hearing, petitioner discussed seve ral incidents that she alleged proved a wellfounded fear of persecution that w ould permit her asylum in the Unite d States. Petitioner is a doctor.2 She alleges that her work on women’s health issues, especially her work on birth control and abortion rights, angered an Islamist group in Ba ngladesh known as the Moul abadi. She further alleges three specific incidents that she argues constitute persecution. First, petitioner described an incident in wh ich several men from the Moulabadi surrounded her house and threatened to kill her. However, petitioner never saw the men as her brother was able to talk with the men and get them to disperse before petitioner arrived at home. Therefore, everything petitioner knew about the incident came from her brother. Petitioner’s brother’s affidavit was an exhibit. It said nothing about the threat to kill her. Second, petitioner describes an incident where the rickshaw in which she and a friend were riding was rammed from behind by another “baby taxi ” (a motorized rickshaw). Petitioner and her friend were injured. Petitioner alleges that the men in the baby taxi were part of the Moulabadi. Finally, in 1998, after petitioner came to the United States, petitioner alleges that the Moulabadi destroyed part of a boundary wall being built around her family house in Bangladesh. Petitioner’s brother complained to the police. The police were apparently investigating the destruction of the wall at the time of the heari ng. Petitioner however, indicated that the government, in general, does nothing to stop these types of incidents of intimidation. The immigration judge found most of petitioner’s te stimony, and that of the rest of her witnesses, incredible. In particular, he questione d petitioner’s version of events with respect to all of the specific incidents of past persecution. He also questioned whether the specific incidents, if true, constituted mere harassment rather than pers ecution. As a result of these concerns, he denied her the requested relief. The Board of Immigr ation Appeals affirmed the immigration judge’s decision without issuing an opinion.3 ANALYSIS We review the factual findings underlying the immigration judge’s denial of asylum with great deference, and we uphold them on review unless “any reasonable adjudicator would be compelled to conclude to the contrary.” 8 U.S.C. § 1252(b)(4)(B). In order to reverse, we must find that “the evidence not only supports a contrary conclusion, but indeed compels it.” Klawitter v.
I.N.S. , 970 F.2d 149, 152 (6 thCir. 1992) (italics in original). Petitioner’s entire argument on appeal, in a cursory fashion, invites us to reexamine the evidence presented at the hearing and find that it amounts to past persecution. From that past persecution, petitioner argues, we must find a presumption that petitioner would suffer future persecution. We cannot do as petitioner requests. Because the immigration judge’s findings are due great deference, we cannot say that the evidence on the record compels a different finding than the one he made. We cannot find that petitioner’s evidence establishes past persecuti on given the many problems the immigration judge identified with the credibility of petitioner’s evidence. Furthermore, we do not disagree with the immigration judge that even if petitioner’s evidence is true, the incidents in question amount to harassment, but do not rise to the level of persecution. Mikhailevitch v. I.N.S. , 146 F.3d 384, 389-90 (6 thCir. 1998). We cannot find a history of past persecution in this case on the record before us. CONCLUSION For the foregoing reasons, we AFFIRM the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals and DISMISS the petition for review.