Case Name: Basel ABDULNOUR, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2006-04-17
Citations: 177 F. App'x 597
Docket Number: No. 04-76022
Parties: Basel ABDULNOUR, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: HAWKINS, MCKEOWN, and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 177
Pages: 597–598

Head Matter:
Basel ABDULNOUR, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 04-76022.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted April 5, 2006.
Decided April 17, 2006.
Prashanthi Rangan, Korenberg Abramowitz & Feldun A Law Corporation, Sherman Oaks, CA, for Petitioner.
CAC-Distriet Counsel, Esq., Office of the District Counsel Department of Homeland Security, Los Angeles, CA, Ronald E. Lefevre, Chief Counsel, Office of the District Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, Mark L. Gross, Esq., Conor Dugan, DOJ-U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division/Appellate Section, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
Before: HAWKINS, MCKEOWN, and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Basel Abdulnour, a native and citizen of Syria, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' order summarily affirming an immigration judge's ("IJ") order denying his application for asylum and withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252. Reviewing for substantial evidence, Lata v. INS, 204 F.3d 1241, 1244 (9th Cir.2000), we deny the petition for review.
Substantial evidence supports the IJ's finding that Abdulnour's incarceration for a single twenty-day period during the two years he served in the Syrian military was not on account of his Christian beliefs, in that Abdulnour acknowledged that the incarceration resulted from his refusal to prepare breakfast for a superior officer. See Pedro-Mateo v. INS, 224 F.3d 1147, 1150 (9th Cir.2000) (recognizing that the petitioner bears the burden of demonstrating that persecution occurred on account of an enumerated ground). The IJ's finding that the other mistreatment described by Abdulnour did not rise to the level of persecution is also supported by substantial evidence. See Nagoulko v. INS, 333 F.3d 1012, 1016 (9th Cir.2003) (finding no persecution where alien was teased, bothered, discriminated against, and harassed because of her Pentecostal religious beliefs).
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and may not be cited to or by the courts of this circuit except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.