Controversial Muslim Group (CAIR) gets VIP Airport Security Tour (DSH shows all)

WorldNetDaily ^ | 08/18/06 | n/a

[mojito]

The Department of Homeland Security took a Muslim group with known past ties to terror organizations on a VIP tour of security operations at the nation's busiest airport at the same time British authorities were working to break up a plot to blow up U.S. airlines.

On June 21, a senior DHS official from Washington personally guided Muslim officials from the Council on American-Islamic Relations on a behind-the-scenes tour of Customs screening operations at O'Hare International Airport in response to CAIR complaints that Muslim travelers were being unfairly delayed as they entered the U.S. from abroad.

CAIR is a spin-off of the Islamic Association for Palestine, identified by two former FBI counterterrorism chiefs as a "front group" for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. Several CAIR leaders have been convicted on terror-related charges.

During the airport tour, CAIR was taken on a walk through the point-of-entry, Customs stations, secondary screening and interview rooms. In addition, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents were asked to describe for CAIR representatives various features of the high-risk passenger lookout system.

In a meeting, Brian Humphrey, Customs and Border Patrol's executive director of field operations, assured CAIR officials that agents do not single out Muslim passengers for special screening and that they must undergo a mandatory course in Muslim sensitivity training. The course teaches agents that Muslims believe jihad is an "internal struggle against sin" and not holy warfare.

Customs agents involved in the CAIR tour at O'Hare tell WorldNetDaily they were outraged that headquarters would reveal sensitive counterterrorism procedures to an organization that has seen several of its own officials convicted of terror-related charges since 9-11.

"Isn't that nice of CBP," one agent said, to provide a "group like CAIR with a guided, behind-the-scenes tour of our customs facilities, explaining how programs designed to catch Muslim terrorists work."

CAIR says the tour allayed its concerns about profiling and that it "looks forward to continuing the relationship with U.S. Customs and Border Protection offices in the region, and to furthering understanding between the organizations as well as facilitating future communication in order to eliminate problems for Muslim travelers before they even arise."

The Muslim-sensitivity training course at O'Hare is taught by Margaret Nydell, an Arabic professor at Georgetown University, home to a large Saudi-financed center on Islamic studies.

A Customs and Border Protection supervisor described Nydell's instruction, along with CBP's companion training manual and video, as "politically correct drivel."

"It's all about how Islam means peace and tolerance," he told WorldNetDaily. "We're told how to deal with Arabs and Muslims, that they are loving people and not terrorists. That jihad is struggle with sin and has nothing to do with violence."

The Department of Homeland Security invites CAIR itself to conduct sensitivity training for Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and supervisors (CBP's counterparts) in Chicago. The course is taught by local CAIR officials Christina Abraham and Mariyam Hussain. More than 30 ICE staffers have gone through the CAIR awareness program so far.

CAIR – which is bankrolled by the Saudis and the United Arab Emirates, two countries that formally recognized the Taliban – also offers religious and cultural sensitivity training about Islam and Muslims to the military. In June, for example, CAIR trained more than 300 military personnel at the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, Ariz.

Also in June, CAIR was invited by the Pentagon to a ceremony dedicating the first Islamic center in Marine Corps history at Quantico headquarters outside of Washington.

Washington-based CAIR also has regular meetings with the FBI and Justice Department. In fact, FBI case agents complain the bureau rarely can make a move in the Muslim community without first consulting with CAIR, which sits on its advisory board. CAIR in the past has cried racism and bigotry when the bureau has moved unilaterally with investigations and raids in the community.

[Joe Marine 76]

How about.... "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer." - Vito Corleone

[Revolting cat!]

Are we French yet?

[CindyDawg]

"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

That doesn't mean you have to give them the keys to the safe though.

[PogySailor]

DHS management proving to CAIR they understand their status as dhimmi.

[PogySailor]

Washington-based CAIR also has regular meetings with the FBI and Justice Department. In fact, FBI case agents complain the bureau rarely can make a move in the Muslim community without first consulting with CAIR, which sits on its advisory board. CAIR in the past has cried racism and bigotry when the bureau has moved unilaterally with investigations and raids in the community.

Good grief. I missed this the first time through.

[Tamar1973]

Her's a photo op with the CAIR entourage they gave the airport tour to.

[alarm rider]

Well, anyone ready for a real American leader yet? You know, someone that will take on these scum balls and make sure they stay out of government and the military entirely?

[GSlob]

"This is a joke, right?"
Nope. "And in this area we conduct colonoscopies. The rack is in the corner, right over there..." If a few chains and pulleys were affixed to the walls in the area the distinguished guests have visited, so much the better. Nothing beats a good story with the visuals.

[butternut_squash_bisque]

At some point, they have to be destroyed to safeguard your Family's and Nation's health. That *time* is upon us, IMO.

Don Corleone walked the walk, but Sun-Tzu invented the concept.

http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/36994.html

[aculeus]

Washington-based CAIR also has regular meetings with the FBI and Justice Department. In fact, FBI case agents complain the bureau rarely can make a move in the Muslim community without first consulting with CAIR, which sits on its advisory board.

Are we nuts?

[Pride in the USA]

I just don't understand. The only question that remains is WHY???? Our military forces in the Middle East are forced to undergo Muslim sensitivity training and now so does our our airport security people?!!! And even our President now refers to Muslim terrorists as "those extremist folks," so he clearly is a recent graduate of the Muslim sensitivity training program as well. God save America.

[Czar]

Now, I ask you, why would any of us distrust the federal government?

After all, the FBI, CIA and NSA did such a swell job for us on that 9/11 thing...

Traitors.

[sheik yerbouty]

Have our officials in D.C. already surrendered?

[Digger]

"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Qur'an should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth"

--Omar Ahmed, Chairman of the Board of CAIR (Council of American Islamic Relations), San Ramon Valley Herald, July 1998

[Czar]

Yes, Digger, I know.

So does our federal government.

Hard to explain, no?

[khnyny]

[Customs agents involved in the CAIR tour at O'Hare tell WorldNetDaily they were outraged that headquarters would reveal sensitive counterterrorism procedures to an organization that has seen several of its own officials convicted of terror-related charges since 9-11.

"Isn't that nice of CBP," one agent said, to provide a "group like CAIR with a guided, behind-the-scenes tour of our customs facilities, explaining how programs designed to catch Muslim terrorists work." ]

WTF? Unless this is disinformation, which I doubt. The person who approved this "tour" should be investigated and fired immediately. I hate to say it, but flying is just not safe anymore.

Homeland Security shouldn't just target airlines for security. If they were smart, they would be targeting shipping terminals and cargo trains with sophisticated equipment to detect "foreign substances". Also major spot checking of trucks - examining cargo. If nothing else, the spot checking would reveal smugglers just like during the DC sniper scare. Random searches were done on white vans and trucks and the amount of contraband found was astounding. Drugs, booze, cigs, stolen goods.

[ladyinred]

I am going to hope this isn't true, but you sure never know.

[TYVets]

That doesn't mean you have to give them the keys to the safe though.

It sounds like DHS is Stuck on Stupid !

[RDTF]

who is minding the freakin fort?!

[Gondring]

ping