Posted on 08/31/2007 9:37:23 AM PDT by kellynla
Republican lawmakers are urging the Justice Department not to participate in a convention held by the Islamic Society of North America — a group named as an unindicted co-conspirator in an ongoing terrorism-financing case.
In a letter to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, Reps. Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and Sue Myrick of North Carolina called the Justice Department's involvement a "grave mistake."
"In light of the threat that our nation ... is currently facing from radical jihadists, and because of the president's commitment to fighting the war on terror on all fronts, we believe it is a grave mistake to provide legitimacy to an organization with extremist origins, leadership and a radical agenda," the lawmakers said.
Rep. Peter T. King, New York Republican and ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee, said he agrees that Justice officials should not attend the conference.
"It is absolute insanity for the federal government, especially the Department of Justice, to be giving any credibility at all to a group like the ISNA, which has such strong links to Islamic extremism," Mr. King said.
Justice Department spokesman Erik Ablin said in an e-mail that the department has "received the letter, and we will respond to Reps. Hoekstra and Myrick." He went on to note that the Civil Rights Division and other government agencies — including military recruiters — frequently attend the convention "as part of its outreach and education efforts."
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Instead of arresting & deporting these towel heads; D.O.J. is patronizing them.
gezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
bin Laden would be so proud.
Between the State Dept and the DoJ, it’s a good question of who actually stands for truth and justice anymore..
A little intimidation and threats of lawsuits and waa laaa, you get the key to the executive washroom.. and foot baths installed, to boot.
The DoJ is an embarrassment to the nation.
Unbelievable...
Yet another reason Gonzales needs to be "outta there."
This is the kind of PC squishiness that is destroying our country.
What part of THEY ARE TERRORISTS WHO WANT TO KILL US doesn’t the DOJ understand?
“PC” with it comes to islam will get you d...e...a...d!
Sooner or later we are going to have to give the muzzies the jihad they so desperately want. But of course, when that time comes, all these clowns in D.C. will be sitting at home drawing their government pensions.
Thank you Hoekstra, Myrick and King. FReeper comments BUMP!
yea - lets bury our head in the sand, ignore the convention and not know what was really discussed. That’s the ticket!
I know I’m not the last person alive to understand “keep your friends close but your enemies closer”
If they are co-conspirators, we should be there with bells on and covertly listen/record everything that gets discussed.
Deport them all!
False Choice Logical Fallacy.
“Republican lawmakers are urging the Justice Department not to participate
in a convention held by the Islamic Society of North America — a group
named as an unindicted co-conspirator in an ongoing terrorism-financing case.”
Looks like it’s just a Wahhabi organization.
For reference (and a tip of the hat to David Horowitz and Front Page Mag):
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6178
Why are enemy organizations permitted to operate in this country?
See my tag line.
What is wrong with our Justice Department?
did we allow the German American Bunds to operate in America during WWII? Of course we didn’t!
After 9/11 every foreign muzzie in America should have been deported and every mosque closed!
That’s right closed! Either we are at war or we aren’t.
And either we are going to win this war or we aren’t!
We don’t need to patronize a convention of towel heads.
What don’t you know about islam that you didn’t learn on 9/11?
These muzzies want anyone and everyone who does not believe in islam d...e...a...d! Hell, they don’t even like each other!
Sooner or later we are going to have to give the muzzies the jihad they so desperately want. And this time, we’ll finish the job.
Case closed!
Typically, bells tend to spoil the whole covert effect.
The point here is that the DoJ's presence at this convention is not about monitoring, it's about lending legitimacy to an organization they themselves have named as terrorist co-conspirators. The DoJ is acting like the freakin HR department. Ooooh, let's have a sensitivity training session and dialogue some more.
I wonder where Peter King stands on the Kahlil Gibran Arabic School.
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