Posted on 01/11/2010 3:26:51 AM PST by Scanian
Those purporting to speak for American Muslims say they condemn Islamist terrorism of the sort attempted on an airliner on final approach to Detroit on Christmas Day.
Just dont expect them to support anything designed to prevent the next attack.
Last week, the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Muslim Public Affairs Council issued breathless condemnations of new transportation-security guidelines that call for enhanced scrutiny of travelers entering the US from terror-prone countries.
CAIR called the policy religious and ethnic profiling that serves to alienate and stigmatize Muslims. MPAC said it deeply undermines the Obama administrations stated commitment to civil rights [and] equality before the law.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
1.If you get robbed and a cop asks you what the mugger looked like wouldn’t that be profiling?
2.If some needs welfare and is asked questions about income would it be profiling?
3.
HOMELAND INSECURITY
Why does Fox News promote terror-tied, FBI-shunned group?
Bankrolled by same wealthy Saudi prince, CAIR now regular guest on cable leader
Posted: January 11, 2010
9:52 pm Eastern
2010 WorldNetDaily
Long a reliably patriotic media source in the war on terror, Fox News may now be among news outlets who have fallen under the spell of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ propaganda machine.
“We own the media,” CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper privately brags, according to a source currently working inside the aggressive Islamist lobby group.
Fox News host Bill O’Reilly last week invited the TV-savvy Hooper on his show to debate passenger profiling, the second guest appearance by the CAIR spokesman in a month. At the end of the segment, O’Reilly thanked Hooper and called him a “stand-up guy,” sending shockwaves through the conservative blogosphere.
CAIR is no ordinary guest. The government has blacklisted it as an unindicted terrorist co-conspirator, and the group remains under criminal suspicion by the FBI, which has cut off outreach ties to it. .......
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=121694
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