CAIR Applauds Passage of Congressional Amendment Requiring Govt Watchlist Disclosure

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[DeathBeforeDishonor1]

WASHINGTON, July 17, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today applauded the passage of an amendment to the Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA) requiring a report on the dissemination of the federal government's watchlist to more than 60 foreign countries.

The amendment was introduced by Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and requires the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of State to submit a report to Congress detailing various guidelines governing the government's dissemination of the watchlist, which includes more than 1 million people, to foreign countries.

The watchlist is shared with more than 60 foreign countries which may include countries with dubious human rights records like China and Saudi Arabia. The FBI has acknowledged in sworn testimony that it takes no responsibility for, nor does it oversee, how foreign governments actually use U.S. watchlist information.

"The passage of this amendment is a historic step forward for civil rights," said CAIR Senior Litigation Attorney Gadeir Abbas. "For the first time, Congress will have access to information about the watchlist and how it is being used. We hope this will lead to more public scrutiny of this list and the harsh consequences it imposes on American citizens."

Last month, CAIR welcomed a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo from 11 members of Congress requesting more information about this foreign dissemination of the watchlist. They have not received a response.

[DeathBeforeDishonor1]

Guess who sponsored this!

[beethovenfan]

Anything that terrorist bunch applauds is very bad for the country.

[RoseofTexas]

My God..little by little I’m losing faith in our country and it’s people!! It’s getting real scary...GOD HELP US!!

[rfp1234]

Did the Senate concur? If not, saying “it passed” without mentioning it was just the Rat House is misleading.

[DeathBeforeDishonor1]

Still has to get passed by Senate.

[Fiddlstix]

‘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

Winston Churchill on Islam

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities - but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.

No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome."

Winston Churchill (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50 (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899)

[Destroyer Sailor]

Not scared but ready to resist these people. Resistance to these idiots who were elected from safe districts where a ham sandwich could be elected from if it said it was a Democrat. Civil War is coming sooner rather than later.

[FreedomPoster]

Since The River War was mentioned, I’ll take the opportunity to strongly recommend reading both Churchill’s war correspondent accounts of wars with Muslims. They should have been immediate post-9/11 required reading for all officers and NCOs in the armed forces, all Foreign Service involved with the Middle East, and all intelligence agency leadership.

They’re both quick reads, as they originated as serial dispatches from the front. Free at Project Gutenberg, read them on your tablet, phone, or computer. Or go dead trees and print them out, heck, I’m OK with that!

The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War
by Winston Churchill
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9404

The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
by Winston Churchill
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4943

[A strike]

Islam CANNOT exist with the U.S.Constitution.

NOR CAN MUSLIMS

[Fiddlstix]

Thank You

[Pearls Before Swine]

It was stuck in as a rider. Sneaky, but since it’s publicized it won’t survive conference with the Senate. Still amazing it passed. I wonder how many Reps voted, or ifit was a nearly empty chamber.

Also, was this stuck in at Committee level, where the bill is written and reviewed, or by the full House?

[Bullish]

This will NEVER become law. The house is full of demented rat dung, that’s why we’ll see them pass a bunch of worthless anti-American bills which aren’t even worth the paper they will print them on.

[SuperLuminal]

Time to stop pussy footing around! Every single one of them should immediately receive a free life-time dirt-nap tryout...

[ifinnegan]

“The amendment was introduced by Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN)”

No pretense as to who she represents.

Not MN.

[ifinnegan]

For the CAIR quote, you can add July 4 as the date and Lisa Gardiner as the writer.

See this link

http://web.archive.org/web/20050930212204/http:/www.danielpipes.org/394.pdf

[Fiddlstix]

Thank You. I will add that link.

[Fiddlstix]

Click The Text Below For Good Link

‘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

[stylin19a]

what a crap article...a little early for CAIR to be spiking the football.