This story really torques my jaws. WorldNetDaily reported today about the latest Department of Homeland Security blunder.
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.
Muslim travellers should be delayed as they enter the US from abroad. Muslims are the only ones who have blown people up since the IRA cut a deal with the British. While not all Muslims blow people up, all of the ones that do have vowed to blow up Israelis and Americans. Hello? Is anybody listening???
Janice at You Heard It Here... keeps tabs on CAIR's activities. She's on the email distribution list of what she calls CAIR's daily "Whine-o-gram." She reads it so we don't have to. It's a good idea to check her blog regularly to keep up on what this underhanded group is up to. Here's how WorldNetDaily describes CAIR:
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.
Exactly.
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.
"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."
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.
What is our government thinking??? They get some things right and other things--like this--horribly wrong. I am not optimistic.
3 comments:
I can't believe I missed that one Skye.
I just spent 40 minutes digging in my CAIR email "bag" and came up with nothing. They usually love to pat themselves on the back for trying to be proactive where muslims may be offended. They often use this tactic disguised in a way to address islamic concerns and educate us infidels on how to treat these "special" folks.
Thanks for the recognition.
Keep in mind CAIR is an entity that may not neccessarily represent all Muslims. I can't recall the name of that one religious group in Ireland (or whether they were on the Cathloic or Protestant side) but they were pretty scarey too! Not all Muslim people are bad guys! I have a post on Lebanon here which I would like to extend an invitation for you to read.
I enjoyed reading your blog!
Dave,
I have no doubt that CAIR only represents a small portion of Muslims. And of course not all Muslims are bad guys (though some of the left-leaning commenters on this and other blogs like to assume that's what we mean), because I work with some Muslims who are among the nicest, funniest people I know.
Glad you stopped by!
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