Expect Democrats To “Kick Open The Doors Of Congress to Islamists from CAIR and other militant groups”
Posted on November 13, 2006
Update: Robert Spencer has written about this topic as well at Frontpage Magazine. A sample:
With the Democratic victory in the midterm elections, one big winner was the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). The American Islamic pressure group now has a chance to advance its agenda in numerous ways, with energetic water-carrying by, among others, the Speaker of the House, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and the first Muslim member of Congress.
Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, who is likely to be the next House Speaker, has announced her intention to “correct the Patriot Act” and wants to criminalize scrutiny of Muslims at airports and elsewhere: “Since September 11, many Muslim Americans have been subjected to searches at airports and other locations based upon their religion and national origin. We must make it illegal.” Since religion is the one factor that the jihadists themselves invariably point to as the motivation for their violent actions, Pelosi is calling upon investigators to ignore the single most important key to understanding jihadist strategy and goals. If she gets her way, any Muslim who is searched at an airport at any time will be able to claim that he is being illegally profiled; a law criminalizing searches of Muslims at airports would have a chilling effect upon any effort to investigate jihad terror activity in the Muslim community.
Helping pass such a law will be John Conyers, D-MI, the probable new chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. “The policies of the Bush administration,” he has declared, “have sent a wave of fear through our immigrant communities and targeted our Arab and Muslim neighbors.”
It keeps getting better and better. The Democrats leading us in a “new direction” or leading us to slaughter? If cut and run in Iraq isn’t enough to make one worry, then how about being a shill for groups like CAIR, who have a history of terrorist ties in order to push their politically correct and dangerous policies?
The likely new chairman of the House Judiciary Committee says he’s just fighting bigotry in leading a Democrat jihad to deny law enforcement key terror-fighting tools. But he is in the pocket of Islamists.
John Conyers, son of a leftist Detroit union activist, represents the largest Arab population in the country. His district includes Dearborn, Mich., nicknamed “Dearbornistan” by locals fed up with cultural encroachment and terror fears from a steady influx of Mideast immigrants.
Conyers, who runs an Arabic version of his official Web site, does the bidding of these new constituents and the militant Islamist activists who feed off them. They want to kill the Patriot Act and prevent the FBI from profiling Muslim suspects in terror investigations. They also want to end the use of undisclosed evidence against suspected Arab terrorists in deportation proceedings.
And the 77-year-old Conyers has vowed to deliver those changes for them.
“The policies of the Bush administration have sent a wave of fear through our immigrant communities and targeted our Arab and Muslim neighbors,” he growls.
He’ll soon be in a position to act on his promises. And he has the full backing of the expected speaker of the House. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., wants to criminalize FBI and Customs Service profiling of Muslim terror suspects.
“Since Sept. 11, many Muslim Americans have been subjected to searches at airports and other locations based upon their religion and national origin,” she said. “We must make it illegal.”
Conyers, a lawyer by trade, last decade pushed through a bill to help stop what he called “DWB,” driving while black. He dubs post-9/11 profiling “flying while Muslim.”
Pelosi has also promised Muslims she’ll “correct the Patriot Act,” one of the most valuable tools the FBI has in ferreting out jihadist cells lurking in Muslim communities.
Conyers is one of the top recipients of donations from the Arab-American Leadership PAC. And not surprisingly, he has a long history of pandering to Arab and Muslim voters.
During the first Gulf War, for instance, Conyers fought FBI outreach efforts in the Arab and Muslim community in Detroit that were designed to gather intelligence on potential cells and protect the home front. Conyers and other Detroit-area Democrats at the time, David Bonior and John Dingell, threatened to hold hearings unless the FBI stopped counterterrorism interviews.
The FBI met with them privately to explain the national security benefits of outreach, but could not allay their concerns. In the end, the FBI backed off. Today, Hamas, Hezbollah and the al-Qaida-tied Muslim Brotherhood are all active in the area.
Expect Conyers and Pelosi to kick open the doors of Congress to Islamists from the Council on American-Islamic Relations and other militant groups. They will have unfettered access, even though many of their leaders have been tied to terrorism (some CAIR officials have landed in the big house).
It isn’t anything new, as they have been having roundtable discussions with CAIR to enact their policies for a while. What is new is that they are now in power. Lord help us!
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Jay,
I wouldn’t lose any sleep over the things Conyers says. He’s from a district packed to the gills with minorities, so he has never received less than 85% of the votes. He’s as far left as you can get, because his district is as solid as it can get.
He still advocates slave reparations for his constituents.
He’s something of a party elder, so he holds important positions, but the party doesn’t follow his lead. He just spews rhetoric.
If changes to legislation are made then the Senate will be an obstacle to Democrat hopes. The Senate is controlled by the Democrat Party only by one vote. This translate that all the Republican have to do, provided everybody shows, is take one more vote from the Democrats than the Democrats take from them in order to tie and give Dick Cheney the tie breaking vote. The Republican can also filibuster which means the Democrats would have to muster 3/5 of the Senators to over ride it. The only way I see legislation passing is if a large share of the Republican Party aids it to pass.
The Republicans need to report any action by John Conyers or anyone else that even has the appearance of compromising national security.
Jay,
I want to thank you. You and your authors have done an outstanding job reporting and making commentary on what a newly Democratic Congress and Senate means. It is so disturbing and alarming that I hope every American comes here to get a glimpse of the damage awaiting America.
This article about Conyers is very disturbing. Your article called “Leahy Vows To “Restore” Habeas Corpus For Terrorists” made my husband and I stare for silent moments in disbelief, yet it’s better to know the truth. What is the truth? That Democrats are hell bent on destroying America, and that Americans just blessed the deal via the last election.
Keep up the great work. This is serious stuff and you and your crew are really laying it out there.
Sure, anyone can claim anything. They always could. They would still have to demonstrate that illegal search.
As long as the government has
1. a well-defined procedure for determining who is searched
2. that is transparent or has sufficient oversight
3. and race/creed is not a factor
then there won’t be any problems.
No one is proposing a law that would “criminalize searches of Muslims”. The discussion centers around whether or not you can search someone specifically because s/he is Muslim.