ACLU and CAIR Team Up to Fight Anti-Terror Efforts….Again
Posted on November 12, 2007
The dynamic duo of the ACLU and CAIR are teaming up once again to fight efforts of rooting out terrorists.
The Los Angeles Police Department announced plans Thursday to map Muslim communities, hoping to identify people who might be liable to succumb to — as Deputy Chief Michael P. Downing put it — “violent, ideologically based extremism.†Downing said that the LAPD would work with a Muslim partner, and added: “We want to know where the Pakistanis, Iranians and Chechens are so we can reach out to those communities.â€
The ACLU of Southern California, an association of Muslim lawyers called Muslim Advocates, the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California and the Council on American Islamic Relations wrote to Downing that “singling out individuals for investigation, surveillance, and data-gathering based on their religion constitutes religious profiling that is just as unlawful, ill-advised and deeply offensive as racial profiling.†And also, “the mapping of Muslim communities…seems premised on the faulty notion that Muslims are more likely to commit violent acts than people of other faiths.â€
Of course they aren’t: that’s why we see Presbyterians blowing themselves up in crowded restaurants, Buddhists flying planes into buildings, and Amish waving placards crowing that they will soon dominate the world. The mapping of Muslim communities is sensible in light of the violent acts committed around the world — over 9,000 separate attacks since 9/11– in the name of Islam. But political correctness has kept law enforcement officials (and the media) from asking the hard questions they should ask of Muslim leaders in the United States. Absurdities abound. One police official lamented: “We’ll come back from a Kumbayah meeting with a local mosque and realize that these guys who just agreed to help us are in our terror files!†Cleveland Muslim leader Fawaz Damra signed the Fiqh Council of North America’s condemnation of terrorism — and was later deported for failing to disclose his ties to terrorist groups. Damra was never expelled from his communities in Brooklyn, New York, or Cleveland despite having said at a 1989 Islamic conference that “the first principle is that terrorism, and terrorism alone, is the path to liberation.â€
Read the whole thing. Mr. Spencer covers it very well, and I really can’t add much that he didn’t say other than to point out the ACLU’s long history of sympathy with the enemy. Of course the ACLU find it easy to paint such common sense efforts as racism. Of course none of these groups offer solutions to the problem we face, only criticism.
The bottom line:
If American Muslim groups were genuinely concerned about the unfair targeting of Muslims, they could direct their efforts to making concerted efforts to work with law enforcement officials to identify and apprehend jihadists in the United States, and to turn Muslims in America away from the jihad ideology and Islamic supremacism.
The fact that they do not do this, and instead work against genuine efforts to protect this country from a catastrophic attack, is revelatory. Despite their complaints, this mapping should continue, and expand.
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Spencers’ books, among others, have been a revelation to me about the threat the West faces.
3 cheers to the LAPD for their plans!
CAIR is nothing but a terrorist formed group in the United States to raise funds for terrorist plots on Against America. That’s nice. Why Don’t the ACLU just invite Iran to come here to build there Nukes in are back yards then they can use them against use without even firing a missile. Yea the ACLU would support that. We can all type words on are PC’s but unless you make a paper trail to congress about that ACLU they will not be stopped. Words are just that. Action makes a difference. Words to the people (Hello Mc Fly).
Yeah it makes just about as much sense as sending thousands of American citizens to concentration camps during World War II simply because they are of Japanese heritage.