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Hamas-linked CAIR files suit claiming terror watch list discriminates against Muslims

Apr 8, 2016 2:16 pm By Robert Spencer

Hamas-linked CAIR’s Michigan top dog Dawud Walid said: “I think the question is, are we going to be selective about this? Are we following people and placing people on this list who go to KKK meetings, people who go to Donald Trump rallies?” So in Dawud Walid’s world, he would have you believe that people who go to Donald Trump rallies are just as likely to commit acts of terror as people who believe in a religion that exhorts believers to wage war against and subjugate unbelievers, and whose adherents have been responsible for over 28,000 terror attacks worldwide since 9/11.

This is a very clear illustration of a point I have made many, many times: that Hamas-linked CAIR opposes every counter-terror measure that has ever been proposed or implemented. The simple reason why there are more Muslims than anyone else on the terror watch list is because there are more Muslim terrorists than any other kind. But instead of addressing that within Muslim communities and working for reform, Hamas-linked CAIR wants authorities to devote as much attention in counter-terror efforts to Amish as to Muslims. That would be just asking for more jihad terror attacks.

Ibrahim-Hooper-CAIR-AP

“CAIR files federal lawsuits claiming US ‘terror watch list’ discriminatory against Muslims,” by John Binder, BizPacReview, April 7, 2016 (thanks to Thomas):

Placing Muslim jihadists on a ‘terror watch list’ is now apparently discriminatory, according to the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

In two federal lawsuits this week, CAIR alleges that the U.S. government’s terror watch list is unconstitutional because it violates the rights of individuals on the list, according to a report by Courthouse News Service.

“Defendants have utilized the watch list, not as a tool to enhance aviation and border security, but as a bludgeon to coerce American Muslims into becoming informants or forgoing the exercise of their rights, such as the right to have an attorney present during law enforcement questioning,” the lawsuits claim.

Executive Director of CAIR Dawud Walid said that if the federal government was going to track Islamic extremism, it should also surveillance Donald Trump supporters.

“I think the question is, are we going to be selective about this?” Walid said. “Are we following people and placing people on this list who go to KKK meetings, people who go to Donald Trump rallies?”…

The lawsuits also claim that residents from Dearborn, Mich., are overly represented on the terror watch list only because the area has a massive Muslim population of 40 percent.

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  1. jihad3tracker says

    Apr 8, 2016 at 2:34 pm

    LET ME REPEAT WHAT I HAVE SAID HERE OFTEN BEFORE — CAIR seditionists have to do SOMETHING to “earn” their pay by whoever among the members of Allah’s sick fan club are funding them.

    THEY PUT OUT BULLSH*T comedy bloviation which not even my pet frog believes. And to top off our banana split with a big cherry —- THEY ALL READ EVERY WORD ROBERT WRITES ON JIHADWATCH.

    So, a big hello to Dawud Walid, Nihad Awad, Ibrahim Hooper, and all the rest of the pussies. You represent the best and brightest Muslims in taqiyya — that is to say, at or below the moron level.

    • linnte says

      Apr 8, 2016 at 3:57 pm

      I HOPE they ARE reading this! Because I want to tell them that I alone have convinced at least 10 people that Islam is evil, and those ten will convince 10 each and soon millions upon millions of Americans will be hip to their modus operandi and America will REJECT their Pagan god Allah! And Dawud Walid, I have a special treat with your name scratched on the brass, just for you!

    • Huck Folder says

      Apr 8, 2016 at 4:11 pm

      They have their ACE:

      “… I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”

      Or should that be acehole?

      • underbed cat says

        Apr 9, 2016 at 11:53 am

        I know who said that! Sneaky…but kinda of funny.

        He has been true to his words….a message that surely had a audience and said we got the go.

        The clueless thought, he is such a kind soul…..Robert educates hopefully it will reach the clueless.

  2. KrazyKafir says

    Apr 8, 2016 at 2:48 pm

    Islam’s 5th column in America is, colossal. When will America wake up?

    • Polk1970 says

      Apr 8, 2016 at 10:46 pm

      And Lefties are a big part of it.
      They’re all competing for the’ Quisling Award’

      • Lanya LaPunta says

        Apr 9, 2016 at 11:16 am

        Why do people continue to refer to islamophiliacs as, solely, lefties.

        They are radical, left wing, progressive, islamophiliacs.

        A few more words, but far more accurate in description.

  3. Elisheva says

    Apr 8, 2016 at 2:50 pm

    With these idiotic procedures they were able to get Europe to comply with their wishes. They know what they are doing. It is all well crafted and has worked before elsewhere.

    • Mark Swan says

      Apr 9, 2016 at 5:05 am

      Yes You are right Elisheva

  4. Fessitude says

    Apr 8, 2016 at 4:07 pm

    “Hamas-linked CAIR files suit claiming terror watch list discriminates against Muslims”

    Let’s hope the terror watch list (and all other forms of self-defense our intelligence agencies pursue) discriminates against Muslims!

    One of a myriad signs that PC MC has won the culture war is in the way they have successfully co-opted certain words in the popular lexicon — such as discrmination.

    The ever perspicacious novelist Kurt Vonnegut, God bless him (a die-hard Leftist atheist himself, but, unlike most of his peers, smart) noticed even back in the 1960s (in a clever passage in his novel God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater) how that perfectly fine word was being twisted.

    See my essay:

    Dis-crim-i-nay-tion

    http://hesperado.blogspot.com/2015/06/dis-crim-i-nay-tion.html

    The word’s original connotations remain, nevertheless, in semantic contexts such as “that person has a discriminating taste” – meaning, that person is able to make intelligent distinctions.

    Which is what CAIR doesn’t want us to do with regard to Muslims.

    • Huck Folder says

      Apr 8, 2016 at 4:27 pm

      How can ‘discriminate’ be totally negative,
      when ‘indiscriminate’ is mostly negative?

      The answer is as Fessitude says, it’s
      either intellectually challenged leftards
      (itself a tautology) co-opting the word,
      like those who co-opted ‘gay’
      a peviously pleasant word.

      If you cannot DISCRIMINATE
      between safe and unsafe food
      or water you will will be
      violently sick or die.

      If three white skinheads are seen
      beating up a black guy, do the police
      go searching for black or Hispanic
      men? Or women??

      VERY very few people get to
      work with obuMBoy (and I for one
      would never entertain that)
      but THAT ‘discrimination’
      get’s a pass, and rightly so!

      Firemen head to the source of fire,
      naturally, so the police, FBI, CIA
      should head to the source of
      criminality and sedition.

      EVERYONE seeking to block
      or thwart those activities
      should come under the microscope.

  5. D says

    Apr 8, 2016 at 5:13 pm

    CAIR is a shame! Ofcourse the terror list have Muslims on it because all terrorists are Muslims. The say they’re a civil rights group but what they don’t talk about the victims of Jihad. Why? Because they simply don’t give a damn! Also they try to isolate moderate Muslims from America by telling them not to work with the FBI and threaten the ones that do with violence. When someone breaks the law they lose there rights, being Islamic doesn’t give them privileges!

  6. Angemon says

    Apr 8, 2016 at 6:28 pm

    Placing Muslim jihadists on a ‘terror watch list’ is now apparently discriminatory, according to the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

    I’m sorry to hear that. Have those muslims tried not to be linked to terrorism? Because I have in good authority that if you don’t support for terrorist groups (or, at least, if you’re inconspicuous in your support) you don’t get on a “terror watch list”

    “Defendants have utilized the watch list, not as a tool to enhance aviation and border security, but as a bludgeon to coerce American Muslims into becoming informants or forgoing the exercise of their rights, such as the right to have an attorney present during law enforcement questioning,” the lawsuits claim.
    (…)
    “I think the question is, are we going to be selective about this?” Walid said. “Are we following people and placing people on this list who go to KKK meetings, people who go to Donald Trump rallies?”

    So… does this mean that, according to CAIR, people going to Trump rallies (I’m guessing they’re specifically referring to pro-Trumpers, not anti-Trumpers who go there to start s*** – you know, the people who should really be in terror watch lists) should be coerced to become informants or out of their rights?

    If the “terror watch list” status is indeed being abused in that way, it’s a shame, and it needs to end. But in that case, muslims wouldn’t be the only people in that situation. Why talk about discrimination against muslims? Because that’s a modus operandi that works. That’s how the left in general works. “Black rights activists” take a general issue, focus on black victims and cry racism. “Feminists” take a general issue, focus on female victims and cry “sexism”. Conversely, CAIR takes a general issue (if it is an issue to begin with and they’re not lying through their teeth, which I’ll only believe after seeing solid evidence), focus on the muslim “victims” and cry “discrimination against muslims”.

    • underbed cat says

      Apr 9, 2016 at 12:27 pm

      To lie in the face of known facts is a skill that requires a division of the mind. A hardened skill that requires the ability to be well liked and appear sincere and trustworthy. I think Trump is trying to get some facts out, that the skilled apologists are trying to (sometimes with Trumps learning curve mistakes) suppress, and they do it with a hardened skill and likability and certainly a divided mind.

  7. traci94 says

    Apr 8, 2016 at 6:49 pm

    Our government’s terror watch list IS NOT unconstitutional. The reason there are more Muslims (or ONLY Muslims) on that list is they are the ones that are committing terrorism. NOT Christians, Jews or even the KKK. About the only non-Muslim person that they can come up with that has committed an act of terror is Timothy McVeigh. Groups like CAIR need to come to grips with reality, and stop lying to us as though we don’t have eyes to see where terror is really coming from. I don’t even take CAIR and these Muslim “advocacy” groups seriously. If they truly opposed violence and terrorism, as they say they do, then they would acknowledge the friggin’ truth, and they would support our government in it’s endeavors to stop terrorism. And they would instruct “moderate” Muslims to co-operate as well. The FACT that they oppose every single counter terrorism effort shouts loud and clear that they support Jihad terror and are totally un-American.

    • Fessitude says

      Apr 9, 2016 at 4:50 pm

      “The reason there are more Muslims (or ONLY Muslims) on that list is they are the ones that are committing terrorism. ”

      Correct. CAIR’s logic here is essentially the same logic as (and, I maintain, draws ideological form and sociopolitical sustenance from) the #BlackLivesMatter crowd (and their forbears, the Al Sharpton/Jesse Jackson Race Card movement) who, when we as a society notice that far more blacks are incarcerated for violent crimes, conclude that it can’t be because there exists a serious dysfunction in urban Black American culture – but rather it’s indicative of systemic white “racism” in police culture, reflecting an endemic hangover of “racism” throughout white America.

      And then, when people balk at this logic, they are accused of “racism”, just as they are when they do so with regard to dysfunction & pathology of Muslim culture.

    • Bob says

      Apr 10, 2016 at 11:07 pm

      The name of the game is survival. Our enemies would like to destroy us. They are taking advantage of the freedom that this country offers. Americans need to wake up before it is too late. Look at the mess in Europe right now.

    • Angemon says

      Apr 14, 2016 at 7:40 am

      traci94 posted:

      “The reason there are more Muslims (or ONLY Muslims) on that list is they are the ones that are committing terrorism. ”

      Indeed. But facts don’t matter to the usual crybully crowd. Their “logic” is this: a group of people is over (or under) represented in something, therefore, discrimination. Muslims are overrepresented in a terror watch list? Bigotry! No black actors on the “Best Actor” category for the Oscars? Racism! Women are under-represented in STEM fields? Sexism! Of course, this “logic” isn’t consistently applied – I don’t see them complaining about the lack of white or asian people in the NBA, or the under-representation of women in, for example, mining, oil drilling or garbage collecting.

      I (partially) blame civil rights groups. Well, what they morphed into. They were too successful for their own good – decades ago, black rights activists and feminists actually managed to do the changes they wanted in society. But they didn’t go “hi-fives all around guys! We’ll have a party to celebrate our success this weekend and Monday we can get back to your day jobs” because their day jobs were activism. So what happens when your raison d’être is gone? Well, you make up new “victims” to protect. And once people realized being a professional victim is a profitable occupation, they started popping out like mushrooms.

      • linnte says

        Apr 14, 2016 at 3:50 pm

        Exactly Angemon.

  8. Alistair cromley says

    Apr 8, 2016 at 9:52 pm

    The far right, including the KKK and other Neo Nazi organizations ARE already heavily monitored and infiltrated by various the 3 lettered Federal agencies.

  9. gravenimage says

    Apr 9, 2016 at 12:42 am

    Hamas-linked CAIR files suit claiming terror watch list discriminates against Muslims
    ……………………

    Well, of course–doing *anything* to prevent violent Jihad discriminates against Muslims’ being able to practice the full range of their faith.

    That fact should, of course, horrify and alarm Infidels.

    • Mark Swan says

      Apr 9, 2016 at 5:01 am

      Our legal system needs serious overhaul; it has needed this for so long now and is ripe for unscrupulous lawyers.

      We all know the law has never been about right and wrong; it has only been about the law.

      If our laws serve such arbitrary purpose, then it certainly can be easily changed,
      to serve objective facts, reasons, or principles.

      Now How Do We Get This Sensible Law Passed…In This World Of Nonsense?

  10. brane pilot says

    Apr 9, 2016 at 12:56 am

    A murder watch list discriminates against murderers. That is what it is supposed to do. What is the use of non-murderers on a murderers watch list.

    Of course if this goes to court, all bets are off.

    • underbed cat says

      Apr 10, 2016 at 10:35 am

      Excellent…yes sir that is it. Until it goes to court……which brings me to the defense lawyers…can they legally allow facts to be deemed as lies? ..in order to defend. I guess it is a twisting of sort to know what “facts” are in legal terms.

  11. Jay Boo says

    Apr 9, 2016 at 2:33 am

    Muslims believe that by saying Allahu Akbar and other vile things that they are somehow above all reproach.

    CAIR is singing “Who Let The Dogs Out”
    The bloodhounds will chase their tails and a million hungry fleas while make them itch till they scratch with their hind legs.

  12. mortimer says

    Apr 9, 2016 at 3:33 am

    CAIR has instructed Muslims not to share information about jihadists with the FBI. Is that not suspicious?

    You would think that CAIR secretly SUPPORTS jihad terrorism…rather than desiring to eradicate it.

    How can jihad terrorism be eradicated unless Muslims turn in the jihadists?

    However, isn’t jihad a compulsory duty incumbent upon ALL Muslims?

  13. خَليفة says

    Apr 9, 2016 at 4:06 am

    Someone should make bacon flavored deodorant, aftershave, cologne, toothpaste, shampoo.

  14. bostongal912 says

    Apr 9, 2016 at 4:10 am

    People that go to Donald Trump rallies? Is this idiot serious? That is so ridiculous it’s laughable! Last time I checked people at Trump’s rallies weren’t trying to blow people up or run around stabbing them! I think some people in congress are trying to put CAIR on the terror list because of their support for Humas! I suppose they’ll have a fit if that happens! Who do they think they are that they can tell the American government who they can do surveillance on? It won’t surprise me though if they win their case! Especially with Obama and the Demorats in power!

  15. davej says

    Apr 9, 2016 at 1:30 pm

    I believe that the scales are finally falling from American’s eyes as they slowly realize the true nature and intent of Islam and it’s invasion of Europe and America.

    The tipping point is nearly here, at last.

  16. solange silverman says

    Apr 9, 2016 at 4:18 pm

    Hmmmm,….I wonder why.

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