Because there is no more terrorism, right? Right?
Could it be that the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) wants to hamstring the little effort that remains to stop jihad terrorists in the U.S.? Oh, surely not!
“Civil Rights Group Files Suit to Discontinue Terrorism Watchlist Created After 9/11,” by Megan Gates, ASIS International, September 22, 2023 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A civil rights group sued U.S. federal government officials this week, alleging a terrorist watchlist is used for “harassment and humiliation” and should be discontinued.
The Michigan Chapter of the Council on American Islamic Rights (CAIR), a grassroots civil rights and advocacy organization, announced the filing of the lawsuit on behalf of 12 plaintiffs against 29 U.S. federal government representatives on Monday, including the U.S. attorney general, FBI director, and the U.S. Secret Service director. Dearborn, Michigan, has the largest Muslim population per capita of any city in the United States.
“In Michigan and across the nation, American Muslims targeted by the federal government’s unconstitutional, discriminatory watchlist and [sic] standing up and demanding justice from the government for 20 years of unjust targeting,” said CAIR-Michigan Executive Director Dawud Walid in a statement. “The time has come for the Biden administration to end the use of the watchlist.”
The lawsuit alleges that the defendants violated Fifth Amendment due process, equal protection under the law, and self-incrimination protections by placing plaintiffs and other individuals on the Terrorist Screening Dataset (TSDS), as well as the No Fly List and Selectee List, without any meaningful process. The suit also charges that the defendants have violated the Fourth Amendment by subjecting watchlisted individuals to unreasonable searches and seizures when they cross the border to enter the United States.
In addition, the watchlist program is a violation of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act by “substantially” burdening individuals’ practice of Islam by “repeated and intrusive government inquiry” into their beliefs, religious communities, and religious practices, according to the lawsuit.
The plaintiffs are seeking injunctions that require the U.S. federal government to remedy constitutional and statutory violations by providing individuals on the TSDS and its subsets with a legal mechanism that gives them notice of why they are on the list, as well as a meaningful opportunity to contest their inclusion.
Additionally, the plaintiffs are requesting they be removed from the TSDS and other watchlists that inhibit their travel or ability to access government benefits, that their records of TSDS inclusion be permanently expunged, that the watchlist system be reformed to eliminate any discriminatory focus on Muslim identity or religious practice, and other relief, including a trial by jury and monetary damages.
“Watchlist placement extrajudicially sentences innocent Americans to permanent second-class citizenship,” said CAIR in a statement. “CAIR’s lawsuit reveals for the first time that, even on the rare occasion that the government removes an individual from the watchlist, an individual’s past watchlist will continue to haunt them. Federal agencies retain records of past watchlist status and use them to deny formerly listed individuals access to government buildings, security clearances, federal employment, and other licenses and government benefits.”…
Wellington says
Of course CAIR would. After all, using freedom to destroy freedom is so very Islamic.
God, what a wretched religion Islam is. Anyone averring otherwise is demonstrating either their mendacity or their ignorance.
puzzled says
So Judeo-Christian Arch-angel Gariel spoke to mohammy in a cave and told mohammy to kill Jews, Christians and all infidels and non-believers and to write it down.
That the 10 Commandments are wrong. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?
Cam says
Truth!
somehistory says
They tried that at least once, already. They were shot down. Maybe they will be again.
The day of a real reckoning is fast approaching; and these evil scum will get everything they so richly deserve. Probably not what they believe they deserve….not even close…no “probability of it being what they believe.
Larry Estavan says
“Maybe they will be again.”
My guess is that they will not prevail in court.
For just one example, the man on whose behalf CAIR is filing suit, and the trigger for this latest iteration of CAIR’s ongoing campaign to destroy the TSDB, is Mayor of Prospect Park, New Jersey, Mohamed Khairullah.
After Khairullah was disinvited to a party at the White House, Khairullah, and CAIR were on TV 17 times talking about how the watch list made him a second class citizen. – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJY62lxoWd0&list=PLlXFRJgYud-a88cO_bcRY3Q7tq7lCUTmF
If the extent of Khairullah’s damages are that he didn’t get to go to a party, I don’t think they are going to get very far.
In CAIR’s previous attempt to defeat the watch list in court, the appeals court told them, in effect, that CAIR didn’t know what they were doing.
““The delays and burdens experienced by plaintiffs at the border and in airports, although regrettable, do not mandate a complete overhaul of the TSDB,” Wilkinson wrote on behalf of himself, and Circuit Judges Julius Richardson and A. Marvin Quattlebaum, both Trump appointees.
Wilkinson ruled that the Muslim-Americans didn’t adequately demonstrate that they had been denied crossing borders, obtaining permits and the like — just that they had experienced delays. In fact, they were allowed to go through security without incident “a fair percentage of the time.” None of them alleged that they were on the “no fly” list.
“Speculation coupled with a few isolated incidents inadequately tethered to TSDB status is not enough,” Wilkinson wrote. “We are simply not permitted by the Supreme Court to give dispositive weight to outlier experiences.”” – https://www.courthousenews.com/fourth-circuit-upholds-fbi-terrorist-watch-list/
Originally, Judge Anthony Trenga ruled in favor of CAIR, saying the TSDB was unconstitutional. But the government appealed, and the appeals court overturned Trenga’s decision and sent the case back to him with instructions on how to rule properly.
This stunning defeat for CAIR (and Trenga) received relatively little attention compared to Trenga’s original decision that still dominates the search results.
There are hundreds of thousands of federal lawsuits filed each year. Many of these are without merit and are tossed out of court.
Anyone can file a lawsuit. Winning a lawsuit is much more newsworthy. But win, or lose the goal of getting CAIR’s name in the news has been accomplished.
bill says
Just wasting the courts’ valuable time but as they are well funded I expect it does not bother them. I belive they think if they keep hacking at the dam a little water may get through sooner or later
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Well, these days, one has to look at who the judges are in the case, and who appointed them. Just b’cos our reading of the law is something doesn’t imply that it will necessarily be the ruling. Look at what happened in Michigan w/ that FGM case involving Bohra muslim doctors (I use the latter term loosely)
ed says
Their timing couldn’t have been better
With Biden/bHo in the White House they might just win
saturnine says
In other news, representatives of Cosa Nostra sue to repeal all RICO laws, denouncing them as anti-Italian.
Will says
Another reason to vote for Trump
exsgtbrown says
Obama would ptoud
exsgtbrown says
Obama would be proud.
Noah Andeark says
CAIR is a terror organization. Its officers, its members, and its supporters are terrorists. They should be treated as terrorists. As an aside, they are also primarily allahu’s ackbarbarians, taught as a matter of their gutter cult to kill unbelievers. (P)islam is a gutter cult, apparently invented by the pig-faced dog pedophile and rapist “mohammed”.
allahu’s snackbar!!
Hoi Polloi says
“Civil Rights Group” CAIR, says Megan Gates.
On what planet? ClownWorld Megan Gates, earning her stripes with blackface, Nazi-worshipping Trudeau, world class climate scientist-prophet Greta, Nazi Jew-persecuting Soros, Xi puppet Biden-Harris-Obama, not actually schaffening das Merkel, and the rest.
OLD GUY says
CAIR should be on that list, maybe at the top of the list.
Yeshayahu says
First off afforded rights under citizenship is one thing/ privilege can be revoked at anytime. They do not have rights as a US National and any rights or privileges are at the discretion of the country. A prime example I has a Jew cannot travel in certain Muslim countries because it is illegal under their constitution. It works both ways if they support radical Islam. And believe everybody needs to fall in line according to sharia law or Muslim way of thinking, then no, you should not be allowed entry into the United States. You should not be allowed to fly or work within the country regardless of whether or not, you have family here the needs of the many, the majority for outweigh the privileges and assumed rights of the minority, especially concerning ties to terrorism, or support of terrorist organizations in the name of Islam, etc. etc.