Old Trooper sends along this link in which the Aero-News Network forwards Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) concerns about “profiling” in the wake of the latest assault on Americans’ freedoms caused by the government’s unwillingness to profile;
“While everyone supports robust airline security measures, racial and religious profiling are in fact counterproductive and can lead to a climate of insecurity and fear,” said CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper. CAIR touts itself as America’s largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization and espouses a mission ‘to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding.’
I suggest the government refrain from profiling Muslims just because they’re Muslims as soon as Muslims quit blowing up Americans just because we’re Americans and/or infidels. When I read that CAIR has condemned the actions of particular terrorist groups, maybe I’ll consider their complaints. As far as I know, CAIR can’t even bring itself to admit that Hamas conducts terrorist operations.
Me? When I ride the subway, I inventory the items with which every Muslim gets on and then off my particular car. I also look for evidence of guns and knives on Black and Hispanic youths. Yeah, I profile – it only makes common sense.
According to that bastion of right wingnuts at ABC News, two of the four leaders of the plot to bomb a flight into Detroit on Christmas Day, graduated from the Guantanamo Finishing School;
American officials agreed to send the two terrorists from Guantanamo to Saudi Arabia where they entered into an “art therapy rehabilitation program” and were set free, according to U.S. and Saudi officials.
Art therapy rehabilitation doesn’t appear to be effective, so we probably ought to stop doing that – along with sending Gitmo detainees to Saudi Arabia – or any other country that advocates art therapy. Of course, my friends at the ACLU will preach to us that these two became terrorists BECAUSE of Guantanamo. But they all got picked up for a reason, fellas.
The clowns at Huffington Post picked up on “Matthew Alexander’s” line that Guantanamo was al Qaeda’s main recruiting tool.
Personally, I think Matthew Alexander is al Qaeda’s main recruiting tool.
Washington Post takes the time and the column inches to drum up sympathy for Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. They pour through 300 internet messages that federal authorities believe to be from Abdulmutallab;
“I have no one to speak too [sic],” read a posting from January 2005, when Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was attending boarding school. “No one to consult, no one to support me and I feel depressed and lonely. I do not know what to do. And then I think this loneliness leads me to other problems.”
Boo-fricken-hoo for the incompetent boob. The Post uncatalogued his education and privilege;
Farouk1986 wrote about considering applications to U.S. and British universities, including University College London, where officials said Abdulmutallab enrolled in a mechanical engineering course from September 2005 to June 2008. He also wrote about his family’s wealth; Abdulmutallab’s father, Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, a frequent visitor to the United States, retired this year as chairman of First Bank of Nigeria and still sits on the boards of several prominent Nigerian firms.
Yet with all of that education, opportunity and a month spent training in Yemen, the retard couldn’t blow his own balls off. At this point, I don’t think we need to waste time trying to mitigate his actions for him. It’s pretty clear that he’s guilty since he’s wearing the scars of his failures. I’m against the death penalty, but this doofus tests my convictions.
The Washington Times reports that an al Qaeda group in Yemen took credit for the attack;
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, a group that claims loyalty to Osama bin Laden, said in posts left on jihadist Web forums that the plot against Northwest Airlines Flight 253 was launched in response to recent “American aggression” in Yemen, which has been the site of recent U.S. predator drone attacks.
Yeah, well, the drone attacks were in response to countless acts of Muslim agression, dimbulb.
The group boasted that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab managed to avoid detection by screening machines when he boarded a plane in Amsterdam bound for Detroit with “a technologically advanced [explosive] device” hidden in his underpants.
The device was so “technologically advanced” that it couldn’t be detonated by the panty bomber after a month’s training.
The Yemeni group claims the attempt was in response to drones, but I’m guessing their Iranian masters timed the event to give cover to their own crackdown in Tehran. Afterall, the guy had been training for a month before the drones attacked terrorist compounds.
I have an internet feed that tracks a good number of the anti-war bozos and the news all this weekend has blared out headlines that “The US military is exhausted”. All of the far Left, anti-war blogs (by “all” I mean literally hundreds of cut and paste blogs) are running an Al-Jazeera article by that title written by Sarah Lazare, who happens to be the “project coordinator” for Courage to Resist – a band of smelly hippies who help the military’s derelicts be derelict.
But anyway, her contention is that the military is just worn out from the war. Of course, the best way to spread that kind of lie is on Al-Jazeera, which has a stake in the defeat of the US military, Besides no semi-legitimate news organization would give the hairy-legged Lazare a column inch for this kind of tripe;
Many from within the ranks are openly declaring that they have had enough, allying with anti-war veterans and activists in calling for an end to the US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, with some active duty soldiers publicly refusing to deploy.
This growing movement of military refusers is a voice of sanity in a country slipping deeper into unending war.
Many? She counts two – Victor Agosto and Travis Bishop. Seems to me if there are “many” she’d have more stories than those two. Digging a little deeper, I found she’s been collaborating with Dahr Jamail who has also been trying to pimp the story that the military is on the verge of complete collapse because of all of the desertions – based on interviews he did five and six years ago with stellar troops like Geogg “Stolen Valor” Millard.
Of course, Lazare sees the real reason for the US war in the Middle East as a war of imperialism;
The never-ending nature of this conflict belies the real project of establishing US dominance in the Middle East and control of the region’s resources, at the expense of the Afghan civilians and US soldiers being placed in harm’s way.
The region’s resources. Because every imperial power needs a major shit hole to administrate. Our children are always demanding newer sources of sand and rocks for their playground antics.
Lazare, you’re an idiot – I don’t mean that as an insult. It’s the closest thing to a compliment I could summon.