The ACLU, whom advocate completely open borders, is taking the the Department of Homeland Security to Court over detaining interrogating, fingerprinting and photographing American citizens at the border because they attended a radical Islamic conferences that has hailed Bin Laden as a hero, and used in the past to provide cover for pro-terrorist operatives.

The two-day conference in January 2003 advertised Sheik Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais as the main speaker. The previous year, al-Sudais, the chief cleric of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, reportedly prayed to Allah to "terminate" the Jews whom he called "the scum of humanity, the rats of the world, prophet killers ... pigs and monkeys." The sheik also has characterized Jews as "evil," "evil forefathers," a "continuum of deceit," and full of "tyranny" and "treachery." Due to logistical problems, the sheik, the headliner of the event, missed the conference. Jeewan Chanicka, media relations director for the Toronto conference, called the sheik's absence "unfortunate."

The same conference featured Zulfiqar Ali Shah, the former president of the Islamic Circle of North America, an organization linked to Jama'at-I-Islami, a fundamentalist Pakistani group that calls bin Laden the "hero" of the Islamic world and raises millions of dollars for global jihad.

Mokhtar Maghroui, who spoke at an event featuring suicide-bombing supporters, also was a speaker at the last two RIS conferences.

The 2003 RIS conference featured William W. Baker, who was outed as a neo-Nazi by the Orange County Weekly. Via WND

Of course the plaintiffs in the case are claiming that they were detained simply for their religious beliefs.

"I was treated like a criminal for no other reason than because I was Muslim," said Dr. Sawsan Tabbaa, a Buffalo orthodontist.

Catherine Kim, ACLU staff attorney, argued the government "cannot criminalize American citizens for their religious beliefs."

"Americans need to know that they can practice their religion and attend religious conferences without fear of government reprisals," she said.

The ACLU can never see past their absolutism. Border control is paramount in our war against terrorism, and questioning people who wish to attend extremist religious conferences advocating pro-terror causes is not religious persecution. The ACLU are claiming....wait for it...(gasp!!!)..."some of the Muslims detained last year were held overnight for as long as six and a half hours"....Oh the horror!

I'm sure there will be some that disagree, however, questioning people crossing our borders to attend "religious conferences" that have been used as terrorist cover needs to happen. I agree with commentator, Daniel Pipes, on this one. He argues, "Were the plaintiffs to prevail in this case, attending religious conferences would instantly become the favored method for terrorists and other Islamists to cross the American border without hindrance."

Crossposted from Stop The ACLU

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