CAIR: Senate Engaged in 'McCarthyite Witch Hunt' Says Muslims;

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[chance33_98]

CAIR: Senate Engaged in 'McCarthyite Witch Hunt' Says Muslims; 24 U.S. Islamic Groups Targeted for IRS Tax, Donor Records

1/14/04 3:55:00 PM

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To: National Desk

Contact: Ibrahim Hooper of CAIR, 202-488-8787; 202-744-7726

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today accused a Senate committee of engaging in a "McCarthyite witch hunt" by seeking the IRS tax and donor records of 24 American Muslim charitable, youth and civic organizations. The Washington Post reports that the request "marks a rare and unusually broad use of the Finance Committee's (http://www.finance.senate.gov/) power to obtain private financial records held by the government."

SEE: "MUSLIM GROUPS' IRS FILES SOUGHT"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14205-2004Jan13.html

In a statement, the Washington-based civil rights and advocacy group said:

"The Senate Finance Committee's investigative net has been cast so wide that it seems to target all American Muslims as terrorism suspects. Its indiscriminate scope smacks of a McCarthyite witch hunt and creates the impression that the presumption of innocence no longer applies to Muslims.

"As in the past, the real test of America's commitment to equality before the law comes at times of national insecurity. We will pass that test if we reject demands, from any source, to single out Americans based on their race, religion or national origin."

CAIR, America's largest Islamic civil liberties group, is headquartered in Washington, D.C., and has 25 regional offices and chapters nationwide and in Canada.

CONTACT: Ibrahim Hooper, 202-488-8787 or 202-744-7726, e-mail: cair@cair-net.org; Rabiah Ahmed, 202-488-8787 or 202-439-1441, e-mail: rahmed@cair-net.org

NOTE: CAIR offers an e-mail list designed to be a journalist's window to the American Muslim community. Subscribers to the list, called ISLAM-INFONET, receive news releases and other materials dealing with American Muslim positions on issues of importance to our society.

To SUBSCRIBE to or UNSUBSCRIBE from this list, go to:

http://cair.biglist.com/islam-infonet/

To reach the list moderator, send a message to: cair@cair-net.org

[blam]

Do they know the Joe McCarthy was 100% correct?

[A Navy Vet]

Would you like cheese with that whine?

[reed_inthe_wind]

"Do they know the Joe McCarthy was 100% correct?"

Ann Coulter's book "treason" is very compelling. In fact, I wonder if the witch hunters were right as well.

[A Navy Vet]

Forgot to post: the "presumption of innocence" is hard to apply when your holy documents, the Quran and Hadith, specify a lack of innocence according to civilized standards, not to mention the almost not existant condemnation displayed by the Muslim world re: 9/11.

[Alouette]

Hey, CAIR! Some friendly advice.

[backhoe]

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[fatidic]

Totally agree with you.

I don't think CAIR should be seeking or exercising civil libiberties that Allah forbids.

[swarthyguy]

Squealing like a stuck pig, you might say.

What you minions of allah got to hide there, anyway?

Well, finally, even the Senate is stirred to move.

Better late than never.

[Land_of_Lincoln_John]

This is the second time I posted this this evening:

Make the Saudi-funded CAIR.

[MonroeDNA]

CAIR is a fifth column organization.

Their goal is the islamification of the western world.

[annyokie]

I was thinking: "cue tiny violin music."

[cwb]

Our liberal friends have taught them well. They have so much in common.

[Reactionary]

Ah. The Islamofascists learn quite well from liberals, it seems.

Strange, ain't it?