Posted on 03/07/2011 2:47:57 PM PST by SeekAndFind
RE: How about asking them to swear to the oath of allegience for our Constitution and openly denounce the political laws of Sharia
Good luck with that. Oklahoma actually passed a referendum banning Sharia law in their state. What did the Federal courts do? They issued restraining order barring the state from adopting a constitutional amendment voters actually passed.
In other words, men in robes OVERTURNED the will of the people.
If our courts cannot even uphold the will of the people, how much hope does this country have for the future?
Chicago at heart of home-grown ‘radical’ hearing
March 7, 2011 (CHICAGO) (WLS) — In Washington, the House Homeland Security Committee is preparing to convene a controversial hearing on whether young Muslim-Americans are being “radicalized” by foreign terrorists.
Islamic organizations say the government is unfairly singling them out.
In this Intelligence Report: Why Chicago is at the epicenter of the argument.
The counter-terrorism squad at the FBI in Chicago and the terrorism prosecution unit in the U.S. attorney’s office in Chicago currently have dozens of open investigations, nearly all of them involving radical Muslim suspects linked to overseas terror groups. Those cases currently in federal court have put Chicago on the radar at the center of Muslim extremist prosecutions in the U.S. and at the heart of the discussion this week on Capitol Hill.
“As chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, I don’t see I have any choice,” said Rep. Peter King, (R) New York. “I have to investigate, No. 1, How extensive is the radicalization? How is it done? What are the signs of radicalization? And is the leadership of the Muslim community cooperating with law enforcement?”
When Congressman King convenes the hearing on Thursday, the case of Chicagoan David Coleman Headley will be the most significant example of Muslim radicalization.
Headley was recruited by Muslim extremists in Pakistan and helped plot the deadly 2008 attack on Mumbai, India. He has pleaded guilty to recruiting Chicago businessman Tahawwur Rana to help in the plot. Rana is going on trial May 16.
They are among a half-dozen American defendants charged right now in Chicago cases as radical Islamists.
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/iteam&id=8000071&pt=print
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