Posted on 01/02/2007 8:23:41 AM PST by Alouette
As the Bush administration squanders a trust, Democrats prepare a new “Sister Souljah Moment.”
By Andrew C. McCarthy
On a weekend when the Bush administration achieved a new CAIR-friendly low, a prominent Democrat, following the lead of other prominent Democrats, distanced herself very publicly from the unsavory Council on American-Islamic Relations.
The Transportation Security Administration is the executive agency created after 9/11 to protect American travelers. Yet, Americans viewing its website this weekend could not have felt very protected. Aghast, instead, would have been the proper response to this posting. As if snuggling up to CAIR, coercing our law-enforcement and intelligence professionals to endure CAIR’s Islamic “sensitivity training,” and inviting CAIR to weigh in on our nation’s foreign policy were not enough, we now have a Bush-administration agency publishing an unedited CAIR press release on publicly subsidized, official government Internet space.
In this instance, right under TSA’s emblem and a memorial banner depicting the late President Gerald R. Ford, Americans were treated to a news announcement beneath the big blue headline, “CAIR Welcomes TSA Hajj Sensitivity Training.” If you have the stomach for it, compare this TSA posting to the official CAIR press release from which it cribbed. They are identical.
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Article worth the read. Thanks, Alouette
What the heck's going on up there?
This pandering on the part of TSA is unbelievable. Who is in charge there, and what are they trying to prove? They lifted, intact, info from the CAIR press release and put it in a government press release without even bother to rewrite it, including praise for how wonderful CAIR is. So, you have to wonder who is in charge of their press shop, and who is in charge of this agency. And does the Bush administration even know this is going on?
CAIR = Collective Against Individual Rights
More from TSA website. You have wonder to whom this is aimed, or is it part of a TSA PR initiative to explain Islam to a wider audience? And in any case, why are US taxpayer paying for it?:
Hajj Travel Information
The Hajj is a significant religious event for Muslims and is one of the five pillars of Islam. Many observant Muslims perform Hajj, making a pilgrimage to Mecca and Madinah, two cities in Saudi Arabia. Each year, more than a million pilgrims take part in the Hajj, including thousands of Americans.
The travel period this year for the Hajj will likely commence several days before the December 21 onset of the pilgrimage (approximately December 16, 2006) and end several days after its December 30 conclusion (approximately January 6, 2007).
Many Muslims believe that the water from a well in Mecca is divinely blessed and often return with containers of water. Travelers returning from Hajj who wish to bring back water should pack it in their checked baggage if the container is larger than three ounces, pursuant to TSA’s 3-1-1 liquids regulations.
CAIR=
Cannibals, Assassins, Insurgents, and Rapists
Cartoons Always Incite Riots
Cowardly Anti-Semites Inspire Revulsion
Crying About Intolerance Relentlessly
Can't Admit Islam's Responsible
Churches Are Incinerated Regularly
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Next time, wear a burqa.
(Can't claim it as mine, read it somewhere...)
nitroglycerin - colorless, oily, highly explosive liquid. - tom
Someone remind me again why so many of us think W "gets" the W.O.T.? If the likes of Boxer and Durbin can say they have problems with CAIR, why can't Bush?
I just saw this on LGF. Unbelievable, isn't it?
I have some clear looking water here that is 190 proof. I do not think it will bless anyone.
btt
This pandering on the part of TSA is unbelievable. Who is in charge there, and what are they trying to prove?
Well, we know where the buck is supposed to stop.
Mind-bending absurdity to say the least.
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