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December 26, 2005

US Authorities go soft on Muslim conference returnees

[Link to interesting video in extended post]
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A group of Muslim-Americans, detained a year ago en route home from an Islamic conference in Toronto, crossed back over the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge without incident early Sunday morning. Although last year they were detained and extensively questioned, this year they passed through in a virtual cake walk, a result of a what appears to be a softening on the part of U.S. officials, following a law suit by the Muslims over the occurance (that the Muslims lost).

This years crossing without extensive questioning is occurring even though the Muslims lost the last year's law suit. A federal judge has ruled against a group of Muslim-Americans who asked him to guarantee they will not be harassed at the border after attending the Reviving the Islamic Spirit convention in Toronto this weekend.

Last December, some who attended the conference said they were treated like terrorists and detained for hours at the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge. On Thursday, District Judge William M. Skretny refused to tell U.S. Homeland Security officials they cannot conduct the same kind of inspections of people returning from this year's conference. He also granted summary judgment in favor of Homeland Security, dismissing the lawsuit filed by four Muslim-Americans from Western New York and one from Brooklyn.

Apparently, most of the people attending the "Reviving the Islamic Spirit" convention, held at the National Trade Centre in Toronto Canada from December 23 to 25, 2005, were returning Sunday night and today.

Robert at Lost Budgie posted on Friday about Tariq Ramadan, one of the featured speakers at the convention, who has said that "Killing 8-year-old Jewish children is "contextually explicable."

The Italian magazine Panorama interviewed Tariq Ramadan and published an article in the September 23, 2004 issue, entitled "The art of 'explaining' the killing of Jews." Ramadan screamed about being misquoted, but unfortunately for him the whole interview had been recorded.

Daniel Pipes commented at the time, "It's case closed on the matter of both Ramadan's being moderate or truthful. He is neither one nor the other."

Of additional interest to Americans concerned with our national security, which of course includes all of us except moonbat Democrats and their mouthpiece - the liberal media, Robert reminds us that the US Department of Homeland Security banned Tariq Ramadan from entering the United States. However, this doesn't prevent him from spewing his venom across the border in Canada.

Robert has additional commentary on one of the speakers.

For a real treat of the kind of people that were looking forward to the conferance, and their Islamist slants, check out this forum.

AND YOU DEFINATELY NEED TO CHECK OUT THE TRAILER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Be sure to watch all of it.

CAIR has encouraged all conference attendees to print out this BORDER INCIDENT form and have it with you handy to fill out if Muslims feel they have been discriminated against. (If the terrorist-supporting organization CAIR is for it, it's bad for the rest of America.)

Posted by Richard at December 26, 2005 11:38 AM

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