Unindicted Terrorist Co-Conspirators: We Swear, We're Not Terrorists

Muslim terrorist frontgroup CAIR, along with several other dubious outfits, just can't stand it when they're exposed for what they are. The Hamas-linked unindicted co-conspirators have sent a strongly-worded letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales claiming they're being smeared, which, ironically is what they do to everyone who exposes their nefarious activities.

Let's hope the Justice Department has the spine to dismiss this.

Muslim Groups Oppose a List of ‘Co-Conspirators’

Two prominent Muslim American organizations took steps yesterday to reverse what they called a Justice Department effort to smear the entire Muslim community by naming some of its largest organizations as unindicted co-conspirators in a Texas terrorism trial.

The National Association of Muslim Lawyers, which is not named, sent a letter to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales objecting to the list, which it said breached the department’s own guidelines against releasing the names of unindicted co-conspirators and did not serve any clear law enforcement purpose.

The letter, also signed by the National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys, said the “overreaching list” of more than 300 organizations and individuals would further cripple charitable donations to Muslim organizations and could ratchet up the discrimination faced by American Muslims since the Sept. 11 attacks.

Of course, no evidence of any discrimination is provided, as usual.

In addition, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, which is on the list, announced that it would file a brief today asking Judge A. Joe Fish of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas to remove its name and all others from the list.

The brief, a copy of which was released yesterday, says the list furthers a pattern of the “demonization of all things Muslim” that has unrolled in the United States since 2001.

“Most people don’t understand what an unindicted co-conspirator is,” said Parvez Ahmed, CAIR’s board chairman, adding that the release of the list prompted death threats and hate mail against the council. “They think that being related to a terrorism case means we are terrorists.”

We understand exactly what an unindicted co-conspirator is, and yes, being related to a terrorism case may well mean you're terrorists.

Not too difficult to understand.

Friends of Hamas Accuse Bush of 'Islamophobia'

When you're an unindicted co-conspirator with a terrorist organization and your membership is dwindling rapidly, you do anything for attention.

Bush office is anti-Muslim, group says

A Muslim civil rights group today blamed Bush administration policies for promoting "Islamophobia" and said the "war on terror" won't stop terrorists.

"The new perception is that the United States has entered a war with Islam itself," said Parvez Ahmed, chairman of the national board of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

"Terrorism is a tactic. You cannot eradicate it by declaring a war against it. The war on terror is causing us infinitely more harm than the terrorists could have ever imagined."

Mr. Ahmed, who spoke at CAIR symposium at the National Press Club, said the war against terrorists is driven by an "irrational" fear that the Bush administration has inculcated in the American public. The chance of being killed in a terrorist attack, he said, is 1 in 80,000 over a lifetime.

"It is important to bear in mind that terrorists cannot destroy America," he said as a member of a panel discussing the symposium theme, "Attacking Islam: Implications for Social Cohesion and U.S. Relations with the Muslim World." The U.S., he said, is too powerful and too resourceful for terrorists to destroy.

I guess we have an irrational fear of his friends flying planes into buildings.

Or was that just my imagination?