Flashback: Dick Durbin Says CAIR “Unusual In Its Extreme Rhetoric And Association With Groups That Are Suspect”…
Fast forward to March 2010 and we have Durbin meeting with two unindicted conspirators in the 2008 Holy Land Fund trial (pictured below) and penning a letter of support to CAIR.
(Daily Caller) — The number two Senate Democrat, Richard Durbin, has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday to highlight claims of anti-Muslim discrimination, but his primary Muslim witness has publicly excused a U.S. imam for revealing an FBI investigation to a Muslim suspected-terrorist.
Durbin’s bungled choice for lead witness is another in a series of Democratic flubs that have paired top Democrats with anti-democratic, terror-excusing Islamists in the United States. According to a report released today by the non-profit Investigative Project on Terrorism, Durbin has already added to the flubs this year by visiting a mosque in Bridgeview, Ill., and posing for a photo with two Islamists who were named as unindicted conspirators in an Islamist project to smuggle funds to the Hamas Muslim terror group.
Hamas is an orthodox and militant Muslim terror group that controls the Gaza strip. Since it seized control in 2007, it has allowed numerous missile attacks on Israeli civilian targets and it has established an apartheid-like system of laws that cite Koranic texts to justify formal and informal discrimination and abuse against women, gays and Christians.
According to the IPT’s report, Durbin’s meeting with the Hamas-linked Muslims took place at the Mosque Foundation in Bridgeview, Ill. The mosque’s website shows a picture, dated March 1, of Durbin posing with nine suited men, and two women wearing dark-cozveralls and tight white scarves. The men include the mosque’s director, Jamal Said, and the mosque’s imam, Kifah Mustapha, according to the IPT report.
Both men were declared to be unindicted conspirators in the 2008 Holy Land Fund trial, which resulted in guilty verdicts for five men who smuggled $12 million to Hamas. The fund’s two founders were both sentenced to 65 years in jail. . . .
Other Democrats have been more careful. In a September 2003 hearing, for example, New York Sen. Charles Schumer declared that “we know [CAIR] has ties to terrorism.” At the same hearing, Durbin declared “from what I have read [CAIR] is unusual in its extreme rhetoric and its association with groups that are suspect.”
Posted by ZIP on Monday, March 28, 2011, at 2:58 pm | 
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There is no need for cover up when [bought and paid for] “Dirty Dick” is in charge.
His loyalty goes to the highest bidder.
Selective amnesia will win everytime when it comes to major donors and their $$ to your reelection campaign. Shame, shame, shame, on Turbin Durbin.
Do we even need to commend?!
Utter farce. What? Anwar al-Alwaki wasn’t available to be the first witness called?
Just days before the attacks of Sept 11, the FBI ordered the computer servers of the Holyland Foundation shut down.
CAIR immediately filed a complaint because it’s website was located on that same server.
Looks like he did a Charles Johnson.
Turbin Durbin gives slugs a good name.
“Shame, shame, shame, on Turbin Durbin.”
The shame belongs to the Americans who vote for these politicians.
Steve Emerson exposes Senator Dick Durbin providing political cover to radical Islamists.
http://www.securefreedomradio.org/2011/03/28/steve-emerson-exposes-durbin-hearings-as-political-cover/
From the transcript of Emerson’s appearance on the Frank Gaffney Show (at the same link):
“STEVEN EMERSON: Not only cover, let me go further. [Durbin] issued a statement several years ago, if you remember, when the Attorney General guidelines were reinterpreted and revised to allow the FBI not to have their hands tied behind their back. And gave them a little bit more leeway in making connections between people in their database that had radical Islamic backgrounds and were in contact with people connected to these groups in the United States. So, a press conference was held by Senator Dick Durbin accusing the FBI of engaging in a behavior that allowed them to simply arrest Muslims only on the basis of race without any type of criminal evidence.
FRANK GAFFNEY: Whoa.
STEVEN EMERSON: And a critique that was demonstrably and a hundred percent wrong—and proven wrong by even the ACLU. So this is a man who is reckless, who has been protective of radical Islam. I mean, the more I read about it—I’ll be frank with you, I did not expect to read and find out as much bad information and his protection of radical Islam. He has a woman who works on his staff named Reema Deedin. D-e-e-d-i-n. Okay? She sends out e-mails under her own e-mail. Not the government’s e-mail. Which are e-mails reflecting the Muslim Brotherhood’s views in the United States. Their front groups, that is. She doesn’t mention the MB. But she sends out critiques, she attacks Peter King. This is a woman that should not be in the US, should not be working as a staff member. Certainly her activities on the staff while she’s working for Senator Durbin is either tolerated by him and if it isn’t tolerated by him, she should be fired. But it, frankly, it’s consistent with his whole entire policy of the last seven years of protecting radical Islamic groups.”
http://bahaicause.blogspot.com/2011/03/illinois-lawmakers-introduce-house-and.html
Turbin Durbin only cares about the New World Order and the Progressive Faith that encapsulates the misguided desires of the ruling class to make Christianity and Judaism obsolete……
Anyone else find it strange that the politicians have lots of time and energy to support this particular faith?
I do, but I’m not exactly pro-NWO…
Liberals and progressives, never have to live by what they say an hour earlier. And they get away with it! This is nuts!
The time to round up the muslims comes ever closer……………….
round em up , take out the muslim trash