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CAIR's Savior In The Congress

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
November 27, 2007

Homeland Security: The Council on American-Islamic Relations has enlisted Democratic Rep. John Conyers to help repair its terror-tainted image. But his help only invites more doubt.

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Terrorists would be hard-pressed to find a better friend in Washington. The House Judiciary Committee chairman wants to kill the Patriot Act, prevent the FBI from profiling Muslim suspects in terror probes, and even criminalize the "disrespect" of Islam.

Conyers represents the largest Arab population in the U.S. His district includes Dearborn, Mich. — nicknamed "Dearbornistan" because of its large influx of Middle Eastern immigrants and its constant focus of counterterror investigations.

Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., has long been a foe of tighter security laws. Now CAIR is turning to him for assistance.

Last decade, Conyers fought FBI outreach efforts in the Arab and Muslim community there, even though they were designed to gather intelligence on potential terror cells and protect the home front.

Conyers and other Detroit-area Democrats threatened to hold hearings unless the FBI stopped counterterror interviews. Bureau officials tried to explain the national security benefits of the program, but Conyers would have none of it. In the end, they backed off.

Today, Hamas, Hezbollah and the al-Qaida-tied Muslim Brotherhood are all active in the area.

As one of the top recipients of donations from the Arab-American Leadership PAC, Conyers not surprisingly has a long history of pandering to Arab and Muslim voters.

According to FEC records, Conyers has raked in at least $11,500 from the Arab-American PAC since 2000.

Little wonder that CAIR turned to the lawmaker for help in pressuring the Justice Department to change the group's status as a co-conspirator in a terrorism case.

CAIR officials recently met with Conyers and wrote a letter asking him to lobby the new attorney general on behalf of the group, the Washington Times reports.

CAIR and its founder, Omar Ahmad, were named as members of the Muslim Brotherhood and unindicted co-conspirators in a recent federal terror trial in Dallas targeting the Holy Land Foundation. Prosecutors say that's a terror front for Hamas. A founding director of CAIR, already serving time in another terror case, was charged in the case, which ended in a mistrial. But prosecutors say they will retry it.

CAIR says it's suffering negative publicity from the case, which is hurting membership and fundraising.

It can't get a federal judge to remove its name from the co-conpirators' list. So it's secretly collaborating with Conyers to clear its name. There's even talk of holding hearings to achieve that end.

Actually, that might not be a bad idea, assuming Conyers won't limit the scope of questions from the minority GOP counsel. It's been difficult to pin CAIR down on all the terror-related charges swirling around it, because its leaders in the past have refused invitations to testify under oath.

They've denied allegations they support terrorism. But now there's new evidence, thanks to declassified transcripts of wiretaps and other documents presented in the Holy Land case.

For instance, CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad has denied supporting Hamas. But for the first time, an FBI wiretap puts him at a secret meeting last decade in a Philadelphia hotel, where Hamas leaders joined Holy Land leaders in allegedly plotting to funnel money to the Palestinian terror group under the cover of charity.

If CAIR officials have nothing to hide, they shouldn't have any problem answering questions from Republicans under oath. That would help clear their name more than any planned lovefest with Conyers.