The Best Propaganda Money CAIR Will Ever Spend
By Mitch Berg
Katherine Kersten on the propaganda value of the imam publicity blitz:
But the report on the Iranian website, which has appeared on a variety of Muslim websites worldwide, had a larger primary focus. After the imams incident, it quoted Bray as saying Muslims want “new, broad-sweeping legislation that will extract even larger financial and civil penalties for any airline that participates in racial and religious profiling.”
The report is optimistic that Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, will lend his support to new legislation. Ellison, it says, has expressed his opposition to “such racial and religious profiling.” Ellison, through a spokesman, declined to comment.
He’s wising up, at least.
And by the way, I’ll support such legislation!
(When the Iranians stop “profiling” Jews, Ba’hais, gays…
(From Cox and Forkum)
Kersten continues:
One piece of legislation in the works is the End Racial Profiling Act. It is an important priority of Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, whose district includes one of the largest Muslim populations in the country. Conyers introduced the bill in 2004 and 2005, but it went nowhere. Now the alignment of forces may be changing. Conyers will probably be chairman of the House Judiciary Committee when the new Democratic-controlled Congress convenes next month.
Nancy Pelosi, who called herself a “proud” cosponsor of the Profiling Act in 2004, is the incoming House speaker. And in January, Ellison, who represents the district where the imams incident occurred, will take his seat in Congress.
Watch for a determined effort to make the term “profiling” equal “discrimination” in the public mind.
December 14th, 2006 at 9:18 am
I have noticed that Ellison has either “declined to comment” or “did not respond immediately to this story” in a bunch of reports, some fairly innocuous. This could either be a sophisticated attempt to remain a cipher and throw his opponents off balance or that he doesn’t have a professional staff and office up and running yet and doesn’t want to create a new media storm without one.