ShoreBank, Sharia Law and Bank Bailouts

We all know what the words “debt,” “taxpayer,” and “interest” mean, but how many people know what the words “jizya”, “dhimmi” and “Grameen” mean? In order to understand the precipice of disaster that the banking system is resting upon today, one must understand all these words, and then some. No solution can be found by only understanding the first three. Only an illusion of understanding exists until the latter, and more, like “jihad” and “Sharia Law”, are considered.

The jizya amounts to a tax paid by Non-Muslims to Muslims in order that they may live in peace. A fair comparison is money paid by business owners to neighborhood thugs in order to gain protection. Think Mob. Engaging in this endeavor creates the status of dhimmi – a willingly subservient protected group of third class subjects. Let’s just call this what it is – extortion based slavery. Let us also understand that this is an endgame of this thing called “jihad”.

From the Koran:

(9:29) – “Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.”

(30:39)  And whatever you lay out as usury, so that it may increase in the property of men, it shall not increase with Allah; and whatever you give in charity, desiring Allah’s pleasure– it is these (persons) that shall get manifold.

(3:130) O you who believe! do not devour usury, making it double and redouble, and be careful of (your duty to) Allah, that you may be successful

(2:275) Those who swallow down usury cannot arise except as one whom  Shaitan has prostrated by (his) touch does rise. That is because they say, trading is only like usury; and Allah has allowed trading and forbidden usury. To whomsoever then the admonition has come from his Lord, then he desists, he shall have what has already passed, and his affair is in the hands of Allah; and whoever returns (to it)– these arc the inmates of the fire; they shall abide in it.

You get the idea.

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Tags: Allah, bailout, banking, dhimmi, Economy
Posted Mar 4th 2010 at 5:37 am in Culture, Economics, Featured Story, Justice/Legal, News, Politics, federal spending | 8285095 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/centralillinois912project/2010/03/04/shorebank-sharia-law-and-bank-bailouts/ShoreBank%2C+Sharia+Law+and+Bank+Bailouts2010-03-04+13%3A37%3A12Central+Illinois++9%2F12+Project

Israel’s Increasingly Dangerous Neighborhood

I was invited to speak on 21st century missile threats and defenses at the recent 7th annual Jerusalem Conference, 2010, held at the Regency Hotel on Mt. Scopus, in the city of David, but I was pleased as well to hear a wide variety of experts (speeches are delivered in English and Hebrew with convenient wireless earphone translation headsets).

This gathering is rooted in historic Zionism, the meaning of the land of Israel, and the spiritual meaning of Jerusalem. Many Israeli statesman and American political leaders come to address current security crises, as well as existential questions ever-present for the Jewish state still facing war.

The Palestinian Front

On the Palestinian front, many now believe that the idea of a small PLO state within the 1967 borders, to include Gaza, major parts of the West Bank and east Jerusalem, has lost its appeal within Araby.

Radical Islamism, unrealistic expectations, and daily incitement against Israel in mosques, the media, and madrassas, have all added up to another era of Palestinian intransigence and irredentism.

Unfortunately, the drive for Palestinian independence has not been equated with responsible state building leading to the kind of sovereignty that would help the Palestinian people themselves.

Palestinians universally wish to cast Israel off their shoulders, but this does not mean they support a fair division of land, or a desire to live in peaceful coexistence with a Jewish state in the middle east.

Israeli journalist and commentator Ehud Ya’ari stated that the Palestinians have now fully collapsed into the unwilling arms of the Israelis, and that Israel must urgently solve the seemingly unsolvable.

Israel is today faced with a reverse annexation: It is the Palestinians who have decided to annex Israel, because Israel did not annex them first.

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Tags: abu mazen, AIPAC, ayatollah sistani, bernard lewis, chas freeman
Posted Feb 28th 2010 at 9:57 am in History, News | 81954315 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/lgreenfield/2010/02/28/israels-increasingly-dangerous-neighborhood/Israel%27s+Increasingly+Dangerous+Neighborhood2010-02-28+17%3A57%3A30Larry+Greenfield

CAIR Smears CPAC Event

At the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2010, Robert Spencer and I are launching a new organization, the Freedom Defense Initiative (FDI), by presenting a conference entitled “Jihad: The Political Third Rail — What They Are Not Telling You.” The conference is designed to speak the truths that others will not speak – and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is enraged.

The conference is designed to educate Americans about the Muslim Brotherhood’s infiltration at the highest levels of the U.S. government, as well as its war on free speech: its attempt to silence and discredit those who speak up against the jihad and Sharia encroachment in the West. Emphasis will be on the international character of the jihad against the West and on how the Islamic war on free speech (and the media’s self-imposed blackout on this issue, as in the Fort Hood massacre) is part and parcel of the same jihad against the West that terrorists are pursuing by violent means.

And that’s too much for CAIR. Ibrahim Hooper, the spokesman for the unindicted co-conspirator and front for the Muslim Brotherhood CAIR (the Council on American-Islamic Relations), said, “They’re free to be anti-Muslim bigots if they like, but it’s really up to the organizers of CPAC to determine if they’re going to allow their conference to be associated with the hate-filled views of those who will be speaking.”

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Tags: CAIR, CIA, Council on American Islamic Relations, FBI, Grover Norquist
Posted Feb 18th 2010 at 7:51 am in Culture, Defense, News | 76946277 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/pgeller/2010/02/18/cair-smears-cpac-event/CAIR+Smears+CPAC+Event2010-02-18+15%3A51%3A06Pamela+Geller

The U.S. Government: Willfully Blind to the Jihad

They knew. Two years before the Fort Hood jihad massacre, the Army knew of jihadis in its ranks — and did nothing.

Investigative reporter Bill Gertz has revealed: “Almost two years before the deadly Fort Hood shooting by a radicalized Muslim officer, the U.S. Army was explicitly warned that jihadism — Islamic holy war — was a serious problem and threat to personnel in the U.S., according to participants at a major Army-sponsored conference.”

Over 350 Army officials involved in counterterror efforts attended this February 2008 conference. One of the speakers, Lt. Colonel Joseph Myers, explains the topic of his lecture: “I noted that because of our lack of understanding of Islamic doctrines, Islamic Jihad and my view that our counterintelligence function is broken, outdated and being usurped in some cases by public affairs and equal opportunity officials, we were going to get soldiers killed in America, on our own bases for that professional ignorance.”

And that’s just what happened at Fort Hood.

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Tags: bill gertz, CIA, dar al islam, FBI, fort hood
Posted Feb 10th 2010 at 2:31 pm in Culture, Defense, News | 73218197 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/pgeller/2010/02/10/the-u-s-government-willfully-blind-to-the-jihad/The+U.S.+Government%3A+Willfully+Blind+to+the+Jihad2010-02-10+22%3A31%3A20Pamela+Geller

The Toothless Visas Viper

After a series of successful and unsuccessful jihad attacks across this great nation, on Christmas day the crotch bomber struck, attempting to explode a bomb hidden in his underwear while landing in Detroit on Northwest Flight 253. And so after months of ignoring the jihad against America and pretending that nothing was happening, Barack Obama sprang into action — with useless, toothless reform.

In the wake of the Christmas Day bomber’s attempted attack, the US Visas Viper terrorist reporting program criteria have been broadened.

The Visas Viper program is used by the Department of State and other national agencies to place on “watch lists” known or suspected international terrorists in unclassified and classified government look out systems such as CLASS (Consular Lookout and Support Systems).

So it’s a good thing that Obama is broadening the criteria for reporting terrorists in this program, isn’t it? Actually, no. Make no mistake: it is not going to help whatsoever. Obama’s “tough” new criteria don’t let us filter out potential terrorists using minimal profiling criteria.

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Tags: Barack Obama, Christmas terror attack, Detroit terror attack, Gitmo, global warming
Posted Jan 15th 2010 at 9:34 am in Defense, Obama | 6021445 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/pgeller/2010/01/15/the-toothless-visas-viper/The+Toothless+Visas+Viper++2010-01-15+17%3A34%3A20Pamela+Geller

A Path to Jihad: From Gitmo, To Saudi Arabia, To IRAN, To Yemen

Americans fancy the idea that while we might have been asleep prior to 9/11/2001, now our eyes are wide open and we are on alert. This is a pipe dream.

If people’s eyes were truly open, they would be closely examining the path Gitmo detainee Said Ali al-Shihri took to Yemen, where we are now learning he helped plan the Christmas Jihad.

Said reportedly left Gitmo, went through “rehabilitation” in Saudi Arabia, then moved to Iran before ending up as a leader of al-Qaeda in Yemen.

For example, Said Ali al-Shihri left Gitmo in 2007 and became a patient in Saudi Arabia’s terrorist rehabilitation program. Upon graduation, he went to Iran, and then became the deputy leader of Al-Qaeda in Yemen. Abdullah al-Qarawi following a similar path, also traveling to Iran after finishing the program, where he know oversees over 100 Saudi Al-Qaeda operatives. Mohammed al-Oufi, a former Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula commander, also was released from Gitmo. Luckily, he defected later and informed the Saudis about Iran’s secret involvement with Al-Qaeda in Yemen and a plot to bomb the Saudi oil infrastructure. [READ MORE...]

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Tags: 9-11 attacks, Al Qaeda, Camp Gitmo, Christmas terror attack, Gitmo
Posted Dec 31st 2009 at 6:47 am in Culture, Defense, News | 5373098 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/amarcus/2009/12/31/a-path-to-jihad-from-gitmo-to-saudi-arabia-to-iran-to-yemen/A+Path+to+Jihad%3A+From+Gitmo%2C+To+Saudi+Arabia%2C+To+IRAN%2C+To+Yemen2009-12-31+14%3A47%3A04Andrew++Marcus

America’s Drone War In Yemen: Al-Jazeera’s Take

This fascinating news segment produced by al-Jazeera (aka Jihad TV) highlights how the US drone war in Yemen has inspired a renewed front in the Jihad against America.

This report is interesting because even as it parrots the Jihad narrative, it provides more in depth background information and perspective on American, Saudi, and Iranian involvement in Yemen than anything we have seen from just about any US “news” outlet.

What a sad comment on the state of US/Western media, that “Jihad TV” is a better source of information pertinent to this aspect of the world war we are engaged in.

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Tags: Al Qaeda, al-Jazeera, drone war, drones, House of Saud
Posted Dec 29th 2009 at 7:37 am in Defense, Media Criticism, News | 5298693 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/amarcus/2009/12/29/americas-drone-war-in-yemen-al-jazeeras-take/America%27s+Drone+War+In+Yemen%3A+Al-Jazeera%27s+Take2009-12-29+15%3A37%3A34Andrew++Marcus

US Response To Failed Christmas Jihad Is So 9/10

President Bill Clinton should be cut a lot of slack when it comes to 9/11. Sure the attack was planned under his watch, and sure President Clinton cowardly avoided taking custody of Osama bin Laden when Sudan offered him on a platter.

The truth of the matter is that prior to the 9/11 Jihad attack, there was no way in the world the American people would have stood for the large scale war that was necessary in order to fight this new kind of Jihad army.

Think about it this way, even after the Jihadis have murdered thousands upon thousands of people all around the world, including here in America on 9/11, the American Left still think it’s all America’s fault and that we deserved it, and therefore we have no legitimate right to fight back. Just image how much resistance there would have been toward going into Afghanistan prior to 9/11.

Add to the whack-o Left the fact that the Right would have accused Clinton of simply trying to distract attention away from his perjury case, and it should be obvious that Clinton didn’t have much political capital in reserve to convince the country that a preemptive war was necessary to avoid a large scale attack against an American city.

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Tags: 9-11 attacks, Afghanistan, Bill Clinton, Detroit terror attack, Ft. Hood Shooting
Posted Dec 27th 2009 at 2:09 pm in Defense, History, Politics | 52518171 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/amarcus/2009/12/27/us-response-to-failed-christmas-jihad-is-so-910/US+Response+To+Failed+Christmas+Jihad+Is+So+9%2F102009-12-27+22%3A09%3A59Andrew++Marcus

Media Matters Throws Hostage Gilad Shalit Under The Bus

Once again, Media Matters’ evil twin – Media Matters Action Network – has penned a horribly offensive anti-Israel blog post: Compassion for Gilad Shalit Is Commendable But Easy [December 22, 2009 3:24 pm ET by MJ Rosenberg]

The gist of the entry is that anyone can feel compassion for hostage Gilad Shalit, but it takes a real humanitarian to feel compassion for Hamas.

Reading the first paragraph is like pulling back the curtain for a frightening peek into the ethically barren back room of Media Matters:

The year ends with Israel obsessively focusing on the captured soldier, Gilad Shalit. He has been held by Hamas for over three years and, with the help of Israel’s sensationalist media, the entire country seems to be in a fury over the boy’s continued captivity.

Wow! Israel is “obsessed” with their citizen being held hostage by an Islamist-terrorist group, all thanks to Israeli tabloid journalism paying too much attention to the subject. This is awfully dismissive of a nation’s grief over the fate of one of its own citizens, but what is the fate of one Jew worth when people are suffering  somewhere else? To Media Matters, apparently very little [emphasis added]:

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Tags: Egypt, Gaza, Gilad Shalit, Hamas, Hostage
Posted Dec 23rd 2009 at 2:13 pm in Culture, Media Criticism | 5133844 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/amarcus/2009/12/23/media-matters-throws-hostage-gilad-shalit-under-the-bus/Media+Matters+Throws+Hostage+Gilad+Shalit+Under+The+Bus2009-12-23+22%3A13%3A04Andrew++Marcus

Media Matters: Progressives Take A Courageous Stand Against Israel

Media Matters’ evil twin, Media Matters Action Network, has posted a disgustingly biased screed, casting Israel as a villain in a vacuum:

Progressives Speak Out On Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

December 18, 2009 5:07 pm ET by MJ Rosenberg

This week there was new evidence that mainstream progressives are confronting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.  After years of silence on the issue, progressives are coming around to understanding that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not just a “Jewish” or “Muslim” issue but one that affects all Americans.

We have to jump in here for a moment to point out that the conflict is exactly a “Jewish” and “Muslim” issue.  Because of the Muslim concepts of Jihad, Infidels, and Dhimmitude, an uncountable number of Muslims feel humiliated by the reality of Jewish self determination on what they consider to be “Muslim land.” They really don’t like that a group of Judeo-Christian infidels from the US help support the Jew infidels of Israel.  They have vowed to recognize no boundary in their depravity as they relentlessly drive for their final solution to this Infidel transgression.

It would be more honest to have a debate as to whether the Islamists will stop hating us if we stop supporting the Israeli Jew Infidels, but attempting to portray the conflict as anything other than as described above is either naive or dishonest. We leave it to you to determine which applies best to the Media Matters Mafia.

Now back to our regularly scheduled bias:

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Tags: Israel, jihad, Media Matters, Palestinians, Progressive
Posted Dec 20th 2009 at 10:08 am in Politics | 49622144 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/amarcus/2009/12/20/media-matters-progressives-take-a-courageous-stand-against-israel/Media+Matters%3A+Progressives+Take+A+Courageous+Stand+Against+Israel2009-12-20+18%3A08%3A38Andrew++Marcus

Nidal Hasan: It’s Not Islam, It’s a ‘Military on the Brink’?

President Obama has pleaded for the country not to go “jumping to conclusions” about Major Nidal Hasan’s motives for his murder spree at Fort Hood, Texas. Even Army Chief of Staff General Casey has said that it’s “too soon to be drawing any conclusions about what happened or what his motivations were.”

But it doesn’t seem to early for the Imam that headed the Mosque in Virginia that Hasan and several of the 9/11 terrorists once attended. Anwar al-Awlaki, once the Imam of Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Virginia, has released a statement saying that Nidal Hasan “did the right thing” with his criminal rampage at Fort Hood. Anwar al-Awlaki is thought to be in Yemen having left the U.S. shortly after 9/11.

It is, of course, infuriating that our government refuses to see the obvious. In fact, this incident itself proves that even the Army is so afraid of being charged with political incorrectness that it allowed this jihadist Major to roil in his radical jihadism for some time without being opposed by his superiors.

This attitude of refusing to see the forest for the trees is best exemplified by Andrew Bast of Newsweek who thinks he’s got the real reason behind Major Nidal Hasan’s murderously criminal rampage at Fort Hood last Thursday. Could it be that Hasan was steadily radicalized and steeped in hateful Islamofascism? Could it be a jihad mindset that sent Hasan into that military clinic yelling Allahu Akbar as he shot at anyone that got in his way?

Nope. Ridiculously, it was a “military on the brink,” it was the “stress” an uncaring U.S. military is forcing upon its members that was at fault as far as Bast is concerned. This is his obtuse conclusion in Newsweek’s piece headlined, “Is Fort Hood a Harbinger? Nidal Malik Hasan May Be a Symptom of a Military on the Brink.”

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Tags: Andrew Bast, Anwar al-Awlaki, Army Chief of Staff, Dar al-Hijrah, fort hood
Posted Nov 11th 2009 at 7:03 am in Defense, Media Criticism, News, Obama | 2784682 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/wthuston/2009/11/11/nidal-hasan-its-not-islam-its-a-military-on-the-brink/Nidal+Hasan%3A+It%27s+Not+Islam%2C+It%27s+a+%27Military+on+the+Brink%27%3F2009-11-11+14%3A03%3A25Warner+Todd++Huston

Chicago Mayor Daley Blames Fort Hood On America’s Love Of Guns!

On Monday, Chicago Mayor Daley blamed the Ft. Hood Jihad Massacre on America’s love of guns!

“Unfortunately, America loves Guns. We love guns to a point where that uh we see devastation on a daily basis. You don’t blame a group.”

The Mayor is using a straw-man argument that conveniently provides him with an opportunity to politicize the terrorist attack as part and parcel with America’s love of guns.

Mayor Daley, and other politicians, like to blame gun violence on the guns themselves because that is so much easier than admitting any inconvenient (politically incorrect) truths which might be revealed if they were to place blame where it belongs.

Kids murdering each other in the inner city? That’s because of guns, not the War On Drugs which turns poor children into black market drug distributing gang members.

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Tags: Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, gun control, jihad, political correctness, terrorism
Posted Nov 10th 2009 at 10:57 am in Culture, Defense, Politics | 281781,255 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/amarcus/2009/11/10/chicago-mayor-daley-blames-fort-hood-on-americas-love-of-guns/Chicago+Mayor+Daley+Blames+Fort+Hood+On+America%E2%80%99s+Love+Of+Guns%212009-11-10+17%3A57%3A45Andrew++Marcus

Obama’s Rush to Judgment

Barack Hussein Obama has advised us not to rush to judgment about the massacre at Fort Hood. “We don’t know all the answers yet. And I would caution against jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts,” said the President in a statement he delivered from the Rose Garden (while George W. Bush was in Fort Hood).

Obama doesn’t want us to jump to the conclusion that the shootings at Fort Hood were a terrorist attack by an Islamic jihadist, Major Nidal Hasan. Obama would rather we forgot that Nidal Hasan screamed “Allah akbar” before he mowed down scores of patriotic Americans and gave away Qurans with his business card before his act of jihad. Hasan also gave his landlord two week’s notice – showing that he planned this for a long time. He didn’t just snap.

Obama wants us to ignore that Hasan went to a mosque where a jihadist imam preached hatred of America. The same imam was “spiritual adviser” for three of the 9/11 hijackers who attacked America on Sept 11, 2001. Obama would rather we didn’t know that when Hasan was asked his nationality, he didn’t identify himself as an American, but as a Palestinian. Obama doesn’t want us to rush to judgment about how Hasan spoke approvingly of the shooting death by an Islamic jihad terrorist of a Little Rock Army recruiter in June. Obama doesn’t us to draw any conclusions from how Hasan reportedly was heard saying, “maybe people should strap bombs on themselves and go to Times Square.”

But Obama says, don’t rush to judgment.

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Tags: Bush, Camp david, fort hood, fort hood shooting, Gates
Posted Nov 9th 2009 at 1:14 pm in Culture, Defense, News, Obama, Uncategorized | 27390187 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/pgeller/2009/11/09/obamas-rush-to-judgment/Obama%E2%80%99s+Rush+to+Judgment2009-11-09+20%3A14%3A43Pamela+Geller

Obama’s Pet Goat Moment

For the Left, one of the most defining images of the previous administration can be summed up in three words “ My Pet Goat.”

If you remember, when President Bush was informed of the second plane crashing into the World Trade Center, while his photo op with school children at the Emma  E. Booker elementary school was about to start. For the next several minutes, (much maligned by Michael Moore, in “Faranheit 9/11″) we saw a man confused by the situation. It has been joked about by comedians as him wanting to see how the story ended.

Every time I watch this footage, I always saw a strong man, who knew that twenty school children had looked forward to their chance to read to the President, for weeks. He decided they would not be disappointed. And knowing that this was an attack on the United States, the President did his best to neither disappoint nor alarm the children.

I’ve always imagined his narcissistic predecessor bolting straight out of the room and into a bunker, stepping over any children in his path. In reality, what could the President do? In that moment of confusion there really was nothing that could be done, other than have him sit there uncomfortably, and pretend that everything was normal. It takes a strong man not to flinch under adversity.

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Tags: 9-11 attacks, allah akbar, Barack Obama, dr. joe medicine crow, Ft. Hood Shooting
Posted Nov 9th 2009 at 10:07 am in Culture, Media Criticism, News, Obama, Politics | 27702260 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/tslagle/2009/11/09/obamas-pet-goat-moment/Obama%E2%80%99s+Pet+Goat+Moment2009-11-09+17%3A07%3A35Tim+Slagle

Why You Should Care About CAIR….

Over the next month, we will be exposing new evidence about the activities of the Council on American Islamic Relations, known as CAIR.  The evidence – and ensuing requests for formal investigations of CAIR – will be submitted to members of Congress, to the Departments of Justice and Treasury, as well as to the public here at Big Government.  To set the scene, here’s a brief “CAIR for Dummies” backgrounder  from author Paul Sperry, whose just-published best-seller Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that’s Conspiring to Islamize America unmasks CAIR and its foreign backers:

The Council on American-Islamic Relations bills itself as a “civil-rights advocacy group,” much like the NAACP, but for Muslims

However, the FBI says that far from being a benign nonprofit, CAIR is a front group for Hamas terrorists and the radical Muslim Brotherhood in America. And the bureau recently cut off formal ties to CAIR’s national office in Washington and all 30 of its branch offices across the country.

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Tags: Council on American Islamic Relations, Dubai, FBI, Hamas, Holy Land Foundation
Posted Oct 28th 2009 at 12:00 pm in Congress, Defense, Justice/Legal | 2107065 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/fgaffney/2009/10/28/why-you-should-care-about-cair/Why+You+Should+Care+About+CAIR....2009-10-28+19%3A00%3A13Frank+Gaffney