Congressman Andre Carson found himself in strange company Saturday evening when he was scheduled to be featured on a panel with a known Al-Qaeda webmaster and Taliban fundraiser, Mazen Mokhtar, during the just-concluded 2014 Muslim American Society/Islamic Circle of North America (MAS/ICNA) 2014 convention held in Chicago.The panel was titled “Ferguson is our issue: We Can’t Breath.”
Mokhtar is presumably well-known to Carson, one of two sitting Muslim members of Congress, since Mokhtar is well-known to the FBI.
In 2004, Mokhtar was named in a federal affidavit in the case of a UK-based Al-Qaeda website that raised money for the Taliban and other terrorist organizations.
According to the Washington Post:
Meanwhile, a New Jersey man is under investigation for having helped a British computer specialist, also arrested in London this week, allegedly solicit funds for a terrorist group by creating and operating an exact replica of the British man’s Web site.
Mazen Mokhtar, an Egyptian-born imam and political activist, operated a Web site identified in an affidavit unsealed Friday by the U.S. attorney’s office in Connecticut. The Web site solicited funds for the Taliban and Chechen mujaheddin, according to the affidavit. It is an exact replica of Web sites operated by Babar Ahmad, who was arrested in England on a U.S. extradition warrant this week.
The affidavit said the New Jersey home of the mirror Web site operator, identified on a Web site as Mokhtar, was searched in the recent past and that copies of Azzam Publications sites, operated by Ahmad, were found on Mokhtar’s computer’s hard drive and files.
Officials at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office, which is leading the investigation, declined yesterday to comment on Mokhtar or the New Jersey investigation.
Communists and Muslims have been keen to get in on the racial-unrest action stemming from the Ferguson and Staten Island incidents all along. Will the good people of Carson's district, inner-city Indianapolis, demand that he explain his presence at this event? Are there any to whom it will seem perfectly natural and even laudable?
We will find out who the real freedom haters are when the vote on funding a certain law voted in by a large majority I'm November becomes effective next year. I should think law enforcement has many higher priorities, but maybe the jaolers fear for their futures.
ReplyDeleteI'm unclear on the reference. What funding of a certain law was voted in?
ReplyDeleteI thought you knew. DC weed, man. Legal to grow it and share it. No big corps., no raxes. Only a God given right to cultivate and give to others. A groovy kind of love.
ReplyDeleteYou are engaged in some kind of bizarre attempt at self-deprecation, correct? That's the only possible explanation for bringing up something as inconsequential as marijuana policy in response to a post about a sitting member of Congress participating in a conference with known jihadists.
ReplyDeleteYou are engaged in some kind of bizarre attempt at self-deprecation, correct? That's the only possible explanation for bringing up something as inconsequential as marijuana policy in response to a post about a sitting member of Congress participating in a conference with known jihadists.
ReplyDeleteCalling Carson (Freedom Hater, IN) was so cute.
ReplyDeleteBecause your ilk are vicious personal freedom haters, kettles calling pots black. Most of the time, Congress leaves D.C. alone, but on social policy, congressional Republicans have been known to jump in. On abortion policy, the District is not allowed to use its own tax revenues to fund the procedure for low-income residents. Republicans in Congress blocked sales of medical marijuana in D.C. for 11 years.
ReplyDeleteIn the current Congress, Rep. Andy Harris (R) of Maryland is spearheading the effort to thwart legalized recreational marijuana in D.C. He claims “fairly broad-based support in Congress against legalization.”
But marijuana advocates aren’t taking this lying down. But, of course the true blue American sheep who don't smoke because, don't cha know, it's against the law, are taking it lying down on the couch watching the ads for the crap they're drinking along with their true red white and blue football.
Most of the time, Congress leaves D.C. alone, but on social policy, congressional Republicans have been known to jump in. On abortion policy, the District is not allowed to use its own tax revenues to fund the procedure for low-income residents. Republicans in Congress blocked sales of medical marijuana in D.C. for 11 years.
In the current Congress, Rep. Andy Harris (R) of Maryland is spearheading the effort to thwart legalized recreational marijuana in D.C. He claims “fairly broad-based support in Congress against legalization.”
As for Carson attending a meeting with people you don't like who want to murder us in our beds, what would you do, forbid him to?
Abortion is murder. It is definitionally impossible for homosexuals to marry. Studies continue to indicate that long-term marijuana use has detrimental health effects.
ReplyDeleteI would indeed forbid Carson from meeting with America's enemies. You defeat enemies, not serve on conference panels with them.
The Democrat party as currently constituted is based on a hatred of human freedom. Think about the spiritually hideous figures that lead it: Warren, Clinton, the MEC, Reid, Pelosi, Rangel. Monsters all.
ReplyDeleteEver look up the long term effects of alcohol? I know, Jesus dug it and he never mentioned marijuana, for good or ill. There is plenty of mention of the ills of alcohol. Hell, Noah bopped his own daughters drunk. "Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and those who are thereby deceived are not wise." But, hey Americans want to drink it and history has shown that Americans prevailed on what they want to do with their own gullets. What's the problem with weed? Is it worse?
ReplyDeleteAnd if the Democratic party is based on hatred of human freedom, why will the Republicans block a change in the law based on the overwhelming vote in the district? Oh, well, business as usual, or it will be even later in the day, it seems you say. The cattle masses will prevail on this issue. How about this: pass a law forbidding Americans to assemble with anyone they want to, or try arresting Andre Carson for attending a meeting under current laws and/or edicts. You got a good start on defeating evil last November. Now you can circle in for the kill. The cattle masses may continue to object. How bout that, cattle masses not doing what is best for them so superior mammals must dictate.
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Maybe the Freedom Lovers want their corporate or governmental taxation cut or maybe they like to keep their jails fully stocked. The DC law eliminates both corporations and government from the equation. It simply allows the cultivation of it and giving it away to friends. This measure was designed to fully legalize the possession and use of up to two ounces of marijuana and the possession and cultivation of up to three marijuana plants.Can't you even allow that? Also, the sky is not falling in Colorado. Yep, Republican freedom lovers cannot even allow that. A free vote by a substantial majority for just a little personal use. Look up the number of cattle you've penned over the years. That is why you are the true Freedom Haters.
ReplyDeleteYou clearly have no interest in being taken seriously as an engaged citizen. That's beyond dispute. You also have no understanding of America's founding documents, or the philosophical lineage that gave rise to them. It's clear you've never thought at any length about the nature of freedom.
ReplyDeleteOK, I will reread America's founding documents and again explore Greco-Roman history, Locke, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau even. Here is a quote from one of them: "Government has no other end, but the preservation of property."
ReplyDelete"Prohibition has made nothing but trouble."
ReplyDeleteAl Capone
It should be emphasized that Ben Carson is one of 2 sitting Muslims in Congress. He should be allowed the right of free assembly and speech at the 32nd annual Muslim American Society/Islamic Circle of North America (MAS/ICNA) 2014. ICNA's annual convention is one of the largest gatherings of American Muslims in the United States, drawing as many as 18,000 attendees. ICNA has participated in interfaith dialogue with the U.S. Bishops' Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs. Is this OK with the Constitution according to you? Gossip all you want about it, but thank our constitution which I so poorly understand, that you cannot do a damn thing legally about it without perverting the Bill of Rights.
ReplyDeleteEr, I mean Andre, Ben's wayward kin.
ReplyDeleteIt's probably a malicious smoke screen, but CNA strongly condemned the 2010 Times Square car bombing attempt and immediately called for punishment to the fullest extent of the law for anyone who engages in terrorism. In 2011, ICNA welcomed President Barack Obama's counter-terrorism initiatives.
ReplyDeleteRead more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Circle_of_North_America
The inner city of Indianapolis obviously does not share your values. Would you expect them to? Still, the inner city of Indianapolis, as they say, is what it is. No crime in that, is there?
ReplyDeleteThe fact that it's not a crime does not excuse this. Carson clearly shares their values. If he found them reprehensible, he would have not been there. And, yes, there's a smokescreen vibe to the condemnation of the Times Square bombing. Mokhtar's background is clear to all. And, yes, inner-city Indianapolis needs to come to its senses and quit electing people with values inimical to those of America.
ReplyDeleteThat's real freedom, having to vote for someone you approve of. The inner city demographic is not interested in adhering to your principles. Can you blame them?
ReplyDeleteYes, I can. My principles - which are the principles of conservatism - are universally good, right and true.
ReplyDeleteWell, the blacks, African Americans, whatever they call themselves or what we call them now, just ain't buyin' any of whitie's lines. This event that happened last evening shows the situation in a microcosm: The events began Saturday night when officers saw a man walking down the road and smoking, Delray Beach Police said. The officers smelled marijuana and decided to stop their police vehicle, according to Sgt. Nicole Guerriero. But the man quickly scampered away, going into a house near the corner of Southwest Eighth Avenue and Southwest Third Court. Officers tried to talk to the man, but out from the house came about 20 people and they were forming a human shield.
ReplyDeleteRead more at http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/palm-beach/delray-beach/fl-delray-beach-cop-crowd-20141230-story.html