Thanks to the reporting of Audrey Hudson and Katherine Kersten, and thanks to yesterday’s floor vote in the House, America is getting a glimpse into what national security would look like if Democrats had their say. Let’s first look at the impact the House vote would have on our national security. Here’s what John Murtha said in his interview on National Public Radio:

“They won’t be able to deploy troops unless they extend troops overseas. And if we limit the extension, then it’ll be very difficult for them to continue this surge, which the American people are against and the Iraqis don’t want,” Murtha said yesterday on National Public Radio.

If we don’t defeat al Qaeda in Iraq and the Iranian-funded Shi’ite insurgents, Iraq will become the mixing ground of the worst influences in the Middle East: Iran’s mullahs and al Qa’ida. By voting to establish deadlines for our troop deployment, Nancy Pelosi, John Murtha & Company are telling Iran and al Qa’ida when they can take control of Iraq.

Of course, John Murtha doesn’t believe that. He believes that al Qa’ida will disappear once we leave:

JACK MURTHA (D), PENNSYLVANIA REPRESENTATIVE: People tend to say, well, if we leave there’s going to be chaos. I don’t believe that. Seventy-eight percent of the Iraqis say that’s not going to happen, 78 percent of the Iraqis say it’ll be…we’re the ones that are causing this and al Qaeda’s going to be…al Qaeda’s going to disappear.

Is Murtha the type of person we want offering military advice to future presidents? I think that thought should scare every voter.

In addition to Pelosi, Murtha and Company not taking the war against the jihadists seriously, we also know that Nancy Pelosi is a passionate advocate of ending racial and religious profiling:

Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is co-sponsoring the “End Racial Profiling Act”. The proposed bill is said to have been prompted by the recent removal of six Muslim imams, who are reported to have acted in a decidedly provocative manner, from a US Airways’ flight.

Pelosi said: “Since September 11th, many Muslim Americans have been subjected to searches at airports and other locations based upon their religion and national origin, without any credible information linking individuals to criminal conduct. Racial and religious profiling is fundamentally un-American and we must make it illegal.”

The other co-sponsor of the bill is Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) who is also preparing documents to lead to Articles of Impeachment against President Bush. Pelosi and Conyers are calling for the end of all racial profiling, additional severe limits placed on the Patriot Act and the implementation of broad-based US citizenship for illegal immigrants.

If this legislation passes, the Democrats will be making the TSA’s job more difficult. Passengers will assume a greater risk when flying commercial airplanes as a result of this legislation. The other thing to note about this is that Democrats, led by CAIR-Michigan’s Man of the Year John Conyers and Speaker Pelosi, will be well on their way to systematically dismantling airport security if this bill becomes law.

Speaking of airport security, Katherine Kersten’s Wall Street Journal op-ed documents how radical Islamists like CAIR are trying intimidation to prevent airline passengers from speaking up when they see suspicious behavior:

By piggy-backing on our civil rights laws, Islamist activists aim to equate airport security with racial bigotry and to move slowly toward a two-tier legal system. Intimidation is a crucial tool. The “flying imams” lawsuit ups the ante by indicating that passengers who alerted airport authorities will be included as defendants.

That’s what the imams’ lawsuit is about. The good news is that another Muslim organization, along with the law firm of Faegre & Benson, have stepped up to criticize the lawsuit:

Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, a Phoenix-area physician and director of American Islamic Forum for Democracy, a group founded in 2003 to promote moderate Muslim ideas through its Web site (www.aifdemocracy.org), told The Washington Times his group will raise money for legal fees for passengers if they are sued by the imams. “It’s so important that America know there are Muslims who understand who the victims are in air travel,” said Dr. Jasser. “But I hope it doesn’t get to that point because the backlash will be even greater when Americans see Islamists trying to punish innocent passengers reporting fears.”
The lawsuit specifically cites two passengers who stared at the men as they prayed, then made a cell phone call that the imams say went to U.S. Airways to complain about the prayer.
Gerry Nolting, whose Minnesota law firm Faegre & Benson LLP is offering to represent passengers for free, says the judicial system is being “used for intimidation purposes” and that it is “just flat wrong and needs to be strongly, strongly discouraged. As a matter of public policy, the FAA [Federal Aviation Administration] presently tells traveling passengers to report suspicious behavior as part of its homeland security program,” Mr. Nolting said. “This has nothing to do with race or ethnicity, but trying to intimidate and discourage reporting of suspicious behavior and [also discourage] the promotion of safe travel.”

This lawsuit was predictable. From the beginning, the speculation was that the imam event was staged. That speculation was only reinforced when John Conyers had a resolution ready the day after the incident:

CAIR wants congressional hearings to investigate other incidents of “flying while Muslim.” Incoming Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, (D-MI), has already drafted a resolution, borrowing from CAIR rhetoric, that gives Muslims special civil-rights protections.

Based on their vote on funding the Iraq War, their willingness to be CAIR’s advocates, it isn’t unreasonable to think that Democrats would weaken homeland security through their anti-profiling legislation and that they’d weaken our national security by not defeating the jihadists.

If, after peering over that cliff, you think that the Democrats’ agenda for national and homeland security are serious-minded and rational, you’d best rethink things. The Democrats’ plans to secure our air travel and secure things in the Middle East aren’t serious. They’re plain scary.

Technorati Tags: CAIR, Homeland Security, National Security, Flying Imams, Nancy Pelosi, John Murtha, John Conyers, al Qaeda, Patriot Act, American Islamic Forum for Democracy, Gerry Nolting, Katherine Kersten, Racial Profiling

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