mainstream Islamic conferences equal to terrorism

http://agrnews.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1817&Itemid=50

Religious conferences equal to terrorism

“As this decision demonstrates, we now are reaching a point in this country where the ‘war on terrorism’ has turned into a war on the constitution,” said New York Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Donna Lieberman. “With the recent disclosures about government spying on political activity, we no longer can trust our government to respect our most cherished traditions, including our right to religious freedom.”

Judge William Skretny dismissed the lawsuit brought on behalf of US citizens who were detained for up to six hours, interrogated, fingerprinted and photographed by border authorities when they returned from a large, mainstream Islamic conference that took place last December in Toronto, Canada. Under the ruling, the government is free to repeat its actions for this year’s conference.

“It is hard to believe that a court would dismiss what the government did to innocent Americans as simply ‘unfortunate and understandably frustrating.’ It is also fundamentally unconstitutional and we are confident that the appeals court will ultimately vindicate their fundamental rights,” continued Lieberman.


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conference.... pity it has come to this.

back in 2002, I believe. He had just attended an inner peace conference in Europe and was returning home when he was detained--just think, a Muslim AND someone for peace! Dangerous combination in the eyes of Bushco.