When the terrorists attack again - as Homeland Security has repeatedly
warned us they will - how many survivors will be consoled because the
Supreme Court and the State Department looked out for the "rights" of
terrorists before the rights of their dead loved ones?
Will the dead be wrapped in a copy of the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling
granting foreign detainees, whose mission is to destroy our Constitution,
our country and way of life, the right to appeal to U.S. civilian courts to
challenge their detention, a right that should be reserved only for American
citizens? Perhaps inside the caskets can go a statement by the State
Department refusing to close Islamic schools underwritten by the government
of Saudi Arabia, which teach visceral hatred of Jews, Christians and all
things Western.
To the second issue first. Despite the recommendation from a federal panel
that the Islamic Saudi Academy in Alexandria, Va., be closed for promoting
hate, the State Department won't go along. State has jurisdiction because as
part of the Saudi government, the school is subject to the Foreign Missions
Act. A local Democratic politician running for Congress won't support the
closing of the school, either. He is Fairfax County Board of Supervisors
Chairman Gerry Connolly, who has reportedly called critics of the academy
"bigots." Perhaps his position is related to a $2.2 million check he
accepted from the Saudi Embassy to extend its lease.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom looked into reports
that the school was teaching hate. The school promised to clean up the
textbooks. The commission looked again to see if the school had done so and
concluded it had not. In addition to vilifying Jews, children are taught it
is permissible for a Muslim to kill a non-Muslim and those who convert from
Islam. We are allowing a training ground for future terrorists on American
soil.