Muslim Supremacists to Trump: Government study of 'radical Islam' is unconstitutional

In light of the escalating jihad in the U.S. and around the world, Hamas-linked CAIR’s claim that studying the motivating ideology behind that jihad is unconstitutional demonstrates the truth yet again of what I have often pointed out: that CAIR opposes any and every counter-terror measure ever proposed or implemented, in an obvious attempt to clear away all obstacles before the advancing jihad.

The First Amendment is not a license to commit treason or sedition. And we cannot defeat an enemy we do not understand. Trump’s call for a commission to study the jihadis’ ideology is not in the least an infringement of the First Amendment rights of Muslims in America, who we are supposed to believe all oppose and reject jihad terror anyway.

Hamas-linked CAIR may be deeply afraid that Trump’s commission on “radical Islam” might find that jihad warfare against unbelievers is in Islam actually quite mainstream.

“CAIR To Donald Trump: The Constitution Says Government Can’t Study or Criticize Radical Islam,” by Neil Munro, Breitbart, August 16, 2016 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

An Islamic group tied closely to jihadi terror groups is complaining that Donald Trump will violate the constitution by helping Americans better understand the nature of radical, jihad-promoting Islam.

“One of my first acts as President will be to establish a Commission on Radical Islam – which will include reformist voices in the Muslim community,” Trump declared in a reformist foreign policy speech on Monday.

“The goal of the commission will be to identify and explain to the American public the core convictions and beliefs of Radical Islam, to identify the warning signs of radicalization, and to expose the networks in our society that support radicalization … [and] we will pursue aggressive criminal or immigration charges against anyone who lends material support to terrorism,” he said.

That promise of legal charges is a direct threat to the jihad-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations, which has many material links to domestic and foreign groups that support Islamic war. CAIR has been declared a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates and was named by federal prosecutors as an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas-funding operation.

CAIR responded to Trump’s speech by suggesting that rhetorical and religious support (although not actions) for Islamic jihad terrorism is a constitutional right, both for Americans and for would-be immigrants who wish to introduce jihad and other Islamic ideas into the United States.

Trump’s proposal for a ‘commission’ that would identify for Americans the tenets of ‘radical Islam’ crosses the line into government interference in religious beliefs. Will a Trump administration entangle itself in interpretation of [Islamic] religious principles? Who will Trump appoint to decide what constitutes ‘radical Islam’? His current stable of Islamophobic [sic] advisers indicates that this commission would be packed with anti-Muslim bigots.

This government promotion of a state version of a particular religion would violate the First Amendment and put America on a path to a society in which those in power get to choose which beliefs are ‘correct’ and which are ‘incorrect.’

CAIR is so closely entwined with Islamists and with jihadis that court documents and news reports show that at least five of its people — either board members, employees or former employees — have been jailed or repatriated for various financial and terror-related offenses….