<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by se94583:
This is the part of the story I find disturbing apart from the "security" people's failure to verify his id. We all know its better err on the safe side, but a government official, especially one who is overcautious in doing his job, should not be running off to file complaints with a defamation league which may have ties to islamic terrorism itself. He should have gone to his "boss" and had the president make a call.</font>
Posts like this are what <B>I</B> find disturbing. se94583 alleges that that Council on Arab-Islamic Relations is "may have ties to islamic terrorism itself". Am I the only one having problems with this post? If se94583 has information that substantiates this allegation then s/he should contact the feds. Post 9-11 the US govt has been pursuing organizations with alleged links to terrorism; if allegations against this particular organization were credible I would assume that they would have been shut down, their assets frozen, etc. etc.
In any case, se94583 fails to address any of the facts of the case. Even if, and I don't grant that, this organization does have such links as se94583 alleges, does that bear on the facts of the case as reported and discussed here?