Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Muslim Public Affairs Council Condemns FBI Anti-Terror Raids

A high-profile Muslim-American organization called the Muslim Public Affairs Council is criticizing FBI raids in Chicago against suspected accomplices of two terrorist organizations, reports The Investigative Project on Terrorism.
ChicagoBreakingNews.com reported on September 24 that the FBI had raided the homes of Thomas Burke and Hatem Abuddayeh, the head of the Arab American Action Network, who the newspaper chose to describe as “anti-war activists.”
The two are suspected of providing material support to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a radical Islamic terrorist group, and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, often referred to as FARC, a Latin American Marxist terrorist group.
The Muslim Public Affairs Council immediately reacted by calling the raids “fishing expeditions” and denouncing them as actions aimed at “squelching healthy and necessary discourse on public policy concerns…”
Read more at World Threats