CNN's God's Warriors mentioned this foundation which is alleged to be a terrorist support group, based in Oregon, and interviewed Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, who grew up in a "mystic" Jewish family in Ashland (a very New Age sort of place), became first a Muslim (which his parents thought was really cool), then joined what Gartenstein-Ross now alleges was a terrorist support group. No word if Mom and Dad still thought that this was cool. I hope that they would have gotten a little peeved if Daveed had showed up at the door wearing a swastika armband, but you can never tell what aging hippies are going to think is a sign of a child's intellectual independence.
Anyway, Zombietime (which is fast becoming one of my favorite deranged leftist tracking sites), has a very, very detailed web page about the background to the suit, and the results of watching the hearing before the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals here.
She has also has some reporting about the behavior of reporters after the hearing--swarming around the attorney representing Al-Haramain, while ignoring lawyers representing the U.S. government and AT&T (who has gotten dragged into this because they are alleged to have exposed their fascist sympathies by trying to help the government catch terrorists).
One of these days, if the left isn't careful, they are going to find out that this isn't a game--that al-Qaeda and friends aren't like-minded progressives because they have the same enemies. When Robert Ferrigno's novel Prayers for the Assassin describes the Golden Gate Bridge lined with the heads of homosexuals, that's not a wild leap of imagination, but the likely consequence of the left's obsession with making sure that America loses the war on terrorism.
And yes, as much as the left wants to believe that it is possible to make sure we lose the war on terrorism without al-Qaeda winning, this fight is a zero-sum game.
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