When the terrorists attack again, how many survivors will be consoled because the Supreme Court and the State Department looked out for the “rights” of terrorists?
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? Perhaps inside the caskets can go a statement by the State Department refusing to close Islamic schools underwritten by the government of Saudi Arabia that teach hatred of Jews, Christians and all things Western.
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.
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.
The next attack probably won?t come by airplane. It will come in a shopping mall, or a school, or on Wall Street, or possibly all three. Perhaps someone who manages to extricate himself from Guantanamo, thanks to a liberal judge, will lead the attack. What will the Supreme Court and State Department say to cleanse the blood from their hands?
Cal Thomas is America?s most widely syndicated op-ed columnist and author of 11 books.
