Two days ago in Rockford, north of Peoria, Talib Abu Salam Ibn Shareef was arrested by FBI agents for allegedly plotting to explode grenades at a mall there, as I blogged about in the below post. This afternoon, Shareef was arraigned in Chicago federal courtroom.
From the CAIR Chicago web site:
The Springfield Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), with the endorsement of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) – Illinois is holding a "Town Hall" Meeting in Peoria, Illinois, for the IL Muslim Community on Saturday, December 9, 2006.
The Springfield Division of the FBI is hosting this meeting to provide a forum for the frank exchange of ideas and concerns so that the FBI may better serve the Muslim communities in Central and Southern Illinois. The FBI will provide presentations about its current counterterrorism efforts, its civil rights responsibilities, and its current recruiting initiatives and hiring needs.
Springfield is where Sen. Richard Durbin lives.
From FrontPage Magazine in 2003:
Even Senator Richard Durbin, who has made common cause with some of America’s Wahhabi-backed groups, came down hard on CAIR. In his final comments he conceded that CAIR is "unusual in its extreme rhetoric and its associations with groups that are suspect," and requested that the committee seek the testimony of mainstream Muslim groups in its place in the future.
Related post: CAIR-Chicago recommended that DePaul fire Klocek
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