By Andrew L. Jaffee

Is the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) working to making us safer, or trying to help Islamist terrorists plot atrocities on U.S. soil? President Bush talks of “Islamic Fascists,” then DHS, supposedly under his control, bends over backwards in the most extreme form of political correctness, and gives CAIR, a group with known ties to terrorism, a guided tour of U.S. airport security protocols? Are we at war with “Islamic Fascists,” or trying to appease them? This is outrageous and completely self-destructive. From WorldNetDaily:

The Department of Homeland Security took a Muslim group with known past ties to terror organizations on a VIP tour of security operations at the nation’s busiest airport at the same time British authorities were working to break up a plot to blow up U.S. airlines.

On June 21, a senior DHS official from Washington personally guided Muslim officials from the Council on American-Islamic Relations on a behind-the-scenes tour of Customs screening operations at O’Hare International Airport in response to CAIR complaints that Muslim travelers were being unfairly delayed as they entered the U.S. from abroad.

CAIR is a spin-off of the Islamic Association for Palestine, identified by two former FBI counterterrorism chiefs as a “front group” for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. Several CAIR leaders have been convicted on terror-related charges.