I'd like to thank Classic for answering our questions, and hope that the Senate will take a
deeper look at this bill than the House did- It was disappointing that a vote on a national security issue was a simple party vote where few House members discussed the issue, and simply pushed it aside. I hope the Senate doesn't do the same thing.
I have a number of concerns over this bill.
+ The evidence provided was not 'credible'. The site mentioned- the Clarion Project is a well a know anti-Muslim group as outlined by the Southern Poverty Law Centre who said...
The document was a book from 1991; at the same time groups like the IRA, FARC and others were also publishing 'terrorist literature'. Should we outlaw those groups as well? We can't make such a broad sweep based on a single book- from a Federal trial that fell apart in 2007, and was then re-tried in rather suspect circumstances. I'm happy to into the court case in more depth, but it really shouldn't be held up as anything good.
+ Citing the Government of Syria, Bahrain and Russia as hallmarks of what we should follow in the Middle east is well not very convincing for me considering well the obvious faults with those governments.
I've yet to see any evidence that the Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist group. It's an awful group, that has curtailed civil liberties and has been a force opposed to Progress. I've yet to see any evidence- aside from a 1991 book that they're a terrorist
