Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said those who criticize the appointment of Democratic Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN) to the Intelligence Committee because he is a Muslim are “un-American.” Schiff, who is the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said he has been “deeply disturbed” by the reaction by some to Carson’s appointment last week.
“I am deeply disturbed that since his appointment to the committee, Congressman Carson has been subject to vicious, anti-Muslim attacks online and in social media, questioning his loyalty to our country solely because of his faith.”
Schiff added, “These un-American and unfounded smears have no place in our national discourse and are contemptible.” As The Hill reports, Carson is “the first-ever Muslim to sit on the panel, which is privy to many of the nation’s most closely guarded secrets.”And, he takes money from organization which was birthed out of Hamas, and was named as a unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism-funding trial.
Here’s a great reason to question Rep. Carson – taking money from CAIR and ISNA, and a history of racially charged statements:
According to the Daily Caller, Carson, the first Muslim to get a seat on the committee, spoke to the 37th Annual Islamic Circle of North America-Muslim American Society Convention in Hartford, Conn., declaring the need to incorporate some Islam-based practices into the U.S. system.
“America will never tap into educational innovation and ingenuity without looking at the model that we have in our madrassas, in our schools, where innovation is encouraged, where the foundation is the Quran.”
Interestingly, Carson issued a news release later that day disavowing his own words, the Daily Caller reported. No religion should be the basis for education in the U.S., Carson said.
Carson also made a racially charged statements about the tea party members of Congress suggesting, “Some of these folks in Congress right now would love to see [blacks] as second class citizens. Some of them in Congress right now with this tea party movement would love to see you and me…hanging on a tree.”
According to campaign filing records on OpenSecrets.org, Carson received $6,000 from the Counsel on American-Islamic Relations between the 2008 and 2014 election cycles.
Although not indicted, CAIR was named as a co-conspirator in a terrorism funding case involving a group called the Holy Land Foundation, which was found guilty in federal court of providing material support to Hamas.AND THEN THERE'S THIS:
Rep. André Carson has attracted suspicion for his public statements, including a 2012 Islamic Circle of North America convention where he said America’s schools should be modelled after Qur’anic madrassas.
Moments later he warned undercover law enforcement skulking around the event looking for ‘secret meetings’ that ‘Allah will not allow you to stop us.’