CAIR in Chicago II

CAIR is in the news again in Chicago. Earlier post here. Sun Times column:

A group with proven links to terrorism is demanding ''immediate'' U.S. citizenship for Arab men whose FBI background checks have not been completed. The Council on American-Islamic Relations and other groups have sued in U.S. District Court in Chicago on behalf of nine Arabs and one Pakistani. Plaintiffs admit that ''background checks performed by the FBI are not yet completed,'' but complain that naturalization takes ''significantly longer'' for Muslim men.

Apparently it has something to do with common sense problems, like multiple names commonly being used:

Daunting obstacles delay checks requiring special FBI attention, including translations from non-Roman alphabets, multiple aliases (each must be checked) in countries where using several names is common, reliability of governments supplying information and profusion of identical names (three plaintiffs are named Mohamed). The gravity of the risks is illustrated by renewal of Mohammed Atta's visa after 9/11.

And if we had done a better job vetting CAIR itself, perhaps lives would have been saved. The author quotes the chief Nuremberg (WWII war crimes) prosecutor warning that "the Bill of Rights should not be converted into a suicide pact."