Justice Dept. Sponsors ISNA

LGF on the upcoming convention of the Islamic Society of North America in Chicago this weekend. You have to wade through PDFs posted on their program this year:

Political correctness and self-imposed blindness running amok at the Justice Department: U.S. sponsors Islamic convention.

The Justice Department is co-sponsoring a convention held by the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) — an unindicted co-conspirator in an ongoing federal terrorist funding case — a move that is raising concerns among the Justice’s rank and file.

Justice lawyers have objected to the affiliation with ISNA, fearing it will undermine the case against the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development in Dallas.

“There is outrage among lawyers that the Department of Justice is funding a group named as a co-conspirator in a terrorist financing case,” said a Justice lawyer who spoke to The Washington Times on the condition of anonymity.

According to an e-mail from Susana Lorenzo-Giguere, acting deputy chief of the Voting Rights Division, the sponsorship will involve sending government lawyers to man a booth for the Labor Day weekend event in Illinois.

Is anyone awake in the government?

According to The American Thinker, apparently sponsorship means setting up a booth there, but still, Justice should withdraw.

Last year their keynote speaker was Khatami, the former president of Iran, the terror state. This year their speaker is an American and congressman, Keith Ellison. Somehow that's not a comfort to me. And Rep. Ellison most recently made inflammatory remarks, noted here. What will he have to say this weekend?