Sisayehiticha Dinssa, 35, an unemployed man traveling from Nigeria by way of Amsterdam and headed for Phoenix, was arrested Tuesday at Detroit International Airport after security officials searched him and found him carrying nearly $80,000 in cash and a laptop computer containing information about nuclear materials and cyanide.

Could be something. Could be nothing. In a post-9/11 world, we cannot afford to take chances. But under a CAIR Congress with jihad sympathizers like Michigan’s John Conyers in power and pro-CAIR Muslim congressman-elect Keith Ellison around, the feds could be banned from the very kind of homeland security searches and preemptive measures that uncover such potential threats.

Must-watch: Robert Spencer explains.

Spencer further reports:

Conyers has also masterminded House Resolution 288, which condemns “religious intolerance” but clearly singles out Islam as needing special protection from such criticism. It states that “it should never be official policy of the United States Government to disparage the Quran, Islam, or any religion in any way, shape, or form,” and “calls upon local, State, and Federal authorities to work to prevent bias-motivated crimes and acts against all individuals, including those of the Islamic faith.” The bill was referred to the House subcommittee on the Constitution in June 2005, but Conyers, as chairman of the Judiciary Committee, could rescue it from legislative oblivion.

Such a bill, of course, would do a great deal to stifle honest discussion of the elements of Islam that give rise today to violence and fanaticism. William Gawthrop, former program manager for the Joint Terrorism Task Force of the Defense Department’s Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA), has noted: “There is evidence to support the contention that sources of terrorism in Islam may reside within the strategic themes of Islam,” including “the example of Muhammad, the Quran, the hadiths, Islamic law, the pillars of faith and jihad.” However, “as late as early 2006, the senior service colleges of the Department of Defense had not incorporated into their curriculum a systematic study of Muhammad as a military or political leader. As a consequence, we still do not have an in-depth understanding of the war-fighting doctrine laid down by Muhammad, how it might be applied today by an increasing number of Islamic groups, or how it might be countered.” Conyers’ resolution would effectively end any hope that the Department of Defense or any other agency would begin such study, as vitally needed as it is.

Nothing would please CAIR more, of course, as that agency routinely tars as “bigotry” any attempt to discuss such matters.

Investor’s Business Daily takes aim at John Conyers at the Muslim Caucus:

Conyers is one of the top recipients of donations from the Arab-American Leadership PAC. And not surprisingly, he has a long history of pandering to Arab and Muslim voters.

During the first Gulf War, for instance, Conyers fought FBI outreach efforts in the Arab and Muslim community in Detroit that were designed to gather intelligence on potential cells and protect the home front. Conyers and other Detroit-area Democrats at the time, David Bonior and John Dingell, threatened to hold hearings unless the FBI stopped counterterrorism interviews.

The FBI met with them privately to explain the national security benefits of outreach, but could not allay their concerns. In the end, the FBI backed off. Today, Hamas, Hezbollah and the al-Qaida-tied Muslim Brotherhood are all active in the area.

Expect Conyers and Pelosi to kick open the doors of Congress to Islamists from the Council on American-Islamic Relations and other militant groups. They will have unfettered access, even though many of their leaders have been tied to terrorism (some CAIR officials have landed in the big house).

In 2003, Conyers hosted the first dinner on the Hill that celebrated the end of Ramadan for such Muslim leaders. It’s now a tradition. Incoming Democrat freshman Keith Ellison, a Louis Farrakhan disciple and first Muslim member of Congress, will no doubt expand the invitation list.

Conyers has also sponsored one of the Islamists’ favorite bills in Congress. HR 635, which has 40 co-signers, would create a select committee to investigate President Bush for allegedly manipulating prewar intelligence and torturing al-Qaida detainees. The goal of his bill is to build grounds for impeachment.

Conyers led the defense of Bill Clinton in last decade’s impeachment hearings and is clearly out for blood. So are many of the constituents he serves.

Joel Mowbray and Power Line have doggedly kept watch over Ellison.

Here’s CAIR’s new press release bragging about its election efforts. Pay attention.

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On the GOP side, Debbie Schlussel raises a red flag about terror-friendly Calif. Republican Rep. Darrell Issa–who could become the Republican Policy Committee Chairman tomorrow:

In October 2001, the London Arabic newspaper Al-Hayat reported that Issa had just offered Hezbollah’s leadership a deal to get Hezbollah off the State Department’s Terrorist List and “normalize U.S. relations with” the group. Hezbollah refused the offer. Then, in May 2003, he publicly proposed legitimizing Hezbollah by giving Lebanon $500 million of U.S. taxpayer money to disarm the group and turn it into a political party.

Issa told the Financial Times, “Hezbollah does in fact have a limited scope. You must differentiate . . . from other organizations that might have a global reach.” Yet it murdered 86 and wounded hundreds in a 1994 Buenos Aires attack. It’s also tied to the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing that killed 19 U.S. soldiers in Saudi Arabia.

His view on Palestinian terrorists? At a House International Relations Committee discussion on terrorism just days after 9/11, he drew a distinction between al Qaeda and “Palestinian groups that are resisting Israeli occupation.”

On a Middle East trip that November, he told his hometown paper that he was “particularly impressed with Arafat.” “He is quite a charismatic individual, despite being a very small man and very old. He has a wry sense of humor. He gives you food off his plate if you sit next to him.”

You want this guy developing leadership policy for the GOP? Hello?!

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