The Other Side of the ACLU's RIS Lawsuit

Last month in a post I discussed the ACLU's suit on behalf of several Muslim-Americans against the Department of Homeland Security over the way they were detained and interrogated upon their return from a Muslim conference in Canada. The annual event in Canada is known as the "Reviving Islamic Spirit" conference. On Friday, the National Ledger published an op-ed piece making the case on behalf of DHS. Sherrie Gossett of Accuracy in Media argues that the history of past RIS conferences gave the government a strong basis for their questioning of those who had attended.