While in San Bernardino children wept for fathers who would never come home after the latest Muslim terror attack, Attorney General Loretta Lynch put on some chic clothes to gab with Muslim Advocates, a Muslim group that had become notorious for its aggressive obstruction of Justice Department investigations into Muslim terrorism.
Muslim Advocates, headed by Farhana Khera, who peppered a smiling Lynch with questions about "anti-Muslim rhetoric", had played a significant role in crippling DOJ investigations of Islamic terrorism by eliminating training materials about Islamic terrorism.
Khera had vocally opposed the sorts of sting operations that had succeeded in capturing a number of ISIS terror plotters before they were able to act. A similar sting might have stopped the San Bernardino massacre. She had opposed the FBI recruiting informants and supported Muslim leaders linked to terrorism. She had even defended terror charities like the Holy Land Foundation.
And she and another Muslim Advocates figure had urged Muslims not to provide information to the FBI. "Any information you provide to the FBI can be used as the basis for further surveillance and investigation of your community," a Muslim Advocates lawyer had said. "So you really don't want to be putting yourself in a situation where you're providing anybody with information about people in your community that the FBI is now gonna follow up and start investigating those people."
But instead of showing respect to the American victims of terrorism, Attorney General Lynch went to a pro-terror group and promised to crack down on the real threat. Anti-Muslim rhetoric.
"Obviously the incidents in Paris were a tragedy," Lynch conceded, but her focus was on Islamophobia.
"Certainly in the wake of Paris, which as a part of Europe has been grappling with anti-Muslim rhetoric for some time now because of smaller incidents, this large one is really their equivalent of 9/11, and certainly as we saw here in the US, an incredibly disturbing rise in anti-Muslim rhetoric," Lynch said.
As if the real issue in Paris was not the mass murder of people, but free speech.
"What is greatly concerning to us is the rise, I remember 9/11 and those were very disturbing days, I heard some disturbing things from people that I never thought I would hear (Video appears to have been edited at this point to remove something Lynch said) the rise of the internet, the ability of people to issue hateful speech of all types from the anonymity of a screen obviously increases that hateful rhetoric," she added.
"Now obviously this is a country that is based on free speech, but when it edges towards violence, when we see the potential for someone lifting that mantle of anti-Muslim rhetoric... when we see that, we will take action."
"My message to the Muslim community is we stand with you in this...
"Since 9/11, we've had over a thousand investigations into acts of anti-Muslim hatred, including rhetoric," Attorney General Loretta Lynch said.
Lynch talked up the Federal investigation into Ahmed's clock hoax and told the pro-terror group, "My message to the Muslim community is we stand with you in this."
Instead of choosing to stand with the families of murdered Americans, Obama's Attorney General stands with advocates for terrorists in support of censoring criticism of Islam.
