Dean James AMERICA’S FREEDOM FIGHTERS–

We’ve always contended that political correctness is a very dangerous thing. We see the effects when it comes to ‘profiling’ illegal aliens for example. Criminals on the streets can’t be stopped and frisked because it is a form of discrimination, in liberals eyes.

Muslims are probably the most protected people in America as a result of this political correctness garbage.

Now, it’s taking on a new form of stupid. And it is extremely dangerous.

Five Twin Cities men accused of plotting to go to fight alongside ISIL in Syria are asking a federal judge to drop murder conspiracy charges on grounds that they have “combatant immunity” under both common and international law, Stephen Montemayor at Star Tribune reports.

They say combatants are immune from criminal prosecutions for acts of war, including murder, against military targets.

The five — Hamza Ahmed, brothers Adnan and Mohamed Farah, Abdirahman Daud and Guled Omar — are scheduled to appear in federal court in Minneapolis next week for a hearing on that and other motions in the case, which is set to go to trial May 9.

The men were charged last year with conspiring to leave the United States to fight with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). In October, the government filed a new indictment that added a charge of conspiracy to commit murder, which attorneys for the men say should not apply.

“ISIL has engaged in atrocious acts,” attorneys for the five said in one motion. “But however one might describe it as an entity, it has an organized professional army engaged in traditional military warfare — an army with which the defendants are alleged to have intended to join in ‘combat.’ ”