A Troubling Influence [about Grover Norquist]

Front Page Magazine ^ | 12/9/03 | Frank J Gaffney Jr., with introduction by David Horowitz

[Akula]

I have known Grover Norquist for almost twenty years as a political ally. Long before I myself was cognizant of the Communist threat – indeed when I was part of one of those Fifth Column networks – Grover Norquist was mobilizing his countrymen to combat it. In the early 1980s, Grover was in the forefront of conservative efforts to get the Reagan Administration to support the liberation struggles of anti-Communists in Central America, Africa and Afghanistan.

It is with a heavy heart therefore, that I am posting this article, which is the most complete documentation extant of Grover Norquist’s activities in behalf of the Islamist Fifth Column. I have confronted Grover about these issues and have talked to others who have done likewise. But it has been left to Frank Gaffney and a few others, including Daniel Pipes and Steven Emerson, to make the case and to suffer the inevitable recriminations that have followed earlier disclosures of some aspects of this story.

[Akula]

Enjoy...

[GulliverSwift]

Do I hear the sound of flamethrowers being fired up?

[veronica]

David is the greatest. Yes I know him from being part of The Wednesday Morning Club. He's a true American HERO!

[truthandlife]

I commend Horowitz for exposing Norquist as fraud. Very commendable and I hope conservatives withdraw their support of him.

[Captain Kirk]

I wonder if David Horowitz will criticize his pre-millenial allies like Hal Lindsay who do not seem bothered by the prospect that the entire Jewish population (sans 144,000 Jewish Billy Graham's) will be wiped out. Oh....I forgot, Horowitz, never criticizes pro-war people.

[JohnGalt]

Gaffney is reduced to writing hit pieces? Pretty weak, but I guess when you pimp for Boeing, that is whats required of you.

[AAABEST]

Already posted.

[GulliverSwift]

Horowitz is also hypocritical to criticize someone else's ideological purity since he is squishy on the social issues.

[Guillermo]

Figures you show up here bashing Gaffney.

Isn't is prayer time?

[Guillermo]

I don't hink he's critizing his "ideological purity" as much as he is outlining facts.

Norquist is, at best, an apologist for militant Islam.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Being "squishy" on the social issues is a far cry from actively supporting sworn enemies of the United States.

[JohnGalt]

"Neocons" are marked, it has been said, with their inability to tell a joke.

On two threads now, you have intimated that you believe I am a Muslim, a religion I believe to be backward, false, and ill-equipped to deal with modernity. I don't even believe we should let anymore Arab males into the country, unlike the current regime.

However, my handle, JohnGalt, is the character in a book written by a Jews émigré. Most intelligent folks would then consider the insinuation that I am a Muslim rather odd.

Thus most are concluding at this moment that you are an ignoramus.

(Let alone, on my profile page, I note the year I was baptized a Christian.)

State Worshipping folks like yourself, who hide behind teenage girls, may think you are being clever but you are really just another of the sheep.

[VRW Conspirator]

Grover Norquist? Un-bumpin-believable! Huh?

[marty60]

It's sad how conservatives, in their(our)zeal to make the Repubs an inclusive Party, manages to be hoodwinked by the Anti-american lefties(which includs Islamist). Nothing is more communistic/totalitarian than the Islamist.

Luckily, the Bush Administration wasn't paying close attention to them. He took the war to them. Instead of the usual suspects waiting for an attack, hoping for it's success.

[STD]

I can't understand your convoluted logic here Captain? Perhaps we need a vulcan translator?

What does pre-mil. have to do with Norquist in bed with allah?

[William McKinley]

Ping to both of you.

[aynrandfreak]

To focus on Arabs as opposed to Muslims is racist. The problem is their philosophy, not their biology. There are many Arab Christians here that came here as victims of persecution that would turn in a terrorist before Farrakhan would.

There also seems to be such a tone of bitterness in your posts. Part of Rand's philsophy is about the benevolent sense of life. What do you like?

[William McKinley]

Don't miss this article (despite its length).

Ironically, pro-Islamist groups had been scheduled to meet with President Bush on the morning of September 11 to hear what he planned to do to deliver on his secret evidence campaign pledge.27 But that day, the executive mansion complex was shut down, for fear that a fourth hijacked aircraft was headed its way. I watched bemused as Grover Norquist and the White House official responsible for Muslim outreach, Suhail Khan, escorted the displaced Islamists into the conference room we share. (Al-Arian had arranged to participate in the presidential meeting via phone. According to his website, his teaching schedule at the University of South Florida would not allow him to be there in person.)28

How curious.

[JohnGalt]

Rand was perfectly at home with a bucketful of dead babies so I consider her contention that she had some Western concept of a "benevolent sense of life," utter BS.

And her support for the violation of property rights abroad in pursuit of ideological ends also exposed that as a pure lie.

If it pleases, I amend: "refuse to let unemployed Arab Muslim males into the country."

[William McKinley]

In a scathing report of the proceedings,80 National Review’s Byron York described how Norquist joined actor Alec Baldwin and Democratic uber-agitator Ralph Neas.81 According to York, when Neas indulged in a pointed, and factually incorrect, attack on the PATRIOT Act – charging that it authorizes activities not subject to constitutionally necessary judicial oversight – Norquist associated himself completely by saying simply, “Ditto.” The immoderate moderator, Alec Baldwin, reportedly then turned to the crowd and enthused, “Can’t you feel the love?”

This is very sad, and very bad.