Posted on 09/15/2012 1:52:31 PM PDT by blueyon
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Channel 2 Action News investigation found that the State Department is sending millions of dollars to save mosques overseas. This investment has received criticism as the United States makes an effort to slash nearly $4 trillion in government spending.Plenty of outrage following the announcement made Thursday afternoon by a government commission that suggested huge cuts to the budget, including eliminating the interest education for home mortgage. This juxtaposed with the United States investing millions to refurbish mosques as a good-will effort in Muslim countries has upset many taxpayer groups.
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Oh no he’s not a moslelm... /s
What ever happened to the separation of church and state?
That only applies to Christians.
Separation of church and state doesn’t apply if its a mosque?
If this is true...I can’t speak I am so spitting mad.
PING
That only applies to Christians and Jews.
Just takin’ care of his bros.
They’d all d*mned well be World Heritage sites or other notable examples of period architecture, and even if that’s the case, it better be part of a program that also fixes churches, synagogues, ashrams, pagodas, and other religious structures of architectural note without regard to creed.
Bump
interest education for home mortgage = interest deduction for home mortgage?
If you could see a list of all the places that our Federal dollars go, your brain would explode.
Just this afternoon I had to explain to a 24 year old friend what entitlements are, and how they are contributing to our fiscal trouble. He did not know any of that.
Obama the Undocumented-Moslem-Tyrant (eagerly supported
by the US Congress) also supports Christian
crucifixions in Egypt under US taxpayer dollars.
... and rocket attacks on children of all faiths
in Israel.
.. and slavery of women and children in Moslem countries.
Allen West....What you see coming from Obama is called “dhimmitude” to the Islamic world
EDITORIAL: Tax dollars to build mosques
U.S. underwrites fundraising tour for Islamic shrine at Ground Zero
By THE WASHINGTON TIMES-The Washington Times Tuesday, August 10, 2010
The State Department is sending Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf - the mastermind of the Ground Zero Mosque - on a trip through the Middle East to foster “greater understanding” about Islam and Muslim communities in the United States. However, important questions are being raised about whether this is simply a taxpayer-funded fundraising jaunt to underwrite his reviled project, which is moving ahead in Lower Manhattan.
http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/10/tax-dollars-to-build-mosques/
This can’t be obama has, “The Most Transparent Administration in History”. /s
If true, Romney needs to speak out about this! Question is, will he?
Be careful,,it’s not just mosques,,,it’s also churches and ancient religious sites and according to Fact check (ahem), it was started under BusAlthough this chain e-mail first appeared months ago, we have received a large number of inquiries about it recently, as Congress debates cuts in federal spending. It started when the American Family Association sent an e-mail to supporters and posted an item on its website claiming that “Obama gives your tax dollars to rebuild Muslim mosques around the world.”
The message points to a State Department document that lists recipients of the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation Awards in 2010. According to the State Department website, the Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation “provides direct grant support for the preservation of cultural sites, cultural objects, and collections, as well as forms of traditional cultural expression, in eligible countries around the world.” U.S. ambassadors nominate projects to be funded.
But the program isn’t the brainchild of President Barack Obama. The program was created by Congress in late 2000 under President Bill Clinton, and the first grants were announced under President George W. Bush in 2001. The State Department says that, in total, the fund has contributed nearly $26 million to approximately 640 cultural heritage sites in more than 100 countries, and more than half was given before Obama took office.
It’s true that mosques are among the cultural sites that have received grant money under this program. But temples and churches around the world also have received funding, contrary to AFA’s claim that the “secular left” would be upset if “these monies had been spent to repair Christian churches.” When we searched the State Department’s database and lists of 2009 and 2010 projects for “mosque” and “minaret,” we found that 30 mosques or minaret restoration projects had received funding under Bush, and seven such sites had been funded under Obama. Also, 29 projects for churches and cathedrals were funded under Bush and 13 under Obama. Those totals do not represent all Christian or Islamic historical and cultural sites, however — our search for “mosque,” for instance wouldn’t pull up funding for an Islamic monument or conservation of ancient manuscripts, and our search for “church” didn’t pull up restoration of convents or monasteries. Plus — as anyone who has visited the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul or the Mezquita, a mosque and cathedral in Cordoba, Spain, could tell you — there are many ancient sites that were Islamic and Christian places of worship at different points in time. In fact, our searches of “mosque” and “church” both pulled up the $33,455 awarded to the 14th century Mosque of Old Dongola in Sudan, which was a church in the 9th century. And one of the “cathedral” projects in Uganda under Bush was the documentation of “historic buildings,” including “cultural sites, unique architectural designs, cathedrals, Hindu temples, mosques, state buildings and ancestral homes,” according to the State Department database.h.
Department of Justice
Office of Public Affairs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEWednesday, July 18, 2012
Justice Department Files Lawsuit Requiring Rutherford County, Tenn., to Allow Mosque to Open in City of Murfreesboro
Complaint Seeks Temporary Restraining Order and Injunction Compelling County to Process Mosque’s Applications for a Certificate of Occupancy
The Justice Department announced today that it has filed a federal lawsuit against Rutherford County, Tenn., alleging that the county violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA) when, in compliance with a state chancery court ruling, it refused to process or issue a certificate of occupancy to the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro for a recently constructed mosque. The department’s complaint states that a certificate of occupancy is needed immediately so that the Islamic Center can hold worship services at the new facility during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which begins at sundown on July 19.
The lawsuit, filed today in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, alleges that the county’s refusal came as a result of a recent state chancery court order last month, which, acting in response to a motion brought by individuals opposed to the mosque, enjoined the county from processing or issuing a certificate. The chancery court ruled that the county had provided insufficient public notice prior to the hearing at which the county approved the mosque’s site-plan. The chancery court imposed a heightened notice requirement on the mosque, one not imposed on other religious or secular organizations.
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/July/12-crt-883.html
My highly educated, NPR listening, otherwise intelligent sister didn’t know that low income people get “refunds” on their taxes that are more than paid in. And when she was told that the illegals have been getting millions for child credits for children they don’t even have her jaw literally dropped. She seems to think I”m a whacko but when our nephew said this she took it seriously.
Right now she’s on a Morman is bad line of thinking. It’s amazing how successful the brainwashing has been.
The U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) — which is putting millions toward “heritage preservation” projects in the developing world — financed mosque-related projects in all the aforementioned countries.
In Montenegro, for example, the State Department has funded an effort to restore and conserve the Shadrvan (Fountain) of the Old Mosque in Pljevlja. According to the State Department’s website, without needed repairs there would not be a sufficient place for ritual washing before prayer.
Nicole Thompson, a State Department spokeswoman, told The Daily Caller that the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation is a type of diplomatic effort and outreach, what she says Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calls “soft power.”
“It is helping to preserve our cultural heritage. It is not just to preserve religious structures,” Thompson said. “It is not to preserve a religion. It is to help us as global inhabitants preserve cultures.”
In a document provided on Monday to Indiana Republican Sen. Richard G. Lugar, ranking member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, the State Department explained that the practice of funding such projects became acceptable in 2003 when the Justice Department declared that the U.S. Constitution’s Establishment Clause did not preclude federal funds from going to preserve religious structures if they had cultural importance.
The DOJ wrote: “That advice is provided in the following paragraph that appears in every AFCP request for grant proposals… ‘The establishment clause of the U.S. Constitution permits the government to include religious objects and sites within an aid program under certain conditions. For example, an item with a religious connection (including a place of worship) may be the subject of a cultural preservation grant if the item derives its primary significance and is nominated solely on the basis of architectural, artistic, historical or other cultural (not religious) criteria.’”
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has also spent millions reconstructing and financing multiple mosques in Cairo and Cyprus, as well as providing computers for imams in Tajikistan and Mali.
Interestingly, however, according to the Code of Federal Regulations, “USAID funds may not be used for the acquisition, construction, or rehabilitation of structures to the extent that those structures are used for inherently religious activities.”
What bothers me more than the State Department using the guise of cultural heritage as an excuse to fund these projects are some of the countries on the list.
For example we are spending taxpayer money to help renovate or rehabilitate mosques in Yemen. This is the very same country that the State Department has issued a travel advisory on due to terrorist activities in Yemen by Al-Qaeda against American interests.
http://www.aim.org/don-irvine-blog/state-dept-funds-mosque-rehab/
What about separation of church in state? Progressives attacking religion at home and spending millions promoting it over seas.
this fairy has to be stopped in Nov, we cannot afford 4 more years of his radical agenda
Is there no end to this.???
Praying there will be..
DEFEAT THE OBAMANATION
and building mosques on US military instilations in the US and overseas for the Moslem service members like the Fort Hood assasian...
What?????
Anyone who says anything is using hate speech.
Enemies, foreign and domestic.
Every time I inform liberals as to some of the crazy stuff that goes on and that Democrats support they decide I’m either crazy myself, definitely misinformed or possibly stupid borderline retarded. Everything is good; they’re the good guys while conservative people like myself need to get with the program or are simply a problem in the future that will have to be dealt with...
And no taxpayer money should to to any of this. ESPECIALLY mosks.
Alms for the needy?
It’s just Democrats trolling for more votes.
If this can be proved... SCREW THE ELECTION... IMPEACH THIS MF’er NOW!
LLS
Pffft!
Must be your 24 year old friend doesn’t get out much - does it have a job?
SOme weird marriage between Global Democracy/New World Order/Sharia law/fascism.
We have achieved amazing thing in less than three centuries.
Therefore, we must be taken down.
We must take our order from people who sodimize their enemies (non-islamics)and drag their dead bodies through the streets.
It is THE WILL OF ALLAH???
Anyone who disagrees is subject to death.
One of my best friends and I almost came to blows during the 2008 campaign when I told him about osama’s desire to have National Civilian Defense Corps as well armed as the Army. He didn’t believe me and refused to even call up the URL where Osama made that campaign threat.. He’s a PhD College professor. One of my wife’s good friends was over one night and I showed her the video clip, but she refused to believe it, even though she was watching it. I laughed so hard at her that I fell off the couch. She is a highly-respected cardio nurse practitioner. Go figure.
One of my best friends and I almost came to blows during the 2008 campaign when I told him about osama’s desire to have National Civilian Defense Corps as well armed as the Army. He didn’t believe me and refused to even call up the URL where Osama made that campaign threat.. He’s a PhD College professor. One of my wife’s good friends was over one night and I showed her the video clip, but she refused to believe it, even though she was watching it. I laughed so hard at her that I fell off the couch. She is a highly-respected cardio nurse practitioner. Go figure.
Sorry ‘bout that double post. still getting used to the iPad.
Well I agree with her. Mormon is bad. Muslim is bad too. Christian Communist is also bad.
This year it’s a choice between bad and bad. It’s just really bad.
Oh Yes, Fighting Christianities and Judaism on all fronts.
“What ever happened to the separation of church and state?”
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Only for GOP, G/D That jug eared Kenyon punk.
One of my best friends and I almost came to blows during the 2008 campaign -
Obama’s election has split many relationships and has caused serious family fights and separations. It happened in 2008(and is still happening now) within my family and many friends are reporting the same. Never thought something like this could ever happened. At this point I have no room in my life for anyone who supports obama.
It is true and Obama is a foreigner bass turd.
And yet, we have money to spend on fixing up the mosques of the very people who want to kill us? This is INSANE. Anyone who votes for Obama is voting for their own beheading, IMO.
Can someone please explain the architectural or historical significance of "computers for imams"?
Don’t forget the Nobel Prize for world peace!
lolz...
BILLIONS FOR JIHAD! Obamas 2009 Supplemental Appropriations for Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Pandemic Flu was revised and passed by the full committee. It gives billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to countries and entities that support Sharia law and/or harbor, hide and support those who want to destroy the U.S. and our allies. http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2009/05/1...
Read the summary from David Obeys office that was quietly released last week with nary a word from any media.
$3.6 BILLION, matching the request, to expand and improve capabilities of the Afghan security forces
$400 MILLION, as requested, to build the counterinsurgency capabilities of the Pakistani security forces
AFGHANISTAN: $1.52 BILLION, $86 MILLION above the request WEST BANK AND GAZA: $665 MILLION in bilateral economic, humanitarian, and security assistance for the West Bank and Gaza
JORDAN: $250 million,$250 million above the request, including $100 million for economic and $150 million for security assistance
EGYPT: $360 MILLION, $310 million above the request, including $50 million for economic assistance,$50 million for border security, and $260 million for security assistance
PAKISTAN:$1.9 billion,$591 million above the request
IRAQ:$968 MILLION,$336 million above the request
Oversight: $20 million,$13 million above the request, to expand oversight capacity of the State Department, USAID, and the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan to review programs in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq
Lebanon:$74 million
International Food Assistance:$500 MILLION,$200 million above the request, for PL 480 international food assistance to alleviate suffering during the global economic crisis
REFUGEE ASSISTANCE:$343 MILLION,$50 million above the request, including humanitarian assistance for Gaza.
Funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency programs in the West Bank and Gaza is limited to $119 million (Note: Gaza = Hamas)
Disaster Assistance: $200 MILLION to avert famines and provide life-saving assistance during natural disasters and for internally displaced people around the world, including Somalia, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, the Middle East and South Asia
Peacekeeping:$837 MILLION FOR UNITED NATIONS peacekeeping operations, including an expanded mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a new mission in Chad and the Central African Republic
Department of Justice: $17 million, matching the request, for counter-terrorism activities and to provide training and assistance for the Iraqi criminal justice system
OBAMA GIVES YOUR TAX DOLLARS TO REBUILD MUSLIM MOSQUES AROUND THE WORLD! http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/... #
ACCORDING TO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WILL GIVE AWAY NEARLY $6 MILLION OF AMERICAN TAX DOLLARS TO RESTORE 63 HISTORIC AND CULTURAL SITES, INCLUDING ISLAMIC MOSQUES AND MINARETS, IN 55 NATIONS. See the State Department document here. http://exchanges.state.gov/media/pdfs/office-...
And THAT’S just the tip of the iceberg.
THIS will blow your mind!! http://gbk.eads.usaidallnet.gov/ They should have 2010 up, but they don’t. That’s where you’ll find Obama’s largesse towards Muslim countries really go off the charts.
http://www.foreignassistance.gov/DataView.aspx charts: http://gbk.eads.usaidallnet.gov/data/fast-facts.html .
My wife is an obamunist, but I think that’s mostly in reaction to my bombastic condemning Osama and all the ‘rats. My sisters are dependable, but my brother is still in awe of Biden’s intellect. Most of the guys from the Legion are on our side as are most of the guys at an Irish saloon I hang at.
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