Exclusive: Tillerson declines to host Ramadan event at State Department - sources

Reuters ^ | May 26, 2017 | Yeganeh Torbati

[Ciaphas Cain]

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has declined a request to host an event to mark Islam's holy month of Ramadan, two U.S. officials said, apparently breaking with a bipartisan tradition in place with few exceptions for nearly 20 years.

Since 1999, Republican and Democratic secretaries of state have nearly always hosted either an iftar dinner to break the day's fast during Ramadan or a reception marking the Eid al-Fitr holiday at the end of the month, at the State Department.

Tillerson turned down a request from the State Department's Office of Religion and Global Affairs to host an Eid al-Fitr reception as part of Ramadan celebrations, said two U.S. officials who declined to be identified because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

[Ciaphas Cain]

Good.

[Dustoff45]

Excellent!!

[Secret Agent Man]

THey are just po’d that this means no free State Dept-paid for free booze.

And yeah, it’s State Dept, and that is exactly what it means.

[Walrus]

Message: the USA is no longer kissing Muslim donkey.

Attaboy, Rex!

[rrrod]

Winning

[Psalm 73]

“Rex Tillerson has declined...to host an event to mark Islam’s holy month of Ramadan - liberal’s heads explode. Film at 11.”

[Ann Archy]

YEAH!! I PRAY he doesn’t CAVE!!! STAND TALL, REX!

[Skywise]

Separation of church and state!

[Bodleian_Girl]

Do they also host Easter dinners or Passover meals?

[TBP]

Oooh, this is going to make them mad! Why, they might try to blow up a concert or something!

[A_Former_Democrat]

Well, gee, OMuslim usually forgot about Easter wishes and his butt brothers at Google never fail to recognize it

So what’s the big deal? In today’s world, if it ain’t your “religion” (i.e. cult of Islam) then ignore it

Way to go, T-Rex

[Sarah Barracuda]

Good!!! Enough bending over and kissing the a@@es of Muslims who end up blowing people up. If Democrats love Muslims so much they can go give them a big hug as they carry their explosive belt

[Lurkinanloomin]

Good, we have had far too much bowing and scraping to the religion of murder and mayhem.

[left that other site]

God Bless Him for That!

[Liz]

Secy Hillary turned the State Dept into a Muslim free-for-all......Hillary and Huma's mother make a joint personal appearance at a college.

Sap-happy Hillary and Huma's Muslim mother signing autographs (center).
The other smirking Muslims are Huma's sisters, I believe. ///

And don't forget Huma's cousins.

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This'll give you nightmares, people.....counting up the endless line of Huma's cousins w/ their greedy Muslim hands in the State Dept cookie jar.

UNDER HOUSE ARREST---This smirking creep is Huma's first cousin AKA a serial swindler
He subsidized businesses w/ our tax dollars looted from Hillary's State Dept. Six million dollars is missing.

EXCERPT--“Thanks for getting in touch. Would love to arrange a meeting,” Huma Abedin replied in a June 23, 2009, email to her cousin Omar Amanat and Shamil Idriss, who heads New York-based Soliya Inc.

In May 2010, then-Secy Clinton helped Soliya get access to U.N. funding by making the U.S. a participant in a U.N. high-tech media initiative called the Alliance of Civilizations. Then in October 2010, the State Department directly awarded Soliya $1.25 million for a media technology project. “Huma helped Omar make KIT appear more valuable because of its association with the Alliance of Civilizations, which was approved by Hillary and funded in part by U.S. grants (tax dollars),” said an attorney familiar with the case.

“This helped Omar raise money for KIT, which he and his brother misappropriated for other purposes. Approximately $6 million has vanished.”

Amanat took KIT Digital public in August 2009. At the time, Amanat, known as a “serial swindler,” was in personal bankruptcy and being sued by other investors. Despite his reputation, he still managed to gain special access to US government tax dollars thanks to his ties to his well-positioned cousin and the Clinton Foundation.

THE MONEY LAUNDRY Records show that Amanat and several other family members and related charities have together donated as much as $1.2 million to the Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative, as well as the Clinton Health Access Initiative. Amanat, who personally contributed as much as $25,000 to the Clinton Foundation, was appointed to the Council on Foreign Relations during the time that Hillary Clinton was serving as secretary of state.

While the FBI has apparently closed its espionage investigation into Clinton’s unsecured private email server (the House has reopened it), its public corruption investigation into the Clinton Foundation remains open.

It’s not clear if this still-active probe overlaps with the Amanat fraud investigation. However, investigators reportedly continue to look into alleged “pay-for-play” schemes involving the Clinton State Department and the Clinton Foundation and its wealthy donors, as well as entities that paid the Clintons millions of dollars in speaking fees.

Judicial Watch and other government watchdog groups have charged that the Clinton Foundation was a pay-for-play operation that rewarded its benefactors with State Department favors.....and cash.

[redcatcherb412]

said two U.S. officials who declined to be identified because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

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hmmmmm yet these LEAKERS did speak publicly anonymously.
seems to be an obama holdover trend

[ptsal]

Bingo good news

[Dogbert41]

We are a Judeo-Christian Country. NOT A MUSLIM country.

[GnuThere]

And fire the staff who requested it; they must think they work for another country. Maybe they do.

[Repeal 16-17]

Liberals claim there is a Constitutionally required “separation of church and state”, so they should agree with the Secretary of State. Why do I think that they won’t?