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Who's with President Bush?
townhall ^ | February 18, 2003 | Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.

Posted on 02/17/2003 9:27:11 PM PST by TLBSHOW

Who's with President Bush?

President Bush has characterized the choice to be made in this war on terror: "Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists." The stark clarity of this binary decision has served the United States well in marshaling a large number of nations in the fight against al Qaeda and a smaller, but still ample, number for the next phase of this war: the liberation of Iraq.

Regrettably, in the months since September 11, 2001, people who have made no secret of their sympathy for terrorists, provided them financial support, excused their murderous attacks and/or sought to impede the prosecution of the war against them have repeatedly been put in the company of the President. In other words, individuals and organizations who appear to be "with the terrorists" have time and again been allowed to be with the President in the White House and elsewhere.

For example: o On September 20, 2001 -- just nine days after the deadly attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon -- Shaykh Hamza Yusuf was the Muslim representative in a small ecumenical gathering held in the Oval Office.

At the same time, FBI agents were trying to interview him at his house in California since he had declared two days before the attack: "This country is facing a terrible fate....This country stands condemned. It stands condemned like Europe stood condemned because of what it did -- and lest people forget that Europe suffered two world wars after conquering the Muslim lands." His wife told the incredulous agents Yusuf wasn't home, he was with the President. o Six days later, President Bush met in the Roosevelt Room with a Muslim imam by the name of Muzammil H. Siddiqi. Siddiqi is a long-time board member of several organizations in the United States funded by, and closely tied to, Saudi Arabia's radical state religion known as Wahhabism. Two of these groups, including one where Siddiqi still sits on the board, were raided in March 2002 by Federal authorities in pursuit of terrorist financing.

This presidential meeting was all the more puzzling since the imam had shown his true colors by claiming, at a rally the previous October: "America has to learn...If you remain on the side of injustice, the wrath of God will come.

Please, all Americans. Do you remember that? Allah is watching everyone. God is watching everyone. If you continue doing injustice, and tolerate injustice, the wrath of God will come." o On September 17, 2001, President Bush paid a visit to the mosque in Washington. There he was photographed flanked by Nihad Awad, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

CAIR has long been an admirer and public defender of terrorist organizations whose attacks against even innocent women and children it sees as legitimate acts of "liberation." Awad has personally declared, "I am a supporter of the Hamas movement." o Also in the picture with President Bush at the mosque was Khaled Saffuri, currently chairman of an organization called the Islamic Institute, which he co-founded with conservative activist Grover Norquist.

Saffuri previously served as the development director of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, a supporter of the Palestine Liberation Organization when it made no bones about using terrorism for political purposes. He went on to become deputy director of the radical American Muslim Council (AMC), under then-director Abduraman Alamoudi -- a publicly declared supporter of Hamas and Hezbollah, whose statements of solidarity with these groups prompted the Bush 2000 campaign to return his contributions. Under Saffuri's leadership, the Islamic Institute has attacked the Bush Administration's investigations of radical Muslim groups and closures of organizations suspected of funding terrorists.

The Institute has been funded by groups raided in the above-mentioned terrorist financing investigations. It lobbied intensively against portions of the USA Patriot Act. And Saffuri has personally denounced the President's listing of the Holy Land Foundation as a charity that supported terrorist organizations. He has acknowledged sponsoring the children of suicide bombers through the Foundation, even after its closure by the government.

In addition to the President, a number of his senior subordinates -- including Cabinet officers -- have met, in some cases more than once, with members of the aforementioned and other organizations with troubling attitudes towards jihadist terrorists. A particularly bizarre instance was FBI Director Robert Mueller’s keynote address last year to the American Muslim Council.

The AMC has a long record of activities hostile to the Bush Administration’s prosecution of the war on terror. It has even urged Muslims not to cooperate with the FBI! Nonetheless, according to a press release dated last Thursday, Mr. Mueller has invited the AMC’s chairman, Dr. Yahya Mossa Basha, to attend an upcoming meeting with him and “leaders of major Muslim and Arab-American organizations.”

It is very much in the President's interest -- and the Nation's -- that moderate, law-abiding, peace-loving and patriotic American Muslims be embraced and empowered by the Bush Administration and all those who support it in waging a war on terror, not on Islam.

To do so, however, the Administration must not allow those who are “with” its enemies in that struggle to continue being with the President and his team.


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To: All
from a link off of

http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:jUANaZqKXBwC:www.islamicsupremecouncil.org/CMS/leaders-index.html+Wahhabi,+Saudi-backed+radical+Muslims+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8Strange Bedfellows

Grover Norquist and Abdurahman Alamoudi

Thursday, October 04, 2001, Seth Gitell
During his presidential campaign and his first months in office, George W. Bush had no stronger supporter than Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform...But now, as Bush embarks on a war against terrorism, the president may find Norquist more of a liability than an asset.

http://www.islamicsupremecouncil.org/CMS/Topics/Leaders/1191043122002.htm

461 posted on 02/19/2003 6:04:36 PM PST by TLBSHOW (God Speed as Angels trending upward dare to fly Tribute to the Risk Takers)
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To: Amelia
Really? You are not concerned about sexual deviants being given positions of power? And being given those positions of power over good conservative people?

My Lord, what has happened to the mind of the conservative people?
462 posted on 02/19/2003 6:04:49 PM PST by Jael (Thy Word is Truth!)
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To: TLBSHOW
Ya know, Grover Norquist has a huge list of conservative credentials. Ever hear of The Contract With America?
463 posted on 02/19/2003 6:04:57 PM PST by LurkerNoMore!
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To: A Citizen Reporter
I'm impressed

You should be.

464 posted on 02/19/2003 6:06:11 PM PST by Jael (Thy Word is Truth!)
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To: Jael; mhking
Face the fact, supporting and condoning sexual deviancy is not a conservative value.

There you go again, Jael.....tossing those old facts right out the window to suit your own politically motivated narrow ideology. Shame on you.

465 posted on 02/19/2003 6:06:35 PM PST by ohioWfan (For God so loved THE WORLD that He gave His only begotten SON....)
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To: Howlin
Sorry smear artist but yes they are my words and just who did I say it was or do you read minds now? LOL
466 posted on 02/19/2003 6:06:50 PM PST by TLBSHOW (God Speed as Angels trending upward dare to fly Tribute to the Risk Takers)
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To: wimpycat
Thank you.

My relationship with my God is personal and private. I don't need someone sitting in judgement of me on this plane.

I also attempt to make that a policy with all that I encounter. Too bad some feel so insecure in their own belief system that they feel the need to preach to all...and thus miss many of their own shortcomings.
467 posted on 02/19/2003 6:07:12 PM PST by justshe (Eliminate Freepathons! Become a monthly donor. Only YOU can prevent Freepathons!)
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To: Jael

Bothers me..

I want to be represented, not sacrificed in some misguided effort to appease people with which I do not agree.

F*** inclusiveness.. Just include me out if that's the way it's going to be.

468 posted on 02/19/2003 6:07:58 PM PST by Jhoffa_ (Jhoffa_X)
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To: Jael
"My Lord, what has happened to the mind of the conservative people?"

You realize that we've seen this clap-trap before, and recognize it for what it is, re-tread.

469 posted on 02/19/2003 6:08:10 PM PST by A Citizen Reporter
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To: Amelia
Some advice, you had better think twice before you ever compare God's chosen people, the Jews, to a sexual deviant.

That is sick.

470 posted on 02/19/2003 6:08:11 PM PST by Jael (Thy Word is Truth!)
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To: TLBSHOW
He won't be the first President ill-served by those close to him who are supposed to prevent such idiocies from happening.
471 posted on 02/19/2003 6:08:41 PM PST by RightOnline
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To: Jael
You said:

To: Amelia

Are you implying that homosexuality is something normal? Why would you say that?

Why would you think a person with a sexual deviancy is best qualified to be in a position of power?

441 posted on 02/19/2003 8:50 PM EST by Jael (Thy Word is Truth!)

I did not state or imply whether I thought homosexuality was normal or abnormal. Please quote what I said that gave you that impression.

I try to say what I mean, and any attempts by you to "read in to" my statements will likely reflect your prejudices, not my feelings, unless you are a mindreader.

Having not seen the resumes of the contenders for the positions, I wouldn't know for certain who was best qualified. Apparently the President (who according to you selected 6 homosexuals) thought they were best qualified.

One of the "traditional" problems with having homosexuals in positions of power was that they could be blackmailed. If someone is openly homosexual, I wouldn't think that would apply.

472 posted on 02/19/2003 6:09:04 PM PST by Amelia
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To: deport; All
Let me get this straight. You people are calling this guy a democrat?

Like, as in you think he is one?

That is too funny!!!!!!

Is that like the worst thing you can think of? Because he posted an article by a very respected conservative?

I guess Regan is now a commie?
473 posted on 02/19/2003 6:09:08 PM PST by Jael (Thy Word is Truth!)
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To: TLBSHOW
Playing stupid won't work, Todd.

"I do not think President Bush is a traitor and I never said he was"

To: Sabertooth

I think I will have to say this country is being sold out from within and from who is what really saddens me tonight.

23 posted on 02/17/2003 11:27 PM PST by TLBSHOW (God Speed as Angels trending upward dare to fly Tribute to the Risk Takers)

474 posted on 02/19/2003 6:11:01 PM PST by A Citizen Reporter
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To: HairOfTheDog
Hmmm, does it?

Maybe it's just me? Is my old fashioned morality offending you?

475 posted on 02/19/2003 6:11:12 PM PST by Jael (Thy Word is Truth!)
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To: TLBSHOW
and just who did I say it was or do you read minds now? LOL

Well, since you were replying to this remark

Today's terrorists have full entrée into the White House.






19 posted on 02/18/2003 2:04 AM EST by Sabertooth



It's not all that hard to figure out.

476 posted on 02/19/2003 6:11:55 PM PST by Howlin
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To: justshe
Real Christians always preach and witness.
477 posted on 02/19/2003 6:11:55 PM PST by Jael (Thy Word is Truth!)
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To: Jhoffa_
Excellent.
478 posted on 02/19/2003 6:12:27 PM PST by Jael (Thy Word is Truth!)
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To: Jael
Aparently you are not acquainted with TBLSHOW's posting history. He has made statements equating the President with a liberal democrat.

I suggest you read up on the issue before you start making fun of people.

479 posted on 02/19/2003 6:12:28 PM PST by Miss Marple
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To: Jael
WHAT????????? I will choose to ignore that bizarre post/accusation.

Now, may I ask you a serious question to which I would like a direct an honest answer, Jael?

Have you ever accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, recognizing that you have been redeemed by His blood shed for you on the cross?

480 posted on 02/19/2003 6:13:12 PM PST by ohioWfan (For God so loved THE WORLD that He gave His only begotten SON....)
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