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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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621 posted on 02/19/2003 7:05:18 PM PST by Jael (Thy Word is Truth!)
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To: justshe
I assume you have a dictionary. I chose my words because of their connotations.
622 posted on 02/19/2003 7:05:33 PM PST by aristeides
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To: Chad Fairbanks
Copycat!
623 posted on 02/19/2003 7:05:39 PM PST by justshe (Eliminate Freepathons! Become a monthly donor. Only YOU can prevent Freepathons!)
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
Dear God. Bump.
624 posted on 02/19/2003 7:06:03 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
Dear God...

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625 posted on 02/19/2003 7:06:07 PM PST by Southflanknorthpawsis
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To: Chad Fairbanks
That was bad go to your room and play nintendo.
626 posted on 02/19/2003 7:06:19 PM PST by ATOMIC_PUNK (An American Fellowship of Freedom loving Conservatives..... <*[[[[[><)
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To: TLBSHOW

You speak as if the adults are not in charge, Todd.

627 posted on 02/19/2003 7:06:25 PM PST by Cultural Jihad
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To: Southflanknorthpawsis; Rebelbase
I'm in hell.
628 posted on 02/19/2003 7:06:34 PM PST by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet ("Uncommon valor was a common virtue." - Admiral Chester Nimitz)
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
You know that tune "Sweet Leaf"? Botany...
629 posted on 02/19/2003 7:06:40 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks ("As God as my witness.....I thought Armadillos could fly")
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To: Southflanknorthpawsis
Hey There!
630 posted on 02/19/2003 7:07:39 PM PST by cmsgop ( Arby's says no more Horsey Sauce for Scott Ritter !!!!)
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK
i have a errr... ummm... X-Box...
631 posted on 02/19/2003 7:07:44 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks ("As God as my witness.....I thought Armadillos could fly")
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK; Jael
But, you don't understand! I'm NOT a conservative according to Jael!

(I don't think the truth really matters to him/her as long as he/she can accuse others of not being 'pure' enough).

632 posted on 02/19/2003 7:08:27 PM PST by ohioWfan
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To: justshe
Hey, can't argue the logic... (unless it's an armadillo - they just won't listen to reason...)
633 posted on 02/19/2003 7:08:27 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks ("As God as my witness.....I thought Armadillos could fly")
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To: justshe
Online Dictionary.
634 posted on 02/19/2003 7:08:34 PM PST by aristeides
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
I'm in hell.

I was afraid to say it, but I think you're right.

635 posted on 02/19/2003 7:09:08 PM PST by Southflanknorthpawsis (What kind of show is a TLB anyway?)
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To: Chad Fairbanks
You know that tune "Cocaine"? Ummmm...uh...(let me think about this for a while. I'll get back to ya.)
636 posted on 02/19/2003 7:09:23 PM PST by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet ("Uncommon valor was a common virtue." - Admiral Chester Nimitz)
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To: Miss Marple
Sorry, I missed it. :-)
637 posted on 02/19/2003 7:09:40 PM PST by Jael (Thy Word is Truth!)
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To: Cultural Jihad
You speak as if the adults are not in charge, Todd.

Are the adults responsible for "Islam is a religion of peace"?

638 posted on 02/19/2003 7:09:51 PM PST by aristeides
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
Sodie Pop?
639 posted on 02/19/2003 7:10:04 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks ("As God as my witness.....I thought Armadillos could fly")
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To: TLBSHOW
That os was kept at bay during an important election of which I was correct what the out come would be weeks before it happened. We would have a landslid and take both houses. Not to mention almost every thread and post if I wasn't bashing them I was rubbing the truth in their faces that Jim and this site could not be beat and was the best on the net.

Are you claiming YOU won the election for Bush?

640 posted on 02/19/2003 7:10:18 PM PST by Howlin
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