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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.
Howlin' Wolf
No kidding! I was just trying to find out why homosexuals couldn't be conservatives. I started asking back at post 224, and I haven't gotten an answer yet.
2. You do not know that these people were appointed to placate the homosexual lobby. My guess is that most of them were the best in their areas of expertise, given the president's track record on appointments.
3. The Constitution makes no mention of homosexuals. None. A conservative is free to appoint a homosexual, assuming that the person is not a security risk.
4. Others with sins have been appointed to positions within the administration. The newly appointed Secretary of the Treasury was involved in a child support issue over his DIVORCE. If you go through every one of the presidient's appointments, I am certain you will find people that are divorced, had an affair, stole from petty cash, smoked, drank, failed to pay parking tickets, and didn't attend church every Sunday.
ALL HAVE SINNED AND FALLEN SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD. Homosexuality is a sin, in my opinion, but so is adultery, bearing false witness, stealing, and envy. If you want the President to deny appointments to homosexuals, you should expect him to deny appointments to all the other sinners as well.
Of course, we will have a hard time finding appointees, but what the heck, let's just run the government like Oliver Cromwell.
Yes, thread Sheriff, whatever you say.......LOL
Do you realize how stupid you look?
It's lonely over there on the hating side, isn't it, Toddie?
washes away the problem
There is no problem here that you haven't made up in your own mind.
and in the desire to get me hasn't stopped all day.
You're not important enough in the scheme of the world to "get," even though you think you're pretty important, what with Bush listening to you and all.
We're interested in the truth being posted; you never post it. And expect a 600 thread every single time you say Bush is in bed with terrorists.
That's a lie, and you are a liar if you continue to say it.
Isn't it leftists who accuse their opponents of being on the side of "hate"?
Uh oh.....here she goes again!
Why are his beliefs so important to you?
What are your beliefs?
If that's not 'impurity' in your eyes, what is? Homosexuality seems to be the only thing you care about, and anyone who doesn't share your (strange) obsession with it is blasted by you, regardless of the truth of where they stand on the issue.
This has nothing to do with Biblical morality, because I would guess that we might even agree on that.....though you've never been decent enough to ask. (Homosexual behavior is an abomination to God, and it's disgusting).
I've said it before, Jael. YOU are a PHONY....and you've been BUSTED.
And I'm outta here. It's exhausting arguing with incoherent 'old thread nannies'......especially sanctimonious ones like you.
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