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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: Jael
Oh Good Grief
721 posted on 02/19/2003 7:36:11 PM PST by Mo1 (DC Chapter .. Patriots Rally for America IV .. on Saturday, March 1st)
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To: Chad Fairbanks
Hey Chad, do you live in Florida?
722 posted on 02/19/2003 7:36:30 PM PST by Joe Hadenuf
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To: aristeides
I'm not accusing him; I'm saying it outright. He hates George W. Bush and spends all his waking hours trying to find articles to post to tear him down.
723 posted on 02/19/2003 7:36:30 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Jael
I hope that doesn't mean you want to hammer nails into the heads of homosexuals... ;0)
724 posted on 02/19/2003 7:36:42 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks ("As God as my witness.....I thought Armadillos could fly")
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To: Jael

725 posted on 02/19/2003 7:37:27 PM PST by cmsgop ( Arby's says no more Horsey Sauce for Scott Ritter !!!!)
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To: Chad Fairbanks; rightwingreligiousfanatic; DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet; Howlin


Now we see the violence inherent in the system!

726 posted on 02/19/2003 7:37:30 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: Howlin
I'm a black man

Really?? I'm an 85 year old Chinese man!! How ironic is that??

727 posted on 02/19/2003 7:37:32 PM PST by ohioWfan
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To: Joe Hadenuf
I get it. You made a funny. Never heard THAT one before. A ha!

how do you do it, man?

728 posted on 02/19/2003 7:37:56 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks ("As God as my witness.....I thought Armadillos could fly")
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To: Miss Marple
Do you believe that sodomy is just a sin? Like lying?

729 posted on 02/19/2003 7:37:58 PM PST by Jael (Thy Word is Truth!)
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To: ohioWfan
I'm gay.
730 posted on 02/19/2003 7:38:04 PM PST by bonfire
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To: Mo1
First it was the Jews, now it's the Indians!

Any bets on who'll be next??

731 posted on 02/19/2003 7:38:08 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Jael
How many homosexuals have you led to Christ?
732 posted on 02/19/2003 7:38:11 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: TLBSHOW
"...but in my heart with my gift when he refused to bring Clinton up on charges in an instant that day the truth was told to me and I have fought it a long time back and forth hoping I was wrong maybe once since I recieved the gift of truth."

Todd, get help.

733 posted on 02/19/2003 7:38:22 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez (The Ever So Humble Banana Republican)
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To: Fred Mertz
"Do you realize how stupid you look?"

No, do you? Fred, your sniping replies are priceless.

734 posted on 02/19/2003 7:38:39 PM PST by A Citizen Reporter
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To: Jael
Let me begin by saying that I am 1) a Christian and 2) very anti-homosexuality ; hate the sin.......love the sinner.

Let me ask you some questions.

Is one sin any worse than another and if you claim it is, please give me your Scriptural reference?

Can an adulterer be a conservative?

Can a tax cheat be a conservative?

Can a hater be a conservative?

Can a sinner be a Christian and is a Christian also a sinner? (this one's too easy)

Is it yours or anyone else's place to rate sin?

Does employing any sinner indicate that the sin is condoned?

These are just a few things to consider. Any sinner who saturated his/her workplace or position with sinful acts should be removed. Likewise, if his/her sin is in check and does not affect the job, why should he/she not be employed?

Furthermore........if we are now to eliminate people from jobs because of sin, what are we to do? No one will be working.

If a homosexual man was appointed as the boys' swim coach, I might take issue. However, I might also have a similar issue if a philanderer was the girls' swim coach. I have no issue if either one wants to cook steaks at the local restaurant.

735 posted on 02/19/2003 7:38:57 PM PST by Southflanknorthpawsis (What kind of show is a TLB anyway?)
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To: Chad Fairbanks
I hope that doesn't mean you want to hammer nails into the heads of homosexuals... ;0)

I think just yours at the moment..

736 posted on 02/19/2003 7:39:02 PM PST by katnip
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To: bonfire
I'm glad someone is happy on this thread.
737 posted on 02/19/2003 7:39:15 PM PST by chnsmok
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To: TLBSHOW
Until you post that I said what you imply by name I will consider you to be just a troll trolling me... Grover Norquist is the enemy within that has our President fooled. That is the bottom line!

That's the truth, TLB. Too bad the bushbots don't see it with clarity. You're right again!

738 posted on 02/19/2003 7:39:22 PM PST by Fred Mertz
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To: Chad Fairbanks
Guess what? It's against the law in most states. It's deviant behavior.

It's not a conservative value at all.
739 posted on 02/19/2003 7:39:26 PM PST by Jael (Thy Word is Truth!)
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To: HairOfTheDog
I'm all for gratuitous sax and senseless violins...
740 posted on 02/19/2003 7:39:28 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks ("As God as my witness.....I thought Armadillos could fly")
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