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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
Repeating your same a priori opinion about sexual preference on a thread that had another topic, is one way to cause a thread to bog down and lose its focus. This is particularly effective if you post the same opinion in a tendentious way each and every time, in order to bait folks into responding. With even more skill along these lines, one can succeed in getting a thread locked, moved to the back room, or deleted. If we had enough folks like you in this neighborhood to reach critical mass, this forum would be destroyed.

JMO.

741 posted on 02/19/2003 7:39:39 PM PST by Torie
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To: Jael
So you decided YOU were blessed, huh?

Have you met Todd in person; he has a "gift," you know. His is kind of like a "special purpose."

742 posted on 02/19/2003 7:39:46 PM PST by Howlin
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To: chnsmok
lol!
743 posted on 02/19/2003 7:39:55 PM PST by bonfire
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To: ohioWfan
Tsk. Goodnight!!!!
744 posted on 02/19/2003 7:40:16 PM PST by Jael (Thy Word is Truth!)
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To: Howlin
You are so full of tall tales that you could become a Fairy tale writer LOL
745 posted on 02/19/2003 7:40:28 PM PST by TLBSHOW (God Speed as Angels trending upward dare to fly Tribute to the Risk Takers)
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To: Howlin
When I was in school they called it "special needs".
746 posted on 02/19/2003 7:40:49 PM PST by bonfire
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To: cmsgop

747 posted on 02/19/2003 7:40:49 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: bonfire
I'm gay, too.

And if you are, so damn what! I still like you.

748 posted on 02/19/2003 7:41:10 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Rebelbase
Only one. But he died.
749 posted on 02/19/2003 7:41:24 PM PST by Jael (Thy Word is Truth!)
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To: Jael
For high government appointments, an Indian is always the better choice over a sexual deviant. In fact, maybe that's the problem. We need more Indians and less sexual deviants.

ROFL! That is so precious!

750 posted on 02/19/2003 7:41:47 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: ohioWfan
Really?? I'm an 85 year old Chinese man!! How ironic is that??

Then there is that wench in the iron lung typing out words with a pencil held between her teeth!

Talk about your DIVERSITY!
751 posted on 02/19/2003 7:41:57 PM PST by justshe (Eliminate Freepathons! Become a monthly donor. Only YOU can prevent Freepathons!)
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To: Rebelbase
Oh My! Im gonna have Nightmares!
752 posted on 02/19/2003 7:41:58 PM PST by cmsgop ( Arby's says no more Horsey Sauce for Scott Ritter !!!!)
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To: Jael
You may want to look again... that unconstitutional law has been removed in most states... secondly, a lot of conservatives break the law... why can't you admit that you just have an irrational hatred of homosexuals... I mean, hating the sin is fine, but to hate the sinner? Not very christian-like...
753 posted on 02/19/2003 7:42:04 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks ("As God as my witness.....I thought Armadillos could fly")
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To: HairOfTheDog
Darn... I'm a sexually-deviant indian... I like oral sex... oh no! That's GASP! Sodomy!!!!!! Yikes!
754 posted on 02/19/2003 7:43:17 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks ("As God as my witness.....I thought Armadillos could fly")
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To: Jael
How about witches, Jael.... Would you rather have a witch or a sexual deviant in a government office?
755 posted on 02/19/2003 7:43:28 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: bonfire
How ironic is that?

(Are you series?)

756 posted on 02/19/2003 7:43:29 PM PST by ohioWfan
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To: Howlin
You forgot to mention that Todd is also an advisor to the President.
757 posted on 02/19/2003 7:43:41 PM PST by Carolinamom
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To: Chad Fairbanks
How Christian is it to regard Mohammedanism as a "religion of peace"?
758 posted on 02/19/2003 7:43:55 PM PST by aristeides
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To: chnsmok
Very well done! :-)
759 posted on 02/19/2003 7:44:03 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Southflanknorthpawsis
It's the abmonination issue.

But Check Romans 1.

www.justbible.com

I never thought I would see the day where people on FR were arguing for sodomy.

(Not that you are.....)
760 posted on 02/19/2003 7:44:05 PM PST by Jael (Thy Word is Truth!)
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