Posted on 01/14/2004 6:51:56 AM PST by SJackson
Conservatives who broke ranks now vindicated by Government probe of Islamic Society of North America
Paul Weyrich. Gary Bauer. Linda Chavez. Bill Donahue. Marc Gellman. Bailey Smith.
Five Christians, one Jew. All nationally known. Weyrich is CEO of the Free Congress Foundation, helped found the Moral Majority; Bauer. a former Presidential candidate, Chavez, a former Reagan administration official, Gelllman the Jewish half of TV's "God Squad," Donahue is the feisty critic of anti-Catholic bias, and Bailey Smith, a former Southern Baptist convention president who made headlines years ago for an anti-Semitic remark that he has long since retracted.
They are the true defenders of Judeo-Christian values. Now in light of the astounding front page story in today's Washington Post, they are prophets with honor.
Bauer et al were the few religious conservatives who objected to the queer spectacle of their fellow religious conservatives determination to work alongside a reputed terrorist-friendly Islamic group in order to oppose gay marriage.
Gellman of "God Squad" fame bolted the coalition soon after JewishWorldReview.com disclosed the connection. The rest called the alliance a morally repugnant fools errand that could seriously damage the antigay marriage movement. (Click HERE to read the article.)
Unlike other religious conservatives who ignored or declined requests from JewishWorldReview.com for comment, Bauer, et al didn't hesitate to break ranks.
QUEER SMEARS FOR THE STRAIGHT JEW What an honor: My personal history is central to the debate over gay marriage. Or at least that's what the Alliance for Marriage and the Orthodox Union seem to think. Not long after Brooklyn's Jewish Press, the most popular independently owned Jewish weekly, followed up on my expose of the unholy alliance between ISNA and the AFM, one of its editors received a queer phone call from an OU staffer. He impugned my professional integrity and made other baseless assertions. The group's Executive Vice President, Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb ignored requests for comment. But OU president Harvey Blitz last night promised to look into the matter which he deemed problematic.
The OU at least was sensible enough not to slime me in writing. Not so the AFM.
Not long after the OU phone call, the Washington Blade, a homosexual DC weekly, contacted the AFM regarding my story.
The AFM response —
Subject: Subject: Evan Gahr Claims in Certain Jewish Press Date: 12/22/2003 7:44:38 PM Eastern Standard Time From: Paul E. Rondeau To: Lou Chibbaro, Jr.
As you know, an individual named Evan Gahr has recently released a story on AFM . . .
Gahr has been been fired or in some way discharged from positions associated with at least three reputable organizations for his disreputable tactics. This is a matter of public record.
Who asked? Who cares?
Informed that the AFM had written a letter of recommendation for me to the Washington Blade, Paul Weyrich offered some oblique criticism. "The AFM must be a student of Lenin. He exhorted the faithful to always change the subject when you can't win an argument."
The Washington Post story most likely means the AFM is going to have a hard time changing the subject.
— Evan Gahr
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Now, their courage is likely to be noted. The Washington Post reports that according to "documents and officials," the "Senate Finance Committee has asked the Internal Revenue Service to turn over confidential tax and financial records, including donor lists, on dozens of Muslim charities and foundations as part of a widening congressional investigation into alleged ties between tax-exempt organizations and terrorist groups."
Among the groups that the Washington Post cites is ISNA, erstwhile colleague of such illustrious clerics as Barry Freundel a.k.a. Lieberman's Rabbi because the Presidential candidate worships at his shul; Daniel Lapin, president of Toward Tradition, Richard John Neuhaus, editor of First Things, and Yoel Schoenfeld, a top official of the Orthodox Union, and Richard Mouw, a leading Evangelist who is president of the Fuller Theological Seminary.
The Washington Post quotes an unnamed Senate staffer saying "all the groups we're looking at are suspected of having some connections to terrorism or of doing propaganda for terrorists. We're not presuming anybody's guilty."
The Post story does not quote any ISNA officials. And efforts to reach the group, which has thus far ignored previous JWR inquiries, were not successful. However, last week Sayyid M. Syeed, secretary-general of ISNA and the AFM board member, ISNA representative to the AFM advisory board, told Stacy McCain of the Washington Times, the only mainstream print reporter who had the gumption to follow-up on JewishWorldReview.com's story, that "it's very unfortunate that some people might have been misled" about his group, insisting that "we have a record of credibility, trustworthiness, balance and moderation."
Moderation?
(Excerpt) Read more at jewishworldreview.com ...
OH!...the latter. Shrillarys' grasping for all the $$$$ she can get. Her media bootlickers, will cover for her every time, on reflex...no matter what the costs.
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