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To: FreeReign

I think your positions are easy to discount. You argue that federal dollars issued to mosques are not beneficial to Islamic organizations in this country. That's false right on its face. How do you know that every dollar will go to "Islamic basketball," or "Ramadan period English lessons?" You don't. In fact, money given to mosques for any reason will benefit them in ways that will make Islam stronger in America. I don't want that, and even if you do, I will take a strong position against my tax dollars being used in any way that could benefit Islam here. Islam is free to flourish on its own, assuming we don't encourage a lot more Islamic people to immigrate, but it doesn't need my tax dollars to help it along.


48 posted on 04/15/2005 7:46:41 PM PDT by risk
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To: risk
I think your positions are easy to discount. You argue that federal dollars issued to mosques are not beneficial to Islamic organizations in this country. That's false right on its face. How do you know that every dollar will go to "Islamic basketball," or "Ramadan period English lessons?" You don't.

The policy clearly states that any "religious and worship-centered activities are separate, voluntary, and privately funded."

Could there be some dollars that go to religious activity -- including Islamic activity -- instead of direct charity benefit? I don't know. I can't guarantee that there isn't. But there could also be some dollars that got to secular organizations and secular activities such as the advocation of statism.

The point is if you feel there is that much corruption, then shutdown all government funding of charities. Don't single out any charity for corruption without any evidence.

You think that it is easy to discount the above statement. I think that it is hard to discount the above statement and I think that it's even harder to selectively single out some organizations and not others when discounting the above statemnt.

Go figure.

50 posted on 04/15/2005 8:07:09 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: risk
How do you know that every dollar will go to "Islamic basketball," or "Ramadan period English lessons?"

Simple. They spend as much or more on the program than the gov't funds. Its not rocket science. In fact, all gov't funding as similar strings attached and they are monitored.

Using your test, how can we be sure the money for roads are not ending up in the pocket of a Muslim who will spend it on preaching Islam?

You create a straw dog designed to appeal to the fear of bigots rather than to beat instead of a substantive argument against.

53 posted on 04/15/2005 8:13:10 PM PDT by Raycpa
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