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.
whitehouse.gov |Equal Treatment for Faith-Based Providers | Excerpt:In fact, faith-based organizations have every right to hold, express and practice their deepest convictions, so long as any inherently religious and worship-centered activities are separate, voluntary, and privately funded.
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.
Organization X is Islamic. Organization X claims it's doing activity Y. It asks for Z dollars to support activity Y.
- Organization X is getting money. That strengthens it.
- Organization X can shuffle money it used to spend on activity Y to other activities.
People are free to draw their own conclusions.