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A Troubling Influence - An Islamic Fifth Column penetrates the White House
FrontPageMagazine ^ | 12/09/03 | Frank J Gaffney Jr.

Posted on 12/09/2003 1:37:45 AM PST by kattracks

Why We Are Publishing This Article by David Horowitz

The article you are about to read is the most disturbing that we at frontpagemag.com have ever published. As an Internet magazine, with a wide circulation, we have been in the forefront of the effort to expose the radical Fifth Column in this country, whose agendas are at odds with the nation’s security, and whose purposes are hostile to its own. In his first address to Congress after 9/11, the President noted that we are facing the same totalitarian enemies we faced in the preceding century. It is not surprising that their domestic supporters in the American Left should have continued their efforts to weaken this nation and tarnish its image. Just as there was a prominent internal Fifth Column during the Cold War, so there has been a prominent Fifth Column during the war on terror.

By no means do all the opponents of America’s war policies (or even a majority) fit this category. Disagreement among citizens is a core feature of any democracy and respect for that disagreement is a foundational value of our political system. The self-declared enemies of the nation are distinguished by the intemperate nature of their attacks on America and its President – referring to the one as Adolf Hitler, for example, or the other as the world’s “greatest terrorist state.” They are known as well by their political choices and associations. Many leaders of the movement opposing the war in Iraq have worked for half a century with the agents of America’s communist enemies and with totalitarian states like Cuba and the former USSR.

We have had no compunction about identifying these individuals and groups. America is no longer protected by geographical barriers or by its unsurpassed military technologies. Today terrorists who can penetrate our borders with the help of Fifth Column networks will have access to weapons of mass destruction that can cause hundreds of thousands of American deaths.  One slip in our security defenses can result in a catastrophe undreamed of before.

What is particularly disturbing, about the information in this article by former Reagan Defense official, Frank Gaffney, is that it concerns an individual who loves this country and would be the last person to wish it harm, and the first one would expect to defend it. I have known Grover Norquist for almost twenty years as a political ally. Long before I myself was cognizant of the Communist threat – indeed when I was part of one of those Fifth Column networks – Grover Norquist was mobilizing his countrymen to combat it. In the early 1980s, Grover was in the forefront of conservative efforts to get the Reagan Administration to support the liberation struggles of anti-Communists in Central America, Africa and Afghanistan.

It is with a heavy heart therefore, that I am posting this article, which is the most complete documentation extant of Grover Norquist’s activities in behalf of the Islamist Fifth Column. I have confronted Grover about these issues and have talked to others who have done likewise. But it has been left to Frank Gaffney and a few others, including Daniel Pipes and Steven Emerson, to make the case and to suffer the inevitable recriminations that have followed earlier disclosures of some aspects of this story.

Up to now, the controversy over these charges has been dismissed or swept under the rug, as a clash of personalities or the product of one of those intra-bureaucratic feuds so familiar to the Washington scene. Unfortunately, this is wishful thinking. The reality is much more serious. No one reading this document to its bitter end will confuse its claims and confirming evidence with those of a political cat fight. On the basis of the evidence assembled here, it seems beyond dispute that Grover Norquist has formed alliances with prominent Islamic radicals who have ties to the Saudis and to Libya and to Palestine Islamic Jihad, and who are now under indictment by U.S. authorities. Equally troubling is that the arrests of these individuals and their exposure as agents of terrorism have not resulted in noticeable second thoughts on Grover’s part or any meaningful effort to dissociate himself from his unsavory friends.

As Frank Gaffney’s article recounts, Grover’s own Islamic Institute was initially financed by one of the most notorious of these operatives, Abdurahman Alamoudi, a supporter of Hamas and Hezbollah who told the Annual Convention of the Islamic Association of Palestine in 1996, “If we are outside this country we can say ‘Oh, Allah destroy America.’ But once we are here, our mission in this country is to change it.” Grover appointed Alamoudi’s deputy, Khaled Saffuri to head his own organization. Together they gained access to the White House for Alamoudi and Sami al-Arian and others with similar agendas who used their cachet to spread Islamist influence to the American military and the prison system and the universities and the political arena with untold consequences for the nation.

Parts of this story have been published before, but never in such detail and never with the full picture of Islamist influence in view. No doubt, that is partly because of Grover Norquist’s large (and therefore intimidating) presence in the Washington community. Many have been quite simply afraid to raise these issues and thus have allowed Grover to make them seem a matter of individual personality differences. This suits his agendas well, as it does those of his Islamist allies. If matters in dispute reflect personal animosity or “racial” prejudice, as Grover insists, then the true gravity of these charges is obscured. The fact remains that while Grover has denied the charges or sought to dismiss them with such arguments on many occasions, he has never answered them. If he wishes to do so now, the pages of frontpagemag.com are open to him.

Many have been reluctant to support these charges or to make them public because they involve a prominent conservative. I am familiar with these attitudes from my years on the Left. Loyalty is an important political value, but there comes a point where loyalty to friends or to parties comes into conflict with loyalty to fundamental principles and ultimately to one’s country. Grover’s activities have reached that point. E.M. Forster, a weak-spirited liberal, once said that if he had to choose between betraying his country and his friends, he “hoped [he] would have the guts” to betray his country.

No such sentiment motivates this journal. In our war with the Islamo-fascists we are all engaged in a battle with evil on a scale that affects the lives and freedoms of hundreds of millions people outside this nation as well as within it. America is on the front line of this battle and there is no replacement waiting in the wings if it fails, or if its will to fight is sapped from within. This makes our individual battles to keep our country vigilant and strong the most important responsibilities we have. That is why we could not in good conscience do otherwise, than to bring this story to light.

 


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To: general_re
I have to disagree somewhat. The facts as they have been presented are actually quite compelling...if you're inclined to wild leaps of faith and judgement.

What we have is a consortium of barely related facts, he said she said anecdotes and a few odds and ends that when combined with a fair amount of Crazy Glue leads us to the inevitable conclusion that Grover Norquist is a traitor who has been selling this nation out for a few plates of latinum.

The problem is, Norquist has been a stalwart and tireless defender of conservative principles for decades and there are not a few that are unwilling to be convinced on what appears to be a collection of circumstantial tidbits and personal rivalries.
521 posted on 12/14/2003 10:58:13 PM PST by Bob J (www.freerepublic.net www.radiofreerepublic.com...check them out!)
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To: Bob J
If you're really interested in learning about the case against Nawash you could check out this article posted here on FR. This would be enough to convince me not to vote for him: speaking at an ANSWER rally, opposing anti-terrorism laws, treating Palestinian terrorism as if it were just another political choice.

Regarding your contention that lots of people donated to Nawash so what's wrong with Norquist hosting a fundraiser: a lot of people did probably donate to him based on stuff like his website and (I'm betting) not being aware of this other information. He was the Republican nominee, after all. A host of a fundraiser is presumed to have a greater familiarity with a candidate than someone sending in a small donation. Not to mention that this association with someone who has terrorist-defending viewpoints is part of a continuing pattern with Norquist.

522 posted on 12/14/2003 11:01:31 PM PST by AzJohn
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To: Trollstomper
I have no doubt that there is and has been a concerted effort by the Saudis to get Muslims into the highest parapets of political circles. I have a problem with Norquist being called a traitor and having him accused of knowingly selling this country down the river.

Have you been keeping up?
523 posted on 12/14/2003 11:01:55 PM PST by Bob J (www.freerepublic.net www.radiofreerepublic.com...check them out!)
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To: Bob J
Seems to me if Qatar is good enough for the US Army and Rummy to trust to hold Saddam, it's good enough to take a few bucks from to hold Free Market seminars for Muslims.
I've got one word for ya to consider, Bob...CUBA!
So, ipso facto, by comparison...Seems to me if Cuba is good enough for the US Army and Rummy to trust to hold terrorists, it's good enough to take a few bucks from to hold Free Market seminars for Castro.
It just don't sound good.
524 posted on 12/14/2003 11:04:26 PM PST by philman_36
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To: Sabertooth
Bump! Thanks for keeping Freepers' honest.
525 posted on 12/14/2003 11:04:55 PM PST by Pro-Bush (Homeland Security + Tom Ridge = Open Borders --> Demand Change!)
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To: Bob J
What we have is a consortium of barely related facts, he said she said anecdotes and a few odds and ends that when combined with a fair amount of Crazy Glue leads us to the inevitable conclusion that Grover Norquist is a traitor who has been selling this nation out for a few plates of latinum.

Inevitably, yes indeed. I particularly like how our Obligatory Insider is hammering on the "facts", when crackpot logic doesn't really rely on the facts per se anyway. You know the drill, I'm sure. The government owns satellites. Yesterday my car got a flat tire. Therefore, government satellites made my tire go flat. Well, wassamatter - you're not questioning the FACTS, are you? Just try to point out anything wrong with my facts, bub - you can't, so I'm right.

Beautiful, eh? Nevermind that the problem really isn't the facts in the first place - it's the ridiculous conclusion they're being pressed into serving that's the problem.

526 posted on 12/14/2003 11:06:42 PM PST by general_re (Knife goes in, guts come out! That's what Osaka Food Concern is all about!)
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To: philman_36
So, ipso facto, by comparison...Seems to me if Cuba is good enough for the US Army and Rummy to trust to hold terrorists, it's good enough to take a few bucks from to hold Free Market seminars for Castro.

We are in Guantanamo due to a long term agreement worked out with the Bautista government. Castro didn't want to give the US cause for an invasion so he simply observed the terms.

Seriously, this is not the mountain you want to die on.

527 posted on 12/14/2003 11:16:21 PM PST by Bob J (www.freerepublic.net www.radiofreerepublic.com...check them out!)
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To: AzJohn
C'mon. Another hit piece from FrontPage that has already proven a prepdisposition for disliking Norquist.

You'll have to do better than that.
528 posted on 12/14/2003 11:17:33 PM PST by Bob J (www.freerepublic.net www.radiofreerepublic.com...check them out!)
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To: Trollstomper
..if you are being paid by a foreign government and its US fronts, or if you are or have has a registered lobbying relationship to the person or group you are bringing. All the latter applied and apply to Grover and he did not disclose them ..

Thanks for the detailed reply. If GN is acting as an agent for a foreign government and is not registered as such, that is a serious breach. I still don't see why he's supposed to be part of WH security. But apparently one sees that or one doesn't; with over 500 posts there is no resolution of the issue on either side. Time for me to sign off and get some sleep.

529 posted on 12/14/2003 11:17:48 PM PST by MrNatural (..".You want the truth?!"...)
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To: AzJohn
Regarding your contention that lots of people donated to Nawash so what's wrong with Norquist hosting a fundraiser...

No one that I can see has been defending Norquist per se, we're just wondering why the focus on him when security breaches seem to have been the rule of the day and by much larger fish than him.

530 posted on 12/14/2003 11:19:21 PM PST by Bob J (www.freerepublic.net www.radiofreerepublic.com...check them out!)
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To: Bob J; Trollstomper
Now, I don't know this guy from Adam so I did what you suggested, a little googling. Here's what I found out about the this Ismamist manica, this crazed terrorsymp, this danger to Western civilization.

Here, I'll help (the key is to add "alamoudi" to your search)...

Islam Online- News Section
... man "with a Libyan accent". "He told me this is untrue, " said Kamal
Nawash told IOL over the phone. But Nawash declined to comment ...
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Nawash: "I am ... that you join me in supporting … Kamal Nawash …Toward that ...
www.danielpipes.org/blog/86 - 17k - Dec 13, 2003 - Cached - Similar pages

[Weblog]United States of America v. Abdurahman Muhammad Alamoudi
... To this mounting evidence, Maher Hanania, one of Alamoudi's lawyers (and another
partner of Kamal Nawash; on whom, see http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/86 ...
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Look at that, a Free Republic thread...

Connecting the Islamist Dots
FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | 10/15/03 | Evan McCormick

Posted on 10/15/2003 2:07:38 AM PDT by kattracks

To Muslim political groups in Washington, American Muslim Council founder Abdurahman Alamoudi is a respected political leader.

To the Clinton administration, Alamoudi was credible enough to be allowed to certify Islamic chaplains for the Pentagon.

To the Libyan regime of Muammar Qadhafi, Alamoudi has been a paid agent worthy of receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash.

To the FBI and Department of Homeland Security, Alamoudi is a bankroller of terrorists abroad and here at home.

And to U.S. Magistrate Judge Theresa Buchanan, Alamoudi is a danger to society and a flight risk as he awaits trial in jail as an alleged key figure in an international terror network.

Alamoudi’s arrest on September 29 was a crushing blow to the self-appointed groups in Washington that claim to represent American Muslims.

Federal prosecutors allege that Alamoudi broke US law by traveling to Libya, and meeting with officials who sought to use his Washington political contacts to lift sanctions on the terrorist-sponsoring regime.  A criminal complaint contends that Alamoudi met with leaders of the World Islamic Call Society (WICS), a para-statal Islamic “charity” which Qadhafi founded and controls.  WICS would give Alamoudi a cut from the funds he was able to unfreeze.

But the case became even more serious at Alamoudi’s detention hearing, when US Attorney Steve Ward gave a detailed outline of Alamoudi’s intimate connections with global terrorists and politically active Muslim organizations in the US.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement Special Agent Brett Gentrup testified that in a phone call to an unnamed individual, Alamoudi discussed in detail the tactical nature of terrorist attacks.  In the transcripts, Alamoudi states, “The Jewish Community Center.  It is a worthy operation,” referring to the 1994 bombing of one such center in Argentina that killed 86 people.  “Even though we are very sorry for the death of the innocent. You have to choose the target so as not to put the Muslim in an uncomfortable situation.”

FBI Special Agent Todd Price testified that the Portland, Oregon branch of Alamoudi’s American Muslim Foundation made payouts to two individuals—Patrice Lumumba Ford and Ahmed Bilal—apprehended last October by the government on terrorist charges.  Bilal pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to aid the Taliban, while Ford is awaiting trial on more serious charges of conspiracy to wage war on the US and providing material support to al-Qaeda.

As proof, the government produced copies of checks bearing the recipients’ names, drawn on the accounts of the Portland branch of the AMF.  In a classic Wahhabi sleight-of-hand maneuver, Alamoudi’s lawyer May Kheder claimed that AMF Portland has no affiliation with the national organization.  Special Agent Price quickly laid that fallacious claim to rest by reading from the Foundation’s IRS form 990 which clearly lists Portland as an affiliate.  Kheder’s tactic was reminiscent of a recent claim by Executive Director Nihad Awad of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in attempting to explain away the arrest of CAIR-Texas founder Ghassan Elashi.  “The fact that he was once associated with one of our almost twenty regional chapters,” said Awad in submitted testimony to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorism, “has no legal significance to our corporation.”    

As the evidence continues to mount in the case against Alamoudi, the outlook becomes ever bleaker for the many Wahhabi-backed Muslim groups in which he played an integral role.  Since the early 1980’s, Alamoudi has held posts with as many as fifteen American organizations supportive of the Wahhabi cause.  Six of those groups have been raided by US federal agents since September 11, 2001, and more are currently under the scrutiny of federal investigators.

Soliman Biheiri, an advisory board member at Alamoudi’s most successful project, the American Muslim Council (AMC), was convicted yesterday on two counts of violating US immigration law.  US prosecutors have cited Biheiri as, “the financial toehold of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States.”  At Alamoudi’s detention hearing, Special Agent Price reviewed the translated text of a Libyan website that identifies Alamoudi as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood as well.  Although Alamoudi no longer serves with the AMC, the federal affidavit alleges that he maintains oversight of the group. 

Alamoudi’s AMC, which was once called “the most mainstream Muslim group in the US,” by the spokesman for the FBI director, has enjoyed unfettered access to the Bush administration since September 11, 2001.  In meetings with high level officials like FBI Director Robert Mueller and Senior Policy Advisor Karl Rove, the AMC has lobbied to oppose the Administration’s policies in the War on Terror and to further their radical agenda.

One aspect of that agenda includes the recruitment of radical Muslims to serve as military chaplains.  The American Muslim Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs Council (AMAFVAC), which has come under suspicion in a widening probe of espionage activities by Muslim US Servicemen at Guantanamo bay, was first overseen by Alamoudi.  Formed as a spinoff of the AMC and headed by former AMC official Qaseem Uqdah, the AMAFVAC is one of two Islamic organizations certified by the Department of Defense to endorse military chaplains.  In fact, at the swearing-in ceremony of the first Muslim chaplain, Captain Abdul Rasheed Muhammad, it was none other than Abdurahman Alamoudi who pinned the crescent moon insignia on Muhammad’s uniform.

Even a look at Alamoudi’s legal team turns up familiar faces in the domestic Wahhabi network.  One of Alamoudi’s lawyers is Kamal Nawash, an outspoken apologist for Hamas and Palestinian terrorists, who has previously served as the legal advisor at the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), a group that has worked alongside Alamoudi in opposing to the Bush Administration’s War on Terror.

Though he was not present in the courtroom, Nawash sprung to Alamoudi’s defense in an Islam Online article in which the lawyer states, “[Alamoudi] has no links whatsoever to violence or terrorism.  On the contrary, he supported the US war on terrorism.” 

Nawash was equally quick to politically distance himself from Alamoudi in preparation for his upcoming Virginia state senate election campaign.  The Washington Post reported that in August, Nawash returned two campaign donation checks of $5,000 to Abdurahman Alamoudi and his wife, Shifa.  While taking up Alamoudi’s defense in court, it seems that the political danger of associating with a lawbreaking supporter of terrorist causes was too much.

Kamal Nawash has his own set of political connections that would be devastated if US attorneys sufficiently connect the dots during Alamoudi’s criminal trial.  Grover Norquist, a Republican lobbyist well connected to the Bush administration through Policy Advisor Karl Rove, has been instrumental in Nawash’s campaign, personally hosting a fundraiser at his residence on August 6th.  Norquist also served as the Founding Chairman of the Islamic Institute, which received its initial funding from none other than Abdurahman Alamoudi.

The arrest and detention of Alamoudi is another in a succession of important victories in the War on Terror.  The expanding probe into groups tainted by Alamoudi’s criminal extremism will only yield more.    

Evan McCormick is the Henry M. Jackson National Security Fellow at the Center for Security Policy in Washington, DC.  He is a recent graduate of Boston University.
Connecting the Islamist Dots
FrontPageMagazine.com | 10/15/03 | Evan McCormick
Posted on 10/15/2003 2:07:38 AM PDT by kattracks

More on Nawash, from Daniel Pipes...

Weblog
Hussein Ibish's Favorite Political Candiate?
September 10, 2003

Hussein Ibish's Favorite Political Candiate? Kamal Nawash, an immigration lawyer and legal director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) since 1997, has thrown his hat in the ring as a Republican candidate for state senator in the 31st district of Virginia. His campaign website offers stances only on the sort of issues a state senator might deal with (baseball stadium construction, traffic, property taxes, etc.) but, as a long-standing staffer of the extremist ADC and a colleague of the notorious Hussein Ibish (who endorses Nawash as "an extremely patriotic and dedicated American"), one cannot wonder what Nawash thinks on national issues such as the need to take steps to protect the country from Islamist terrorists who wish to enter it. (September 10, 2003)

Sept. 11, 2003 update: A reader points out that Mr. Nawash's views on at least one national issue are known. He was quoted extensively in June 2000 responding to the just-issued, anondyne recommendations of the National Commission on Terrorism. Nawash took the opportunity to make it known that he does not support an effective self-protection against terrorism, holding that this would violate "basic Constitutional rights." He added that "if implemented, the recommendations by the Commission would more likely than not severely damage civil liberties and facilitate abusive behavior by the government." Of particular interest (given that several 9/11 hijackers used a student cover), is Nawash's objection to the U.S. government tracking foreign students, protesting (nonsensically) that this step would indicate "a willingness to restrict scientific knowledge and scholarship to certain classes of people and to flout, basically, principles of academic freedom." Sounds like this man opposes the war on terrorism; in any case, he sure makes for a strange Republican candidate.

Sept. 14, 2003 update: Nawash is getting support for his candidacy from some suspicious quarters. Abdurahman Alamoudi, former head of the American Muslim Council whose contribution was returned by Hilary Clinton, sent out a fundraising letter urging support for Nawash: "I am urging you today to ask that you join me in supporting É Kamal Nawash ÉToward that end I have personally contributed money to Kamal's election campaign." And Grover Norquist, the Republican activist who paved the way for militant Islamic groups to enter the Bush White House, is hosting a fundraiser for Nawash in his own house.

Sept. 15, 2003 update: Another reader points out that Nawash wrote an interesting note that begins, "Recently, ADC has received many questions about why we dont sue pro-Israeli organizations," and goes on to explain how expensive this course of action is, but then adds that "this is not to say that we are not interested in suing" and expresses his hope that ADC will be in a financial position to do so in the future. Nawash might argue that in writing this he was "just doing his job" at ADC, but of course bashing Israel is inherent to what the legal director at ADC does.

Sept. 23, 2003 update: According to a web-posting, Nawash spoke at a "Muslim Solidarity Day for Justice and Peace" rally near the White House on May 24, 2003, promoted by International ANSWER, an organization that David Horowitz has identified as a "front for a Marxist-Leninist party with ties to the Communist regime in North Korea." Pretty curious company for a Republican, no?

Sept. 25, 2003 update: U.S. Senator John Warner (Republican from Virginia) is quoted on the Nawash website stating that "Kamal is an impressive candidate" and asking for votes for him: "Please join me in supporting Kamal." It's a significant endorsement and Virginians might wish to inform their senior senator that he is, to put it mildly, going out on a limb on this one.

Sept. 26, 2003 update: Something called the "Islamic Political Party of America," an organization whose mission, among other goals, is "to establish the first Islamic political party in America" and which invites only Muslims to join, lists Nawash as one of the three candidates it endorses in this year's elections. (And in case an Islamic Political Party of America does not sound serious, take a look at the Islamic Party of Britain, [www.islamicparty.com] founded in 1989, which is quoted by the major media and is a factor in UK Muslim politics.)

Sept. 27, 2003 update: Nawash penned a long analysis, "Are Arab Americans Being Unjustly and Illegally Deprived of Their Constitutional Rights?" for "Al-Hewar Center for Arab Culture and Dialogue" sometime between February and August 1998, in which he made some interesting statements.

  • He indicates that what the U.S. government deems Palestinian terrorist organizations are for him merely "Palestinian groups who have differing views than the U.S. government concerning the Arab/Israeli peace process."
  • He criticizes the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, a Clinton-era law that allows the Secretary of State to designate foreign terrorist organizations, for what he calls the "criminalization of international fundraising and humanitarian aid."
  • He dismisses the whole notion of terrorism by arguing that "any liberation movement that takes up arms against a repressive regime that is friendly with the president serving at the time could receive a terrorist label," and gives as one example "those colonial soldiers who took up arms against the British during the U.S. War of Independence."

With such a record of apologetics for terrorism, do the good folk of the 31st district of Virginia want Kamal Nawash serving as their state senator?

Sept. 28, 2003 update: Nawash seems not to be bothered by so-called honor-killings (when family members kill a female relative for alleged sexual trespasses). Here he discusses the subject on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered," talking about the persons who carry out such murders:

While they think what they're doing is bad, they don't see that what they're doing is similar to a killer who kills, for example, for financial gain or anything, because these people who do honor killings could be the most moral of people, but they--you know, because this is something that means so much to him, it will get all the rage out of him that he's never seen before and might make him react irrationally, such as killing a female member in the family.

The way Nawash puts it, these killings sound constructively therapeutic.

Oct. 1, 2003 update: Abdurahman Alamoudi, the prominent Islamist leader, was arrested on terrorism-related charges on Sept. 28 (on which, see http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/98) and an Alamoudi-Nawash tie quickly emerged. (1) Alamoudi and his wife, Shifa, made the single largest donations to Nawash's campaign, in March and May 2003. (2) In August 2003, "after an emotional conversation with Alamoudi," Nawash returned the money because, as Nawash put it in the The Washington Post, "I think it could hurt me more than help me." (3) Despite this distancing of his campaign from Alamoudi, Nawash had this to say in defense of Alamoudi after the latter's arrest: "He is just a liberal Muslim, who wants more Muslims to be involved in the U.S. military and politics to be part of America."

Oct. 22, 2003 update: Legal papers filed today indicate that Alamoudi is being represented by a team of three lawyers: Stanley L. Cohen, an independent practioner in New York City; James P. McLoughlin, Jr., of Moore & Van Allen, PLLC in Charlotte, N.C.; and May Kheder, of Hanania, Kheder & Nawash, P.C. in Falls Church, Va. The last of these, of course, is a partner of Kamal Nawash.

Oct. 27, 2003 update: Chris Arabia has come out today, at FrontPageMagazine.com, with the first analysis of the Nawash campaign at "Islamists' Favorite Republican."

Oct. 30, 2003 update: "She is a mean-spirited racist," Nawash is quoted in today's Washington Times, speaking about his opponent in the general election, Democrat Mary Margaret Whipple. The reason Whipple focuses on Nawash's connection to Alamoudi, he says, "is because she wants to draw innuendo and say, ÔLook at this guy. He is a Muslim and he has ties over here to terrorists.'" But then Nawash goes on to concede that (1) he commented publicly on the Alamoudi case, (2) he identified himself as someone who knows Alamoudi, and (3) he was identified as Alamoudi's attorney by the Islamist Internet site islam-online.net, not by Whipple. So why the vituperation against Whipple? Is this a glimpse of the ADC style of politics?

Nov. 5, 2003 update: The Nov. 4 election results are in and with 94 percent of precincts reporting today as of 3:00 p.m. EST, the Commonwealth of Virginia declares that Mary Margaret Whipple received 70 percent of the vote and Kamal M. Nawash 30 percent. Despite newspaper accounts suggesting that Nawash raised more money than Whipple, the Virginia Public Access Project indicates otherwise, with $95,267 for him and $121,738 for her.

Nov. 10, 2003 update: In a post-mortem on the election race, Nawash credits the "numerous hits" he received from this blog to having contributed to his defeat.
Hussein Ibish's Favorite Political Candiate?
Daniel Pipes.org | September 10, 2003


531 posted on 12/14/2003 11:20:38 PM PST by Sabertooth (Credit where it's due: saveourlicense.com prevented SB60, and the Illegal Alien CDLs... for now.)
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To: Bob J
No one that I can see has been defending Norquist per se, we're just wondering why the focus on him when security breaches seem to have been the rule of the day and by much larger fish than him.

Exactly.

532 posted on 12/14/2003 11:24:21 PM PST by general_re (Knife goes in, guts come out! That's what Osaka Food Concern is all about!)
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To: general_re
Oh good, you're back.
Shall we continue were we left off at? You did read my replies at 399-403, didn't you?
533 posted on 12/14/2003 11:24:25 PM PST by philman_36
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To: AzJohn
It's like fishing for crappie when the largemouths are snapping at surface lures in the reeds.

"It's not whether you can bend the spoon, but why you would want to".

The truth is out there. For a moment, take your attention off the details and look at the big picture.

534 posted on 12/14/2003 11:24:55 PM PST by Bob J (www.freerepublic.net www.radiofreerepublic.com...check them out!)
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To: philman_36
Sorry, I missed 'em. Gimme a minute.
535 posted on 12/14/2003 11:25:28 PM PST by general_re (Knife goes in, guts come out! That's what Osaka Food Concern is all about!)
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To: Bob J
Seriously, this is not the mountain you want to die on.
Why are you threatening me?
536 posted on 12/14/2003 11:25:33 PM PST by philman_36
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To: Bob J
"What we have is a consortium of barely related facts, "

No, What we have here is a failure to Comprehend. Or, possibly, an overweaning infatuation with hirsute tax heroes of days past (i.e., before the above-mentioned record spending phase).

Please list ten of this "constortium" and provide proof that they are unrelated, specious, etc.

Then list 10 facts of your own that exonerate Grover on the main allegations which you find to be "circumstantial."

"Problem is" as you like to say: you can't. You have been asked regularly through these 500 postings to do so. Everytime you now repeat the same assertions they become less and less excusable.

Alternately, how about trying to sustain any of Norquist's attacks on Gaffney as a "racist and bigot," (this would help assuage your sensitivity toward "personal attacks," "hits" and "personal rivalries" etc.)

Or you can attempt to excuse away any of the lies Grover's recently told -- starting with the Hewitt show assertion that Al Arian "has never been in the WH" and the WH just told Grover so on the magic phone.

Hurry, because when you finish that last one, you can join up with Sami and Grover and get rich suing the Washington Post, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, et al for lying and defaming Sami and Grover's fine reputation.

Then maybe you could spend that money on a trip to Washington to meet your hero, and join a Close Up class to learn how your government works. We could have some Domino's and make sure you're very comfortable. Later, maybe we could go to down to the range and shoot some Gaffney targets. You game? for anything?


537 posted on 12/14/2003 11:28:23 PM PST by Trollstomper
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To: Bob J
No one that I can see has been defending Norquist per se, we're just wondering why the focus on him when security breaches seem to have been the rule of the day and by much larger fish than him.
All right, then you call out who is responsible for those security breaches and flag me to those threads. I'd like to hear what you've got to say and who those "large fish" are.
538 posted on 12/14/2003 11:28:47 PM PST by philman_36
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To: Sabertooth
You keep piling up all those articles as beakers crash around you.

Look around 'tooth. I never thought you'd be duped so easily. Ask the lurking Merc...I'm sure she's figured this one out already, it's right up her alley.

539 posted on 12/14/2003 11:31:53 PM PST by Bob J (www.freerepublic.net www.radiofreerepublic.com...check them out!)
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To: philman_36
Seriously, this is not the mountain you want to die on. Why are you threatening me?

It's a phrase Francis, lighten up.

540 posted on 12/14/2003 11:32:58 PM PST by Bob J (www.freerepublic.net www.radiofreerepublic.com...check them out!)
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