Posted on 09/03/2002 5:34:41 AM PDT by RHOACO
BOB LONSBERRY
Written September 3, 2002
Today's Column
YOUR TAX DOLLARS SPREAD ISLAM ACROSS AMERICA
Why are your tax dollars being spent to spread Islam?
More to the point, why is the United States government paying to bring Middle Eastern and African Muslims here to teach their religion to us?
Sounds kooky, huh?
But its exactly whats happening.
Right now, 10 members of the Royal Saudi Department of Islamic Education are on a three-week tour of the United States visiting mosques and making public appearances to promote Islam and seek converts.
Paid for by the U.S. State Department.
Over the weekend, a Saudi government official whose job is to make sure everyone in that country is Muslim told a little mosque in suburban Salt Lake City that the goal is to convert everyone in the United States to Islam.
I kid you not.
He Muntaser Aseeri said that, with eight million Muslims in America already, If each one of them tried to reach 40 people here, all Americans would become Muslims.
Which is fine for him to say on his own dime.
But seems disgusting for the American taxpayer to have to underwrite. The 10 Commandments cant be displayed on public property, kids cant pray in schools and under God has to be taken out of the Pledge of Allegiance, but the federal government can financially sponsor the proselyting of what most of us consider a pagan religion.
Weird.
And dramatically at odds with the way most people read the Constitution.
It just seems wrong, as we approach the anniversary of 9-11, for Americans to be paying Saudis to travel the country promoting their governments religion.
Actually, it seems wrong at any time.
Yet this is at least the third such trip the U.S. State Department has paid for in recent months. Earlier propaganda tours included Muslim leaders and missionaries from Pakistan and Africa. The thinking is that this will foster and benefit from an American interest in Islam following the terrorist attacks on us last September.
For whatever reason, while we are supposedly at war with Islamic terrorists, the federal government has decided to put on a public relations campaign for Islam. Not just to put on its best face, but as the quote from the Saudi guy shows spread the dream of making the United States a Muslim nation.
Repeating: Weird.
Because, it wasnt Americans whose intolerance of Saudis drove them to go over there and kill thousands of people. No, it was Saudis whose intolerance of Americans drove them to come over here and kill thousands of people. So, if theres anybody who needs a diversity lesson on getting along with others, its them.
Not us.
Yet I dont suspect the Saudi government is about to pay a bunch of Baptist ministers to go over and teach those towel-headed heathens about the Lord Jesus Christ. Nor do I think theres much chance the Saudis will pay for some rabbis to fly over and give public seminars on the Passover.
Oh, thats right. I forgot.
Christianity and Judaism are illegal in Saudi Arabia.
The odd fact is, their religion gets a foothold here because were civilized, and ours cant get a foothold there because theyre not.
And your tax dollars are being spent to make us more like them.
Which raises another interesting question.
Why is the State Department trying to influence American opinion and culture?
I thought the role of the State Department was to handle foreign policy, not domestic religion or propaganda. I thought the job of the State Department was to assert American interest overseas, not subvert American culture at home.
Isnt the State Department supposed to teach the world about us, not us about the world? Shouldnt it be working to make the world more like America, not America more like the world?
I mean, isnt the State Department on our side not theirs?
There are troublesome problems in all of this. Not just the meddling of State Department social engineers in domestic matters, but the essential establishment of religion by the federal government and the inherent discrimination against all other religions not similarly funded.
The pope, for example, had to pay his own way to America, though he is a foreign religious official on a proselyting mission just like the Saudi clerics. Ditto for leaders of the Eastern and Greek Orthodox churches. And the Dalai Llama.
How could this happen?
How could this possibly represent the interests of the American people?
How could the Bush Administration be involved with this, and how could the Congress let it?
- by Bob Lonsberry © 2002
there are absolutely NO tech jobs up here in the northeast due to H1B, etc. nothing but touchy-feely gov't. jobs.
been there, done that, bought the t-shirt, don't wanna go back.
what are job prospects like?
The U.S. State Department is a fifth column within our country. They consistently try to prevent U.S. military action against the most ruthless and barbaric regimes in the world who desperately need the ever-loving s*** kicked out of them.
These state department people are the ones who have set up U.S. visa vending machines throughout the world to welcome the world's human debris to undermine our culture and convert or kill us. They never met a godless barbarian they didn't like.
Terrible
Echo
Reverberating
Ruination
Obedience over
Reason
Islam
Spiteful
Tenet
Major bump. Now we know why they hate the success and durability of a non-proselyte Judaism and appologetic Christianity, for their success is inherent, not done through aggressive unashamed jihad and other proselytist recruiting.
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