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YOUR TAX DOLLARS SPREAD ISLAM ACROSS AMERICA
Bob Lonsberry ^ | 9/03/2002 | Bob Lonsberry

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 it’s exactly what’s 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 can’t be displayed on public property, kids can’t 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 government’s 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 it’s 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 wasn’t 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 there’s anybody who needs a diversity lesson on getting along with others, it’s them.

Not us.

Yet I don’t 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 there’s much chance the Saudis will pay for some rabbis to fly over and give public seminars on the Passover.

Oh, that’s right. I forgot.

Christianity and Judaism are illegal in Saudi Arabia.

The odd fact is, their religion gets a foothold here because we’re civilized, and ours can’t get a foothold there because they’re 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.

Isn’t the State Department supposed to teach the world about us, not us about the world? Shouldn’t it be working to make the world more like America, not America more like the world?

I mean, isn’t 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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: 911; balkans; islam; muntaseraseeri; muslim; usstatedepartment
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To: RHOACO
The US Department of State, along with other US agencies and departments, needs to be completely torn down and rebuilt on a much smaller scale. All government needs to be bulldozed and the lifers who lurk within the corridors need to find suitable work. Most a suited to carrying out the garbage or flipping burgers at McDonald's. They'd have a tough time finding meaningful employment in basic industry here as our basic industries are now grinding out product in foreign lands.
41 posted on 09/03/2002 7:59:11 AM PDT by elcaudillo
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To: RHOACO
hey, i'm SERIOUSLY thinking of moving down there. . .

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?

42 posted on 09/03/2002 8:20:39 AM PDT by bandlength
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To: Stavka2
I cut and pasted your article. Forwarded to a friend that is quite interested. Must admit, it is the longest post I have ever seen on freeper! -grin-
43 posted on 09/03/2002 10:38:57 AM PDT by American in Israel
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To: Stavka2
Islam is a sick religion for primitive people who don't wish to advance.
44 posted on 09/03/2002 11:02:34 AM PDT by FITZ
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To: TonyRo76
Yes, and they won't admit any new employees into the state department who don't share the "hate America first" ideology.

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.

45 posted on 09/03/2002 11:48:24 AM PDT by NoControllingLegalAuthority
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To: RHOACO
Bump for later
46 posted on 09/03/2002 12:00:43 PM PDT by multitaskmom
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To: RHOACO
This post makes it abundantly CLEAR we need to return to our Libertarian roots.

Thanks
48 posted on 09/03/2002 5:49:52 PM PDT by HarryArmpitch
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To: All
I helped my daughter write this for school, but she's afraid to turn it in, cause it's not PC enough. But it gets to the point of this thread in a nutshell, so to speak.

Terrible

Echo

Reverberating

Ruination

Obedience over

Reason

Islam

Spiteful

Tenet

49 posted on 09/03/2002 6:50:03 PM PDT by multitaskmom
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To: dennisw
But seems disgusting for the American taxpayer to have to underwrite. The 10 Commandments can’t be displayed on public property, kids can’t 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.

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.

50 posted on 09/04/2002 2:35:12 AM PDT by lavaroise
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To: Credo
Isn't the phrase "German justice" an oxymoron anyway?
51 posted on 09/04/2002 3:38:56 AM PDT by Sister Rose
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To: Lion's Cub
bump
52 posted on 09/04/2002 11:13:49 AM PDT by timestax
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To: lavaroise
bump
53 posted on 09/04/2002 11:17:01 AM PDT by timestax
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To: Stavka2
It's us or them, eventually. Nuke Mecca!
54 posted on 09/04/2002 7:52:48 PM PDT by FormerLib
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To: dennisw
thanks for the ping
55 posted on 09/04/2002 10:50:29 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: dalebert
Amazing! WE taxpayers get skinned to pay for this nonsense!
56 posted on 09/05/2002 4:49:58 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: RHOACO
bump
57 posted on 09/05/2002 11:31:34 AM PDT by timestax
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To: timestax
If the Saudis do not allow us to send priests to their country to convert them to Christianity, then are we stupid to pay for them to screw us? Who is the super-power here?
58 posted on 09/05/2002 12:12:07 PM PDT by philosofy123
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To: YaYa123
One of the reasons why I posted this under this article is because the threads I posted with these articles were previously pulled from this site. Why? I don't reconnly know...they are the information on what the enemy is thinking and how he is acting. Go to about.com and type in islam and criticism, you'll get more info and such articles.
59 posted on 09/07/2002 4:25:23 AM PDT by Stavka2
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To: Stavka2
Thank you for taking the time to make such a long and detailed post. I saved the thread to my hard drive, just so I could keep your post. Sometimes threads disappear and I didn't want to lose your informative post.

60 posted on 09/07/2002 4:55:58 AM PDT by ET(end tyranny)
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