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Who's with President Bush?
townhall ^ | February 18, 2003 | Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.

Posted on 02/17/2003 9:27:11 PM PST by TLBSHOW

Who's with President Bush?

President Bush has characterized the choice to be made in this war on terror: "Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists." The stark clarity of this binary decision has served the United States well in marshaling a large number of nations in the fight against al Qaeda and a smaller, but still ample, number for the next phase of this war: the liberation of Iraq.

Regrettably, in the months since September 11, 2001, people who have made no secret of their sympathy for terrorists, provided them financial support, excused their murderous attacks and/or sought to impede the prosecution of the war against them have repeatedly been put in the company of the President. In other words, individuals and organizations who appear to be "with the terrorists" have time and again been allowed to be with the President in the White House and elsewhere.

For example: o On September 20, 2001 -- just nine days after the deadly attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon -- Shaykh Hamza Yusuf was the Muslim representative in a small ecumenical gathering held in the Oval Office.

At the same time, FBI agents were trying to interview him at his house in California since he had declared two days before the attack: "This country is facing a terrible fate....This country stands condemned. It stands condemned like Europe stood condemned because of what it did -- and lest people forget that Europe suffered two world wars after conquering the Muslim lands." His wife told the incredulous agents Yusuf wasn't home, he was with the President. o Six days later, President Bush met in the Roosevelt Room with a Muslim imam by the name of Muzammil H. Siddiqi. Siddiqi is a long-time board member of several organizations in the United States funded by, and closely tied to, Saudi Arabia's radical state religion known as Wahhabism. Two of these groups, including one where Siddiqi still sits on the board, were raided in March 2002 by Federal authorities in pursuit of terrorist financing.

This presidential meeting was all the more puzzling since the imam had shown his true colors by claiming, at a rally the previous October: "America has to learn...If you remain on the side of injustice, the wrath of God will come.

Please, all Americans. Do you remember that? Allah is watching everyone. God is watching everyone. If you continue doing injustice, and tolerate injustice, the wrath of God will come." o On September 17, 2001, President Bush paid a visit to the mosque in Washington. There he was photographed flanked by Nihad Awad, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

CAIR has long been an admirer and public defender of terrorist organizations whose attacks against even innocent women and children it sees as legitimate acts of "liberation." Awad has personally declared, "I am a supporter of the Hamas movement." o Also in the picture with President Bush at the mosque was Khaled Saffuri, currently chairman of an organization called the Islamic Institute, which he co-founded with conservative activist Grover Norquist.

Saffuri previously served as the development director of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, a supporter of the Palestine Liberation Organization when it made no bones about using terrorism for political purposes. He went on to become deputy director of the radical American Muslim Council (AMC), under then-director Abduraman Alamoudi -- a publicly declared supporter of Hamas and Hezbollah, whose statements of solidarity with these groups prompted the Bush 2000 campaign to return his contributions. Under Saffuri's leadership, the Islamic Institute has attacked the Bush Administration's investigations of radical Muslim groups and closures of organizations suspected of funding terrorists.

The Institute has been funded by groups raided in the above-mentioned terrorist financing investigations. It lobbied intensively against portions of the USA Patriot Act. And Saffuri has personally denounced the President's listing of the Holy Land Foundation as a charity that supported terrorist organizations. He has acknowledged sponsoring the children of suicide bombers through the Foundation, even after its closure by the government.

In addition to the President, a number of his senior subordinates -- including Cabinet officers -- have met, in some cases more than once, with members of the aforementioned and other organizations with troubling attitudes towards jihadist terrorists. A particularly bizarre instance was FBI Director Robert Mueller’s keynote address last year to the American Muslim Council.

The AMC has a long record of activities hostile to the Bush Administration’s prosecution of the war on terror. It has even urged Muslims not to cooperate with the FBI! Nonetheless, according to a press release dated last Thursday, Mr. Mueller has invited the AMC’s chairman, Dr. Yahya Mossa Basha, to attend an upcoming meeting with him and “leaders of major Muslim and Arab-American organizations.”

It is very much in the President's interest -- and the Nation's -- that moderate, law-abiding, peace-loving and patriotic American Muslims be embraced and empowered by the Bush Administration and all those who support it in waging a war on terror, not on Islam.

To do so, however, the Administration must not allow those who are “with” its enemies in that struggle to continue being with the President and his team.


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To: TLBSHOW
You are a smear artist too!


Really..... kinda like a tard.. is that it? You are the RATTY RAT King of smear...... But good....

WHO....
1,321 posted on 02/19/2003 9:59:13 PM PST by deport (WHO.......)
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To: Jael
"Trying to get the thread pulled?"

No, dear heart, I haven't hit the abuse button, or pinged the admin mod once. Can you say as much? I didn't think so.

Oh and by the way......"God bless!"

1,322 posted on 02/19/2003 10:00:00 PM PST by A Citizen Reporter
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To: Howlin
You have got serious problems. Now wonder this thread got moved. Guess the stories I have heard about you ARE true.
1,323 posted on 02/19/2003 10:00:26 PM PST by Jael (Thy Word is Truth!)
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To: Jael
I have no idea who you are; you very well could be Rebeckie.

And, honey, you're the one that's been proven to be the liar on this thread -- don't try to make me an enemy of FR.

I told you before, you mistakenly think this is HIGH SCHOOL; it's not.

1,324 posted on 02/19/2003 10:00:56 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Luis Gonzalez
Unless you are insinuating that I am something other than white.

Lets put it on the table louie, I am full Apache, OK!

1,325 posted on 02/19/2003 10:00:56 PM PST by Joe Hadenuf
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To: Jael
Pathetic.
1,326 posted on 02/19/2003 10:01:15 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Chad Fairbanks
Been doing some google research, and I'm afraid this should come to light:


1,327 posted on 02/19/2003 10:01:41 PM PST by Diddle E. Squat
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To: Fred Mertz
I believe I don't give a rat's butt what you think.
1,328 posted on 02/19/2003 10:02:03 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Joe Hadenuf
Mohawk/Mic Mac here...
1,329 posted on 02/19/2003 10:02:21 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks ("As God as my witness.....I thought Armadillos could fly")
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To: Jael
Face up to it.....your lie hit the fan. Truth is a virtue; lying is a sin.
1,330 posted on 02/19/2003 10:02:31 PM PST by Carolinamom
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To: Jael
That is my opinion about what she said. She also threw in some little remark about the KKK.

That's another lie ...

I'm starting to get the feeling you are really going out of your way to start a fight

Question is .. WHY?

1,331 posted on 02/19/2003 10:02:43 PM PST by Mo1 (DC Chapter .. Patriots Rally for America IV .. on Saturday, March 1st)
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To: Diddle E. Squat
I knew it... She IS a Gopher!
1,332 posted on 02/19/2003 10:03:03 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks ("As God as my witness.....I thought Armadillos could fly")
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To: Jael
At least I am honest enough to warn you. Maybe it will keep you from making a big mistake.

You may not be Beckie .. but I sure get the feeling you've been here before

1,333 posted on 02/19/2003 10:03:58 PM PST by Mo1 (DC Chapter .. Patriots Rally for America IV .. on Saturday, March 1st)
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To: bonfire; Howlin
No. I got suspended for 3 days. I didn't see the mod's order to stop posting about something. Some friend of Howlins was saying I said something about Amber Frey's baby when I never did. (Her name is kim something.)

I didn't see the warning and kept posting. I apologized to the mod and got it straight. And the my post showing that the kim person was lying were allowed to stay.

YAHOO!

That is one reason why I reported HJolwin when she started breaking the rules and lying about me. She's got no self control and will lie when the truth would do her better.

She can't be trusted. I've seen her troll people for hours on end.
1,334 posted on 02/19/2003 10:04:14 PM PST by Jael (Thy Word is Truth!)
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To: Mo1
Because she wants to have the thread pulled!

It's the way she has been since her newest incarnation here.

That way, she starts each day fresh. No one can do a search on her crap the next day.

She gets her jollies from it.
1,335 posted on 02/19/2003 10:04:39 PM PST by katnip
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To: Howlin
You're as stupid as they come. Deal with it.
1,336 posted on 02/19/2003 10:05:04 PM PST by Fred Mertz
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To: Mo1
You may not be Beckie .. but I sure get the feeling you've been here before

It's Deja-Who all over again!

1,337 posted on 02/19/2003 10:05:24 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks ("As God as my witness.....I thought Armadillos could fly")
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To: Jael
I was talking about the Religion threads...specifically the Neverending thread. I thought you got suspended there too.
1,338 posted on 02/19/2003 10:05:32 PM PST by bonfire
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To: Diddle E. Squat
Well........I hate my screenname.

I was a very novice computer user when I first came to FR three years ago (3 yrs. ago tomorrow, as a matter of fact) My brother, Freeper Northpaw, led me here.

I was just going to lurk and see what it was all about. Immediately I read some comments that really angered me and I had to post. That meant I had to register which was a brand new thing to me.

I gave it little thought and decided I was south of my bro and was Northpaw's sister. Pretty dumb, but oh well.

I tried to change it several times but my request went nowhere. Then I decided that it was who I was here and I would live with it.

1,339 posted on 02/19/2003 10:05:48 PM PST by Southflanknorthpawsis
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To: Diddle E. Squat
OMG! The trio of weasels?
1,340 posted on 02/19/2003 10:06:02 PM PST by chnsmok
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