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Islamist 'enabler' threatens 'grave harm to Bush presidency,' Gaffney warns
Center for Security Policy ^
| 26 February 2003
| Frank Gaffney
Posted on 02/26/2003 1:50:19 PM PST by Fred Mertz
Islamist 'enabler' threatens 'grave harm to Bush presidency,' Gaffney warns
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Norquist's group took seed money from an avowed supporter of Hezbollah, the terrorist group that killed 241 US Marines in a 1983 Beirut bombing. |
A prominent conservative leader who allegedly has used undeclared foreign money and top political connections to promote terrorist sympathizers is an 'enabler' who threatens 'to do grave harm to the Bush presidency.'
Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney issued the warning in a letter to Grover Norquist, founding chairman of the Islamic Institute, after Norquist publicly accused Gaffney of 'racism and bigotry' and banished him from a weekly strategy group. Norquist's actions came in response to Gaffney's criticism of a White House official who allowed pro-terrorist Muslim groups access to the White House complex on January 16.
'People who afford terrorist-supporters or -apologists and their organizations entree into the White House deserve to be both challenged and criticized,' Gaffney wrote in response. Norquist, an anti-tax activist and Washington networker who often purports to speak in the name of President Bush, told Gaffney in a widely distributed letter that the Center for Security Policy leader was guilty of 'racial prejudice, religous bigotry or ethnic hatred' because the criticized official is a Muslim.
In response, Gaffney and American Conservative Union leader David Keene slammed Norquist for 'employing "Stalinist tactics" against those who disagree with Mr. Norquist's role in brokering access to the Bush White House,' the Washington Times reported on February 7.
Norquist has been criticized for promoting what is called the Wahhabi lobby, a Saudi-funded network designed to dominate and radicalize Islam in America, at the expense of other Muslim groups whose stand against terrorism is unequivocal.
'Why have you gone to such lengths to defend - to say nothing of legitimize and advance the agendas of - terrorist sympathizers and others hostile to everything for which American conservatives stand?' Gaffney asked Norquist in a responding letter. Gaffney listed his concerns: * The Islamic Institute, which Norquist co-founded and houses in his Americans for Tax Reform office, received seed money from an avowed supporter of Hezbollah, the terrorist group that killed 241 US Marines in a 1983 suicide bomb attack. * The Islamic Institute reportedly is 'predominantly funded by foreign governments, shady Saudi sources, and US-based groups raided by the Treasury Department-led Operation Green Quest Task Force for allegedly funding suicide bombers, al Qaeda and other terrorists' activities.' * Norquist led conservative opposition to parts of the Bush administration's anti-terrorism legislation, without disclosing that his Islamic group was dependent on such funds. * Norquist has affiliated himself with the radical National Committee to Protect Political Freedom (NCPPF), from which he received an award shortly before the September 11, 2001 attacks, despite the group's thirty-year public track record of promoting domestic and international terrorism. * Norquist reportedly introduced Sami Al-Arian, whom federal law enforcement officials say is a leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, to then-candidate George W. Bush during the 2000 campaign. Televised videotape shows Al-Arian raising money in the US for terrorists.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: frankgaffney; grovernorquist; hezbollah; islamicinstitute; islamistinfluence; norquist; whitehouse
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To: TLBSHOW
Weren't you told to drop this topic? Maybe you can elaborate on all that, so that I can understand. The last I saw, someone in charge was telling you "Enough of this crap."
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posted on
02/26/2003 9:53:27 PM PST
by
DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
( "It was total manipulation. He was trying to confuse me, and it worked." - Nigel Tufnel)
To: TLBSHOW
Pretty heavy charges don't you think? How came Grover isn't suing Frank you have to ask yourself don't you.Well... So, you think Bush is just gonna listen to Nordquist and take any of his recommendations, without considering the source???? Hello???
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posted on
02/26/2003 9:53:53 PM PST
by
Chad Fairbanks
("Enough of this crap. Todd, you post anymore of it, you can sit out the duration." - Jim Robinson)
To: Fred Mertz
Wow, this is very interestng.
To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet; Joe Hadenuf; bvw; aristeides
Weren't you told to drop this topic? Okay, we'll all go and stick our heads in the sand. I'll be in Mexico next month.
So, if I get your gist, if we don't talk about this minor problem it doesn't exist. Is that it?
To: Fred Mertz
translation: "Oh darn! Quick, I need backup! Ping Da Boyz!!!!"
105
posted on
02/26/2003 10:00:30 PM PST
by
Chad Fairbanks
("When life hands you lemon, break out the tequila and lemon" - Anonymous)
To: Chad Fairbanks; Askel5
I don't need backup. I just want a few regulars to see how the argument isn't addressed.
It's her opinion, but it's wrong.
To: Fred Mertz
This is simple, Fred. Really.
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posted on
02/26/2003 10:04:31 PM PST
by
DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
( "It was total manipulation. He was trying to confuse me, and it worked." - Nigel Tufnel)
To: Fred Mertz; TLBSHOW; Chad Fairbanks
It's her opinion, but it's wrong.What are you talking about? It's not a matter of anyone's "opinion" that TLBSHOW was told to stop posting this "crap". Why don't you address that?
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posted on
02/26/2003 10:07:52 PM PST
by
DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
( "It was total manipulation. He was trying to confuse me, and it worked." - Nigel Tufnel)
To: Fred Mertz
I don't need backup. He said, as he pinged ANOTHER person to the thread...
Ah well, friend, it's pretty simple, really. All these 'alleged' activities... note the use of the word "alledgedly", without any actual hard proof... What this basically means is, you and your friends here are merely posting unproven allegations, which will do nothing but serve to attempt to undermine the current administration when we are on the eve of a potential war...
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posted on
02/26/2003 10:08:00 PM PST
by
Chad Fairbanks
("I like Salt" - Some guy)
To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
Yes it is. GN is wrong and has been used by Islamists, possibly worse. The administration=White House= security must not let this happen again.
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posted on
02/26/2003 10:08:18 PM PST
by
Fred Mertz
(Notice I didn't say Bush?)
To: Chad Fairbanks
Nice tag but if I was you I would go back and connect where this started from, there are peaceful muslims and there are terrorist muslims and helpers and Grover along with many Democrats and some republicans are going to have to decide between the good and the evil and the evil is what the rats and Grover are bringing in.
It started in the winter of 2000. The Muslims had a convention and brought in Grover and Zogby and Elected members of our govt and the terrorist supporter got in the door to our government that weekend.
Radio Free Republic warned about this when Louis had his show. Or if they did not they pointed to their web site with all the information.
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posted on
02/26/2003 10:08:19 PM PST
by
TLBSHOW
(God Speed as Angels trending upward dare to fly Tribute to the Risk Takers)
To: TLBSHOW
So far, all I've seen are a bunch of unproven allegations... posted over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and...
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posted on
02/26/2003 10:10:23 PM PST
by
Chad Fairbanks
("I like Salt" - Some guy)
To: Chad Fairbanks
Thanks for the bump.
To: Fred Mertz
Whatever. You're thumbing your nose at Jim.
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posted on
02/26/2003 10:13:32 PM PST
by
DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
( "It was total manipulation. He was trying to confuse me, and it worked." - Nigel Tufnel)
To: Fred Mertz
Thanks for the bump.No problem. Anytime, Fred... I'm always happy to allow more people to see you in all your 'glory'...
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posted on
02/26/2003 10:13:45 PM PST
by
Chad Fairbanks
("I like Salt" - Some guy)
To: Jim Robinson
Whatever. You're thumbing your nose at Jim. No I'm not.
To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
Mo he's not. He's flipping me the bird.
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posted on
02/26/2003 10:18:36 PM PST
by
Jim Robinson
(And I did preview this post. Any errors are all mine. Whom else can I blame?)
To: Luis Gonzalez
Those people posting these articles over, and over, have an agenda in mind.
Exactly.
To: Fred Mertz
I was po'd at TLB because he was using this series to imply that Bush was a traitor in bed with the terrorists. Sorry, but this is about the silliest thing I've ever seen him post. Well, maybe not the silliest. There's a whole lot of silliness in Todd's many thousands of posts.
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posted on
02/26/2003 10:25:47 PM PST
by
Jim Robinson
(And I did preview this post. Any errors are all mine. Whom else can I blame?)
To: Cultural Jihad
What mind?
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