Islamist 'enabler' threatens 'grave harm to Bush presidency,' Gaffney warns

Center for Security Policy ^ | 26 February 2003 | Frank Gaffney

[Fred Mertz]

Headline Story |

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.

[Sabertooth]

Is that the thread, or the post in question? Stay on topic.

There are posting guidelines against carrying vendettas from thread to thread.

[Cultural Jihad]

Explain how Jimmy Carter or LBJ weren't presidents.

[Chad Fairbanks]

[Cultural Jihad]

Nonsense. I carry no vendetta, but bring a germane post from the individual in question.

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

Bwahahahahahaha.........I'm dying here, Chad.

[Chad Fairbanks]

It certainly shows what I have long suspected to be his agenda...

[hole_n_one]

To:tlbshow
Now please make your point.

Not going anywhere for awhile?........

[Sabertooth]

Explain how Jimmy Carter or LBJ weren't presidents.

The post in question on the locked thread did not say that President Bush was a traitor, nor has anything else you've posted. Your quiver is empty.

[Mo1]

you're a real pal, thank you .. *L*

[Chad Fairbanks]

Is Bush a Republican? If so, that post was applicable to HIM as well...

[Cultural Jihad]

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To: Sabertooth

I think I will have to say this country is being sold out from within and from who is what really saddens me tonight.

23 posted on 02/17/2003 11:27 PM PST by TLBSHOW

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Source: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/backroom/845727/posts?page=23#23

[Sabertooth]

It certainly shows what I have long suspected to be his agenda...

It shows an ill-advised, blowhard post, from a thread not in question, which doesn't support the charge that was made in any event.

[Travis McGee]

Only if you think terrorism is a big joke.

[Jim Robinson]

Yup. That's the way I remember it. Wonder if TLB was joking or being sarcastic or was not thinking right or writing right or what? Or maybe he's not got his mind right? Right?

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

Popcorn........get your popcorn

[Jael]

Lusi, is there something you doubt about this news? Since there are so many people here who are well versed in conservative activism and this problem, you could get some help with any questions you might have.

[TLBSHOW]

By rats like Hillary and Grover and their friends.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Of course it's relevent... Todd is doing his very best to undermine the administration... that is my firm belief, based on everything I've seen him post...

[Jael]

Lynch mob? Tar and feather?

My goodness! Why in the world would you urge those kinds of actions?

[Sabertooth]

Already refeneced here...

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To: Jim Robinson

Todd was claiming that Grover is a terrorist?

Norquist, for reasons yet to be understood, is bringing radical Islamists into the Bush White House. There is a lot of research and info on these threads to that effect. This not a charge that can be dismissed lightly.

As to Todd: from a thread on the 10th of this month about the feud between Gaffney and Norquist:

LINK

Look at my post at #2, and TLBSHOW'S reply at #4. The original article is by Gaffney, and TLBSHOW and I are concurring with Gaffney's low view of Grover Norquist.

The same thing was happening at #23 on the locked thread a week later, when TLBSHOW was replying to another post of mine about Grover Norquist. TLBSHOW'S post at #29 on this same thread is yet another slam at Norquist.

LINK

Anyone taking the post at #23 to be a claim on TLBSHOW'S part that President Bush was or is a traitor is simply mistaken.

That thread was dead for a day before a poster who doesn't like TLBSHOW decided to take the opportunity to instigate a flame war, based on her mischaracterization of his post. I don't really care if he's unpopular, the post was to me, it was always about Norquist, and in all of the times I saw may name referenced in the slams on him, no one asked me what the post meant.

Hopefully, that clears up the matter.

134 posted on 02/26/2003 10:43 PM PST by Sabertooth
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The post you just quoted, the damning "Bush is a traitor" post, was about Grover Norquist.