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.

[Chad Fairbanks]

I don't lump you in the 'like you' category - she is in a class all by herself, Saber... :0)

[Jael]

No, or course not! But it was known what their sentimenst were towards terrorism. They fully supported it.
Whoever is advising our President in these matters needs a really close look see.

Why did Grover take money from Hamas????

[Texasforever]

Sounds more like Pat is obeying his handlers.

NO, what Pat is saying, and I agree with, is that the most dangerous thing that can happen is for GW to cast this war in a religious context. Pat is 100% dead on right! Bush is approaching this war as a dirty job that he has been burdened with do to his election as President and CIC. If he approached it in any other way he would be un-fit for the job he is in. He is NOT a Crusader, he is the Commander In Chief of the United States of America and he is defending this nation. It is a TERRIBLE responsibility that he has taken. War is not sport or a way to assert religious beliefs. We have an enemy that uses terrorism and war to please their "God” and I don't want to be the flip side of that coin. This is NOT a religious war and I am damn glad it is not because it is really dangerous to count on God being on our side.

[Cultural Jihad]

Don't be silly. No one's said that.

Thank you!

[Jael]

Is the comment directed at you? No? Then ask Chad why he asked the question of me.

[justshe]

To: Bob J; Sabertooth

Bob J

"What would you say if its not really about a White House visit years ago its about now and since the charge is that it is still going on with Grover providing the White House with terrorist muslims..."

HERE

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Are you accusing this WH of harboring terrorists, because that is a serious charge, and one I'm sure you do not make lightly. So I'm sure you have some proof? HARD proof.

[Jael]

Since you are posting to Chad, I will assume you think he is a Democrat. He seems a little liberalish, all things considered, so maybe he id, I don't know.

But how helpless your argument must be if that is the only thing you can do or say.

ROTFL.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

I don't remember what was done to Amelia; I probably didn't see it. If you feel like filling me in, I'd appreciate it.

I know I don't appreciate being lied about, or seeing other people lied about. We can do without that around here. It's difficult enough getting along without that kind of crap.

[Texasforever]

No, or course not! But it was known what their sentimenst were towards terrorism. They fully supported it.

Then maybe you should be a bit more careful and accurate in making your points. Huh?

[Cultural Jihad]

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Yet, in his sense that we must avoid war with militant Islam, lest we find ourselves at war with all Islam, President Bush is surely right.

In the last century, America was threatened by a global communist revolution. Avoiding all-out war, we outlasted it. And we can outlast this Islamist revolution. What we must avoid is a war of faiths, a war of civilizations between Islam and America. And those who propagandize for such a war are the unwitting or willful collaborators of Osama bin Laden.
-Pat Buchanan, December 2, 2002

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Source: http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29838

[TLBSHOW]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/657740/posts

The fact is the whole matter concerns Clinton and Hillary and now Grover......

The Clinton administration shut down a 1995 investigation of Islamic charities, concerned that a public probe would expose Saudi Arabia's suspected ties to a global money-laundering operation that raised millions for anti-Israel terrorists, federal officials told The Washington Times.

Law enforcement authorities and others close to the aborted investigation said the State Department pressed federal officials to pull agents off the previously undisclosed probe after the charities were targeted in the diversion of cash to groups that fund terrorism.

Former federal prosecutor John J. Loftus said four interrelated Islamic foundations, institutes and charities in Virginia with more than a billion dollars in assets donated by or through the Saudi Arabian government were allowed to continue under "a veil of secrecy."

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Since you are posting to Chad, I will assume you think he is a Democrat.

No. I know Chad. And I know he's not a Democrat. Not even close.

You, I'm not so sure about.

[justshe]

Thank you. I missed that post..and I couldn't have said it better myself.

[Chad Fairbanks]

You can't REALLY be this dense, can you? Can you? My god...

[Jael]

Do you mean to say that these events do not alarm you?
THere is no concern on your part regarding an American exposing our President to Terrorists?

I should hope you would be alarmed. And totally support your President and pray for him.

[Jael]

Why would the Dem's need to be in office if they have the power to get a liberal agenda pushed through anyway.

Rules of war.... a True Conservative ALWAYS knows what's really happening.

[Sabertooth]

I don't lump you in the 'like you' category - she is in a class all by herself, Saber... :0)

Well, let me ask... is lumping productive, in any case?

Here's what I've observed. An unpopular poster, with whom I often disagree both in style and substance, nailed a bullseye this time. Grover Norquist's links to radical Islam didn't come out of the blue, there have been warning signs for years. But we, all of us, dropped the ball, and when the feud between Gaffney and Norquist hit the fan, this poster in question got it right first.

The reason I don't like lumping is because you never really know whom you might find on your side of the fence on the next issue of the day. In this case, I think a great many on this forum have let their feelings for one poster color their understanding of this story.

[Chad Fairbanks]

See, what this Jael person does (I'm convinced that she is not a 'long-time lurker', but a retread... but I digress) is bait, then twist any words, using pretzel logic, to make people look bad... she's VERY good at twisting words around, but luckily few here are stupid enough to believe it, and usually end up calling her on it...

[Texasforever]

Rules of war.... a True Conservative ALWAYS knows what's really happening.

You are a hoot.

[Cultural Jihad]

For the record a newbie named Jael is saying that President Bush is advancing a liberal agenda.