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.

[TLBSHOW]

We went over that did we not right here, but that is a good thread with more information about Grover but you know that.
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;;That would be a serious charge but as you know that isn't what the charge is and not one that I made, have you read any of Franks web site and what is being said?

You surly don't think it is good for The President to be seen with the likes of Sami who is charged as a terrorist do you? Or that people like Sami would be given access do you? Or do you? I am having a hard time with your posts.


206 posted on 02/24/2003 0:07 AM EST by TLBSHOW

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Frankly, I don't think we're talking about someone who is "dense". I think we're talking about a very dishonest, disingenuous individual who is trying to irritate people until they've had enough - for what purpose, I have yet to determine.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Now, see? YOU are able to discuss this rationally... enough to actually make me consider looking at it further... Jael, on the other hand, is th emaster of "When did you stop beating your wife" arguments...

[Jael]

If it was a religious war we would be better off in a sense, because God has promised to bless those who bless Israel and curse those who harm her. But that is not the war for now. God will destroy Islam in his own time. It is foretold in the Bible.

Obadiah 1:18  And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it.

[TLBSHOW]

President Bush is advancing a liberal agenda.

That was Rush limbaugh that said that and he is no newbie!

WHY RUSH IS DISGRUNTLED

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/682899/posts?page=

[Jael]

Why would you even say such a thing? It's very Clintonish of you to act that way.

[justshe]

You surly don't think it is good for The President to be seen with the likes of Sami who is charged as a terrorist do you?

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One picture while he was campaigning at a strawberry festival in 2000 is your idea of HARD proof?

May the Saints preserve us!

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Yeah yeah yeah. I know. I'm rubber, you're glue, all that...you're starting to bore the hell out of me.

[Sabertooth]

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.

You know what I don't understand? Why you're looking for proof of statements you know to be hyperbole.

There are serious charges to be looked at, with a fair amount of documentation. Interested? Here.

[spodefly]

Utter nonsense. Arab nationalism is at war with us, not Islam.

Please explain 'Arab nationalism' within the context of the Bali bombing, beheadings in Indonesia, the attack of the parliament in India, and the killings of Christians in Africa.

Thank you.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Why would you even say such a thing? It's very Clintonish of you to act that way.

once again, when you have no argument, straight to the name-calling... No wonder no one respects you...

[Texasforever]

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.

To what end? So he posted a multitude of articles, along with you, all saying the same damned things. People read the first one, commented on it and debated it then made up their minds. The question has to be asked.....why not leave it at that and be satisfied? Was the reaction to posts 1-15 not enough to fully discuss the issue or was it that they didn’t elicit the reaction you and TLB thought was so important? Tough break guys but all you and TLB have shown is an obsessive need to get others to recognize your special "insight". It smacks of agenda or childishness.

[TLBSHOW]

Did you know who gave out that picture to AP? It was Sami!

more information from a Radio Freerepublic show guest..

The Islamic Supreme Council of America presents

Islamic Extremism: A Viable Threat to U.S. National Security

http://www.islamicsupremecouncil.org/extremism/unveiling_controversy.htm

[Jael]

Dear Chad,
I got a freepmail about you tonight (much earlier) and what you would probably try and do. My, my. My friend was indeed a prophet.

When you say things to me that you know I didn't say, and try and frame a question "as if" I had said something offensive, I will ask it back of you. Because I know what I have said. And I know what I believe. So it can only be that your posts are meant to disrupt a thread, or cast aspersions upon another poster just for petty small minded reasons.

Do be a dear and scuttle away. I've got things to do and people to speak with before the night opens into the dawn.

[Texasforever]

If it was a religious war we would be better off in a sense, because God has promised to bless those who bless Israel and curse those who harm her.

You should be fitted for a Burkah then because you sound just as fanatical as any Mullah in the Middle East.

[justshe]

Ummmmm......the reason I'm looking at them is because TLB posted them. I don't have a 'hyperbole' meter hooked up to my computer. When a poster makes a statement, it is up to the poster to explain it if someone questions it.

Heck...I'm still waiting for an explanation from Todd for his comment that Bush is a commie liberal rat.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Yeah, I know who sent you that freepmail... but re-read yur post, the one I am now responding to, and look at it in relation to the very things you do on every thread, then tell me you are not projecting k????

Ta-ta!

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

It's a little game. She's done it several times right here on this thread. As soon as you make an observation about her, she turns around and makes the same observation about you, but with no basis.

In all my time on FR, and of all those with whom I've butted heads (and there have been a lot - LOL) I have never seen anyone who tried to frustrate others with these kind of manipulative, dishonest tactics. Most Freepers are sincere, at least. This is different.

[katnip]

Careful there Chad, any minute now you're going to be a Homosexual anti-semite. (I loved your tag, why'd you change it).

[Sabertooth]

FYI, the link at #289 gopes to a post that documents some, though not all, of the items I described to you at #226, on this thread.

If you have further questions on any of it, let me know.