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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


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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.



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: justshe
Am I missing something? Is there anything new in this article? Or is this just a replay of other Gaffney threads?

I call it a re-hash, with the allegation about Norquist being responsible for introducing Al-Arian to Candidate Bush during the 2000 campaign thrown in at the end--without any evidence to back up that claim

21 posted on 02/26/2003 3:49:29 PM PST by cyncooper (God Be With President Bush)
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To: Sabertooth
So....your answer is NO? There is no new information in the text of the article posted, but that something new MIGHT come up in the course of the thread? Or someone new, who has not been exposed to this information before, might read this thread?

I am sincere with my question, because in my reading of the article posted I couldn't see anything new...and I wanted to verify my perception. Thanks.
22 posted on 02/26/2003 3:50:27 PM PST by justshe (FREE MIGUEL !)
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To: Sabertooth
Saber, I truly do see your point about some articles, even though on the same subject, deserving their own threads. This is not one of them. A lot of these could be tacked on to existing threads. If something with new, substantiated, information comes along, then I would agree that highlighting it by giving it its own thread is warranted.

Just my thoughts...
23 posted on 02/26/2003 3:52:49 PM PST by cyncooper (God Be With President Bush)
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To: Fred Mertz
What is the point of all this anyway?

I keep seeing this stuff posted by TLBSHOW, Sabretooth and now yourself.

Dubya is a "Big Tent" Republican. It's no secret to anyone.

Is there something else going on here that I am missing? What's the point of all this exactly?

24 posted on 02/26/2003 4:00:49 PM PST by Jhoffa_ (Jhoffa_X)
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To: Sabretooth; TLBSHOW
Same question.

Is there something I am missing here about all this Muslim business?

25 posted on 02/26/2003 4:02:44 PM PST by Jhoffa_ (Jhoffa_X)
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To: Sabertooth
bttt
26 posted on 02/26/2003 4:59:47 PM PST by TLBSHOW (God Speed as Angels trending upward dare to fly Tribute to the Risk Takers)
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To: Jhoffa_; bvw; aristeides; Joe Hadenuf; angkor; LurkerNoMore!; TLBSHOW
Is there something else going on here that I am missing? What's the point of all this exactly?

I'll answer your questions with a question: Is Islam a religion of peace?

27 posted on 02/26/2003 7:20:50 PM PST by Fred Mertz (Bush hasn't said this recently, as far as I've heard)
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To: Fred Mertz

Frankly, I don't care..

What's your point? I might even agree if you will just tell me what it is exactly you guy's are trying to say with all this.

28 posted on 02/26/2003 7:23:29 PM PST by Jhoffa_ (Jhoffa_X)
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To: justshe
I thought there wasn't supposed to be any more of this stuff posted...did I misunderstand something? Is it just that someone else is doing the dirty work now, or what?
29 posted on 02/26/2003 7:27:58 PM PST by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet ( "It was total manipulation. He was trying to confuse me, and it worked." - Nigel Tufnel)
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
                       ping!



30 posted on 02/26/2003 7:35:45 PM PST by Sabertooth
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To: Fred Mertz
Thank you for posting this, Fred. I havn't seen this exact same information before on several other threads... I especially love the unsubstantiated allegations tacked on to the end...

Much obliged!
31 posted on 02/26/2003 7:58:03 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks (There's no mushroom cloud with rock ’n roll. No skin things happening years later, at least I hope.)
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To: Sabertooth
Linking me to another one, eh? So I guess your point is that you guys can do anything you want around here, regardless of the fact that there was a reprimand about this stuff...or what? Not sure I understand what you're suggesting.
32 posted on 02/26/2003 8:08:05 PM PST by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet ( "It was total manipulation. He was trying to confuse me, and it worked." - Nigel Tufnel)
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To: Sabertooth; Fred Mertz
Ping!
33 posted on 02/26/2003 8:10:15 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks (There's no mushroom cloud with rock ’n roll. No skin things happening years later, at least I hope.)
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To: Chad Fairbanks
Thank you for posting this, Fred.

It is truly my pleasure....I need to work on my html skill a bit more, but it will come with practice.

34 posted on 02/26/2003 8:14:44 PM PST by Fred Mertz (up yours too)
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To: Chad Fairbanks
Oh, I forgot to add, thanks for the bump.
35 posted on 02/26/2003 8:15:51 PM PST by Fred Mertz
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To: Fred Mertz
Grocer Norquist is a Wahhabist traitor who should be deported to Riyadh. He makes me sick. Religion of Piss.
36 posted on 02/26/2003 8:16:21 PM PST by montag813
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To: Fred Mertz
So, Todd's got you posting this stuff now? Do you guys work in shifts or what?


37 posted on 02/26/2003 8:20:15 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks (There's no mushroom cloud with rock ’n roll. No skin things happening years later, at least I hope.)
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To: montag813
I appreciate your comments, however, there are a few Grocer (I like that) fans on the boards.
38 posted on 02/26/2003 8:20:32 PM PST by Fred Mertz
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To: Fred Mertz
You are most welcome, Fred...


39 posted on 02/26/2003 8:23:32 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks (There's no mushroom cloud with rock ’n roll. No skin things happening years later, at least I hope.)
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To: Fred Mertz
islam is a bloody cult and democrats with the help of Grover are doing


40 posted on 02/26/2003 8:25:49 PM PST by TLBSHOW (God Speed as Angels trending upward dare to fly Tribute to the Risk Takers)
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