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]

Are doing WHAT? Isn't that a sort of open-ended post? Leaving us in suspense like that????

[Chad Fairbanks]

Oh, wait... I get it now, the democrats and grover are doing Ann Coulter... ok... whatever...

[Fred Mertz]

BTTT

[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.

I wasn't reprimanded, nor have I violated any posting guidelines. IIRC, the thread where the warning occurred was a dupe of another thread that got moved to the backroom due to flame warrior activity.

I'm really not sure why you're bugged by these threads. I posted some thoughts about multiple threads and cross-referenced articles at the link at #18, above.

Also, there has been a lot of reasearch and documentation on these threads. There is new info all the time. If you don't think it's a story that's worth pursuing, you're certainly entitled to your opinion. Why does it bother you that others think differently? Why even read them, let alone post?

[TLBSHOW]

To review recent events, last year, 19 Muslims slaughtered thousands of Americans on U.S. soil. Since then, one Muslim tried to blow up a U.S. commercial jet with a shoe bomb and another Muslim shot up Los Angeles airport. The Religion of Peace has also been active abroad, decapitating an American journalist and blowing up a French tanker. In the last few weeks alone, Muslims bombed a nightclub in Bali and were narrowly prevented from slaughtering hundreds of theater-goers in Moscow.
http://www.anncoulter.org/columns/2002/103002.htm
Inasmuch as the nation is at war with Islamic terrorists, you might think it would be of passing interest that the sniper is a Muslim. But you need a New York Times decoder ring to figure out that GULF WAR VETERAN John Muhammad is a Muslim. The main clue is the Times' repeated insistence that Islam had absolutely nothing to do with the shootings.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Am I missing something?

[Chad Fairbanks]

WHAT??? When did all THAT happen???? Any MORE "breaking News"?????

[Jael]

Bump

[Amelia]

Am I missing something?

I think you have to be wearing those tinfoil glasses to see it.....

[Chad Fairbanks]

Welcome back! I've missed you!

[TLBSHOW]

Do you remember a freeper friend of ours?


Barbara risked having her neck slit to warn the country of a terrorist attack. She was a patriot to the very end


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This Is War

September 12 , 2001

BARBARA OLSON kept her cool. In the hysteria and terror of hijackers herding passengers to the rear of the plane, she retrieved her cell phone and called her husband, Ted, the solicitor general of the United States. She informed him that he had better call the FBI — the plane had been hijacked. According to reports, Barbara was still on the phone with Ted when her plane plunged in a fiery explosion directly into the Pentagon.

Barbara risked having her neck slit to warn the country of a terrorist attack. She was a patriot to the very end

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We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.
http://www.anncoulter.org/columns/2001/091301.htm

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

What part of "Enough of this crap." do you have trouble understanding? Seems to me it means, well...enough of this crap.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Wow... musta missed all THAT too... I need to keep up on the news more often...

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Well, I was thinking the plug had been pulled on all this. I guess they figure if they send in the second-stringers, they can ignore the admonition that accompanied the last batch.

[TLBSHOW]

On threads I don't care about I click away, thats what I do!

[Fred Mertz]

We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

That's one thing I liked about the Bush speech tonight. He explained how German and Japan (evil empires extraordinaire) were brought into the fold, when going in they looked hopelessly evil.

[TLBSHOW]

BUMP

[Poohbah]

Yeah, this wasn't posted by *TLBSHOW*, it was posted by his Amen Corner. So, technically, it's not a violation of JimRob's decree to TLBSHOW. And (Poohbah wags finger) he did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ann Coulter!

[sport]

bump

[Sabertooth]

What part of "Enough of this crap." do you have trouble understanding? Seems to me it means, well...enough of this crap.

Well, I tried.

Regards