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.

[Fred Mertz]

So, are you trying to say that you're a Grover Norquist kind of a person?

[TLBSHOW]

I did tell the story on Saturday night....on one of these threads!

[Poohbah]

No, I'm an anti-Clymer kind of person--nothing personal against you, it's just my policy.

[TLBSHOW]

LIBERALS ARE up to their old tricks again. Twenty years of treason hasn't slowed them down.

Earlier prescient advice from the anti-American crowd has included: dismantling government intelligence agencies "brick by brick"; toppling the Shah of Iran and giving Islamic fundamentalism its first real foothold in the Mideast; turning the U.S. armed forces into a feminist consciousness-raising session; demanding continued dependence on Arab oil in order to preserve mud flats in Alaska; indignantly opposing a missile defense shield; promoting endless due process rights for aliens who are illegal, diseased or criminal; disarming the public; and purging the nation of insidious references to God.

Most people would be embarrassed at a track record like that, especially after Sept. 11. But instead of hanging their heads in shame, liberals have boldly returned to their typical hysteria and defeatism.

http://www.anncoulter.org/columns/2001/101801.htm

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Well, I tried.

So did I. I asked you a simple question. What do you think "enough of this crap" means, if it doesn't mean "don't do it anymore"?

Don't answer. I don't care. I know what it means, even if you guys don't.

[Fred Mertz]

What do you think "enough of this crap" means, if it doesn't mean "don't do it anymore"?

If you don't like it, don't bump it, Fräu Göbels. Free exchange of opinions is often welcome on FR.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Okay. I'll ask you. What part of "enough of this crap" don't you understand?

[Jael]

Yes, I am sure you did.

[Fred Mertz]

If you're trying to get this article thrown into the Smokey Backroom, you're failing. Good night.

[Luis Gonzalez]

There is a point to this, and it's quite apparent to anyone with any sort of sense.

Those people posting these articles over, and over, have an agenda in mind.

What could that agenda be?

It's quite clear when you realize that they concentrate their efforts on allegations and innuendo meant to destabilize the readers, and maybe even chip away at the more marginal supporters of the current administration.

These posters, donning the trappings of ultra patriots over their true persona in order to hide their real intentions, claim to be “concerned” for the well being of the president and the nation.

Bunk.

Their agenda is revealed by the fact that their every post is an attempt at creating negativism, and they point out what few issues have yet to be addressed or resolved by the administration, in order to cast shadows over its wealth of accomplishments. Accomplishments they never, ever acknowledge.

You would ask yourself what true conservative would violate Reagan’s 11th. Commandment?

You ask yourself why anyone seeking to advance the conservative agenda would constantly undermine the administration?

You ask yourself why they do not realize that these sorts of attacks may have the long-range effect of harming the continued forward movement of the GOP platform, and the demoralization of the Democrats?

Then you come to the realization that in asking the questions, you have successfully answered them.

[Jael]

Thanks for the great reminder of a great lady. May her memory live on.

[Jhoffa_]

I am a skeptic also..

But look <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/852179/posts?q=1&&page=131#131'>HERE</A> <P> There's something to this, Norquist is shilling for a guy who admits funding PA terror through the Holy Land Foundation even after the Government shut it down. <P> Something isn't right with all of this.

[Jhoffa_]

HERE, rather..

[Luis Gonzalez]

Talking to yourself?

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

I'm not trying to get it thrown in the SB, Fred. I don't care where it is. I'm just trying to figure out how you guys justify thumbing your noses at Jim.

[Jhoffa_]

Check out the link in #73 first..

It's really odd the people this Norquist surrounds himself with and lobbies for.

[Jael]

the continued forward movement of the GOP platform

Luis, are you at all concerned that some of the main supporters of the GOP will move away from the GOP if they find out that while the military is being sent to die, advisors to the adminstration (like Grover) are bring in pro terrorist Muslims?

I am.

True conservatives need to be working to bring the party back to the right so the biggest parts of the party don't bolt.

[Jhoffa_]

Talking to yourself?

I prefer to think of it as: "striving for excellence in conversation.."

[Jael]

Thanks for the post!

[Fred Mertz]

You would ask yourself what true conservative would violate Reagan’s 11th. Commandment?

Get your head out of the clouds Luis. This is just a web site........sheesh! You'd think we're on international TV or sumpin'.

p.s. Does my hair look okay to you? LOL