Islamist 'enabler' threatens 'grave harm to Bush presidency,' Gaffney warns

Center for Security Policy ^ | 26 February 2003 | Frank Gaffney

[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.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Ever the second banana Fred?

[Luis Gonzalez]

"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?"

There seems to be a concerted effort in here to make damned sure that very message, real or not, gets out.

[Fred Mertz]

Thanks for the bump.

[Luis Gonzalez]

I just call it marriage.

[Chad Fairbanks]

So, shoud we just tar and feather Grover, or should we form a lynch mob????

[Fred Mertz]

We should continue to out Grover until he admits the errors of his ways. He hasn't done this yet, has he?

[Chad Fairbanks]

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

So, define 'True Conservative'...

[Deb]

Maybe just make him give back all the money he's been paid to lobby for the religion of peas and make him promise to stay in the tax arena.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Those guys on the left and right look familiar.

[justshe]

This is just a web site........sheesh!

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Words to live by, no?

[Fred Mertz]

I'm for Grover sticking to the tax arena.

But he should come clean for the errors he's made. He may be a bright, influential guy, but I don't think anyone will touch him with a ten foot pole for a while.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Maybe just make him give back all the money he's been paid to lobby for the religion of peas and make him promise to stay in the tax arena.

I could think of worse things to be a lobbiest for...

[Chad Fairbanks]

We should continue to out Grover until he admits the errors of his ways. He hasn't done this yet, has he?

So, ya wanna tell us all EXACTLY what his error is???

[Chad Fairbanks]

Well, ya gonna answer? :0)

[Fred Mertz]

Islamist enabler, Islamist dupe....money grubber for WH influence.

Pick your own description of his major league screwups.

[Chad Fairbanks]

If he's doing it on purpose, how is it an 'Error'?

[justshe]

Honestly, as far as I've been able to figure out, they can only tell you what they THINK his errors are..... because there has been no hard proof yet. That is not to say he may not be quilty...but so far it is only suppositions and innuendos. He LOOKS guilty....so he must be guilty.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

So, define 'True Conservative'...

Okay, I'll take a shot.

True Conservative: a never-elected-to-anything-in-his-life, washed up, bitter man who loves to hear himself talk.

[TLBSHOW]

It is simple: get Grover Norquist out of the Presidents ear.........AND YES LOOK INTO HIM.......

along with AMC and CAIR they are terrorist helpers and

Franks Charges Grover Norquist with this title

Islamist 'enabler' threatens 'grave harm to Bush presidency,' Gaffney warns

and the charges are..........

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.'

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Pretty heavy charges don't you think? How came Grover isn't suing Frank you have to ask yourself don't you.

[Fred Mertz]

Quit talking about Luis without flagging him. That's as low as they go.