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Obama gets list of top Muslim Americans - in a bid to get more Muslims in the administration
dinahlord.typepad.com ^ | March 27, 2009 | Dinah Lord

Posted on 03/28/2009 10:33:36 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

From the Denver Post.

In a bid to get more Muslim Americans working in the Obama administration, a book with resumes of 45 of the nation's most qualified — Ivy League grads, Fortune 500 executives and public servants, all carefully vetted — has been submitted to the White House.

The effort, driven by community leaders and others, including U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., was bumped up two weeks because White House officials heard about the venture, said J. Saleh Williams, program coordinator for the Congressional Muslim Staffers Association, who sifted through more than 300 names.

"It was mostly under the radar," Williams said. "We thought it would put (the president) in a precarious position. We didn't know how closely he wanted to appear to be working with the Muslim American community."


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: muslims; obama
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1 posted on 03/28/2009 10:33:36 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

And so it continues. Didn’t Biden say something about being tested in June? That must be the DEADline. Another Oklahoma City or 9/11 or Anthrax being played out by our own government.

On the other hand, at least we can all be conforted in knowing these Muslims have been vetted.


2 posted on 03/28/2009 10:39:04 AM PDT by bgill
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To: Free ThinkerNY

They will be better vetted than the President anyway.


3 posted on 03/28/2009 10:40:19 AM PDT by SolidWood (Palin: "We do not want to becomes slaves of Washington.")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I’ve said it before and say it again...this president, like all muslims, butt ends up to the West 5 times a day. Like father, like son.


4 posted on 03/28/2009 10:41:08 AM PDT by tillacum
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To: All

Are you happy enough democratic left?

You voted for him, you burnt Sarah at the stake in order to support him, you put America into hock for ten years, satisfied you still made the right decision?


5 posted on 03/28/2009 10:41:13 AM PDT by Eye of Unk ("If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." T. Paine)
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To: bgill

Yea vetted, like all the other Islamist groups our govt has embraced. Everything that we are doing was tried in the UK and it does not work. Putting Muslims into power will backfire on us.


6 posted on 03/28/2009 10:41:19 AM PDT by Islaminaction
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To: Free ThinkerNY

How fast can America be destroyed? Our seditious president is determined to do it faster than any of us thought possible.


7 posted on 03/28/2009 10:43:04 AM PDT by pallis
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To: bgill

“It was mostly under the radar,” Williams said.

Of course, wouldn’t want Americans to really know what is going on in their government, now would we?


8 posted on 03/28/2009 10:44:14 AM PDT by Mister Muggles
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Everyday, without fail, this pathetic excuse for a human being continues his quest to blow up America. He takes a dump on everything, anyone and anything decent. “I won” is the only truthful thing I’ve heard him say.


9 posted on 03/28/2009 10:44:31 AM PDT by albie
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I dream of the day when I will read a story that begins, “In a bid to get the most talented, hard working, and knowledgable Americans into the administration, the President and his team...”

There is a fundamental flaw in the integrity of anyone who pursues any other type of public servants.


10 posted on 03/28/2009 10:45:20 AM PDT by iacovatx (If you must lie to recruit to your cause, you are fighting for the wrong side.)
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11 posted on 03/28/2009 10:46:23 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY ((((Truth to a Liberal, is like a crucifix to a vampire))))
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“Congressional Muslim Staffers Association”

...right down the hall from the Congressional White Staffers, Christian Staffers and Jewish Staffers Associations no doubt.


12 posted on 03/28/2009 10:47:03 AM PDT by albie
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Hells Bells, we are Starving for MAJORITY REPRESENTATION not the Islamic Minority


13 posted on 03/28/2009 10:47:19 AM PDT by 4Speed
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I wonder if Grover Norquist is on the list. You know, the guy who ‘brought home the muslim vote for Bush’ and infiltrated his muslim goons in the Bush administration. One being his wife, who was appointed head of the corrupt USAID organization. We have to root out the traitors in the republican party before we can even think about doing it to the democrats.

http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york031903.asp

[snip] In February, a long-simmering and mostly behind-the-scenes feud between two prominent conservatives, tax-reform advocate Grover Norquist and national-security expert Frank Gaffney, burst into the open. At issue was the conduct of Norquist’s energetic campaign to bring Muslims into the Republican party. While Norquist argues that Muslim political participation will be a key part of the GOP’s electoral strategy in coming years, Gaffney charges that aggressive outreach efforts to Muslim leaders have brought the party, and in particular the Bush White House, dangerously close to organizations that have in the past endorsed or, at the least, declined to condemn international terrorism. Among them are the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Muslim Public Affairs Council, the Islamic Society of North America, the American Muslim Council, and others whose representatives have been invited to meetings in the White House and with officials across the Bush administration.

Gaffney’s remarks enraged Norquist, who responded in an open letter to conservative activists. “There is no place in the conservative movement for racial prejudice, religious bigotry or ethnic hatred,” Norquist wrote. “We have come too far in the last 30 years in our efforts to broaden our coalition to allow anyone to smear an entire group of people. . . . The conservative movement cannot be associated with racism or bigotry.”

http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2003/02/politically_correct_terrorists.asp

[snip]Norquist, who succeeded in getting candidate Bush to support the banning of
secret evidence from criminal trials (a position Bush abandoned after
September 11), was given an award for his efforts in April 2001 by an
organization called the National Coalition to Protect Political Freedoms -
or NCPPF. The president of this organization is Arian. Among the coalition
members are front organizations for Islamic Jihad, Hizbullah, Hamas, the
IRA, the Peruvian Shining Path and the Basque separatists.

Just one week before Arian’s arrest, Norquist launched a defamatory attack
against fellow Washington Republican Frank Gaffney, a former Reagan
administration official who now heads the Center for Security Policy, a
Washington- based neoconservative think tank. In an open letter to Gaffney,
Norquist attacked him for raising questions about a current and a former
White House official for having invited heads of radical Islamic
organizations with ties to terror groups to the White House.

Both men, Suhail Khan and Ali Tulbah are the sons of radical Islamic operatives on the
West Coast and were hired by the Bush administration to oversee outreach to
the Muslim community. Khan was removed from his position after it was
exposed that his father hosted an al-Qaida leader during two separate trips
to the US.


14 posted on 03/28/2009 10:53:45 AM PDT by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925; Foreigners 2008)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Resumes of 45 of the nation’s most qualified,at what?


15 posted on 03/28/2009 11:03:47 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Free ThinkerNY

LOL


16 posted on 03/28/2009 11:05:08 AM PDT by tillacum
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To: Vaduz

Subversion.


17 posted on 03/28/2009 11:06:01 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY ((((Truth to a Liberal, is like a crucifix to a vampire))))
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Closes Gitmo, sets terrorists loose in the U.S
Sends over 20 mil to Gaza terrorists and opens door for their migration to the U.S
Planning to introduce more Muslims into government

My GOD! How can we let this happen?


18 posted on 03/28/2009 11:14:40 AM PDT by patriot08
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To: patriot08

Because there are no Republicans who will stand up to Nobama. I just don’t get what they are afraid of. We won’t recognize America in 10 years.


19 posted on 03/28/2009 11:40:18 AM PDT by nobama08
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To: Eye of Unk

I was skimming the DUmp this morning, and they had a thread where many posters expressed how happy they are with Obama.


20 posted on 03/28/2009 12:03:43 PM PDT by Pinkbell
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