Posted on 08/23/2010 10:13:28 AM PDT by Reaganite Republican
JUST LOOK at how close the disengenuous 5th-columnists of the Obama Administration are to the "moderate" Imam behind the Ground-Zero mosque... like try paying him with our tax dollars to go on a Middle East tour on behalf of the US!
The imam behind the plan to build a mosque near Ground Zero surfaced yesterday far from the controversy -- in Bahrain, where he's on a taxpayer-funded trip to the Middle East to spread good will.
Appearing in public for the first time in weeks, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, speaking at a mosque near Bahrain's capital of Manama, said he wants to "Americanize" Islam -- but dodged questions about the uproar over his planned mosque and community center.
Rauf spoke against fanaticism, saying, "This issue of extremism is something that has been a national-security issue -- not only for the United States but also for many countries and nations in the Muslim world."
"This is why this particular trip has a great importance because all countries in the Muslim world -- as well as the Western world -- are facing this . . . major security challenge," Rauf told Associated Press Television News in a brief interview.
The cleric also said he was working on a way to "Americanize Islam," but didn't offer any details. No details...
That makes sense, since the dude's looking for $100 million large to help finance the Ground Zero Victory Mosque. No doubt sharia finance networks will be coming up with some of that cash, news of which of course wouldn't go over so well with some of the 9/11 families now speaking out in New York. Indeed, opponents of the mosque might not have the full details on the depth of Imam Rauf's scam, which is more fundamentally implicated into the Obama administration than has been noted by most commentators. See, for example, Sharia Finance Watch: It is highly likely that the financing from this mosque is coming from one of two sources, or perhaps both: foreign sources and the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT). NAIT is reported to hold title to as many as 80% of the mosques and Islamic centers in the U.S. There are three things that are especially disturbing about this:
1. NAIT is at least partially funded by Saudi Arabia (a foreign power with a dismal human rights record and significant portions of its royal family associated with jihad.
2. NAIT is a Muslim Brotherhood organization. This was stipulated to by the defense in the largest terrorism financing trial in U.S. history.
3. In that same terrorism financing trial, the United States v. the Holy Land Foundation, NAIT was named as an unindicted co-conspirator. The prosecution was successful in that case, defendants were convicted on all counts. When NAIT challenged its classification as an unindicted co-conspirator, the Justice department refused to relent and issued a spirited and strong justification.
Foreign financing for this mosque on this site has implications far beyond building a place where Muslims can go pray. There is reason to believe that this site was chosen with some other purpose in mind. Of all the places to build such a mosque, why Ground Zero? It’s not a residential area. There are no large numbers of Muslim residents in the neighborhood.
If foreign powers are behind its financing, then the implications immediately become much more profound and sinister. Nevertheless, Imam Rauf remains tight-lipped on the subject of financing sources, media such as The Economist exhibit no intellectual curiosity on the subject and apologists such as New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg refuse to even consider that it might be a bad idea if the Muslim Brotherhood or a foreign Salafi power is behind the project...
I can't believe I've lived to see this... sickening
OK, who does this guy know?
Who is pushing all this. It’s got to be more than Obama.
“Americanize Islam” = make Islam acceptable and mainstream.
No thanks.
The Koran or Quron is more political than religious, so it’s anything but Holy, as Obama calls it.
This is kind of old news. We’ve known about this for about a week.
The State Dept. is funding the trip. And, who is the SoS?? The same former First Lady who kissed Yasser Arafathead’s wife!!
And, the leftists STILL think she is presidential material.
Tch, tch, tch . . . . some people will NEVER get it!!
Hardly “breaking.” There has been stuff posted here on the subject for more than a week, including the amount of money he got.
What I do have trouble with is the US government paying ANYONE to take a goodwill tour. That's what ambassadors are for. We have simply got to stop doing stuff like this, and foreign aid, and wars to spread US values abroad. How to do that? Clean up our own act, in the US.
...Breaking would be transcripts of the hours of ranting audio tapes by brother Rauf and just unearthed ....breaking hard..........crickets
the cabal list talking point is out.
They are using the term “bridge builder” as the meme across the networks. (including FNC)
remember you have a congress FUNDING all this.
Obama can set all the programs he wants but without Reid and Pelosi giving him OUR MONEY, he is unfinanced.
He’s made trips of this kind before. He must have his spiel mastered at this point.
From the article linked-
“This is Rauf’s fourth U.S.-sponsored trip to the region, according to the State Department. He traveled twice to the Mideast in 2007 during the administration of President George W. Bush and once earlier this year.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38789374/ns/us_news-life/
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