Posted on 08/08/2010 9:48:47 AM PDT by Ooh-Ah
After Malaysia, a swing through the Middle East.
While debate rages over plans for an Islamic center in Lower Manhattan, the imam behind this project, Feisal Abdul Rauf, is not available to answer questions in New York. Since locating the absent Rauf last week in Malaysia, I have now discovered that he's about to embark on a nearly month-long swing through the Middle East, with plans to visit Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain and Qatar.
Not that I learned this from Rauf, whose Malaysian office staff told me by phone on Tuesday that "All media requests have to go through his office in New York." Nor did his New York colleagues simply volunteer information about his imminent trip to the Middle East. It took a series of phone calls and questions to eke it out of them, starting with a vague reply from a staffer who then tried to backtrack with a message that, retroactively, her remark was "completely off the record."
Ultimately, in response to repeated questions, a member of Rauf's New York Cordoba Initiative foundation e-mailed me Friday, saying that Rauf's trip to the Middle East, "in the near future," will be hosted by the U.S. government as part of an outreach program to "bring the message of moderation, peace and understanding."
At the State Department, which presumably will be spending taxpayer money on Rauf's tour, I have yet to receive confirmation or any other information about his program, despite three days of my repeated requests by phone and e-mail. ...
All this comes at a moment when Rauf and his partners in New York are preparing to raise $100 million to build a 13-story Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero....
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
We are Truly insane.
Hummmm, maybe the HLS agents should check him for bringing over $10,000 into the U.S. Sure looks like a Money collection trip. Claiming Vistory over WTC Mosque.
Rauf could care less about “Muslim outreach” in NY or whatever spin and cliches he is using for western-media consumption.
Respect and fear, admiration and hate of the USA looms large in the passive-aggressive psyche of Muslims, and as such, Rauf’s project is for his own self-promotion and consumption to his constituency in the Muslim World - “Look what I have achieved in the United States, at NY’s ground zero, no less!”
Will he spent part of his vacation in Spain at our expense?
WE are not truly insane. OUR STATE DEPARTMENT AND EXECUTIVE BRANCH is insane. We are merely bankrolling the insanity.
Is Rauf’s summer trip abroad doubling as a fundraising tour
“WE are not truly insane. OUR STATE DEPARTMENT AND EXECUTIVE BRANCH is insane. We are merely bankrolling the insanity.”
Okay, so then we are truly stupid for bankrolling them.
It seems that every project on which money is spent involves some of our (taxpayers) money.
Is this guy affiliated with the US government in any way? This makes no sense at all.
Is Obamboozle affiliated with the US government? Does he make sense?
I guess the Dhimmicrats think the koranimals will cut their throat last.
NOT A DAMNED DIME!
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