Newsweek columnist says US funding mosque construction

American Thinker ^ | August 8, 2010 | Lee DeCovnick

[jazusamo]

Truth, even in the tightly controlled prison of the Obama media complex, occasionally bursts forth like a swordfish cavorting on the waves of a golden August afternoon.

Newsweek, the Washington Post's former progressive stepchild, published an op-ed by Fareed Zakaria, the in-house lapdog for the Administration, extolling the virtues of building the Ground Zero Mosque. A couple of sentences demand a great deal more explanation.

To that end, early in its tenure the Bush administration began a serious effort to seek out and support moderate Islam. Since then, Washington has funded mosques, schools, institutes, and community centers that are trying to modernize Islam around the world.

We should be encouraging groups like the one behind this project, not demonizing them. Were this mosque being built in a foreign city, chances are that the U.S. government would be funding it.

Perhaps we all missed the memo where US taxpayers are gleefully funding Islamic "mosques, schools, institutes, and community centers" around the globe. Of course, US troops have restored hundreds of schools and community centers in Iraq and Afghanistan, but mosques and Islamic institutes? This seems very difficult to believe.

So, as an enraged and curious taxpaying citizen, I have a few questions for Mr. Zakaria, our Congress and this Administration. What are the locations, costs, and dates of construction of these US taxpayer-funded mosques and Islamic institutes?  If some of these mosques were built in the America, didn't anyone contact the ACLU?  (I would pay real money to be in "the room" during that discussion.) What particular piece of Congressional legislation authorized US taxpayer dollars to be spent on these mosques and Islamic institutes? Did our government apportion these funds fairly and equally between the Shi'a, Sunni, and Sufi sects of Islam?

The Constitution states "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;" I'm damn sure spending US taxpayer dollars on constructing mosques was not envisioned by the Founding Fathers nor by the overwhelming majority of American citizens.

[jazusamo]

It seems Fareed Zakaria and Newsweek have some explaining to to. He either lied about the US funding mosques and Islamic institutes or he and Newsweek better show some proof that we are.

[ExTexasRedhead]

We must call the Ruling Class in DC and demand an investigation. Send this to Drudge, Hannity, Levin, Beck et al.

[Diogenesis]

"(The GroundZero Mosque) cleared its final hurdle ….
developers plan to build the $100 million center which will include a mosque.
Since its incipient stages in July 2009, when a Muslim-run real-estate development
company purchased the damaged, vacant building and land where the new center
will be built, the project has sparked controversy and debate.
.... the tattered building that was bought by the Muslim real estate company had
been owned by a subsidiary of Bain Capital, a company Romney founded in 1984."

[Yet_Again]

In the end, when the left says “separation of church and state”, they mean “separation of Christianity and state.”

[Vendome]

Fareed must have a hangover from prideful arrogance to let this slip.

Loose Lips sink ships and you just opened a sieve.

[Marty62]

Follow the money, always leads to the perps.

[eleni121]

I am not surprised -— the Eurabians have been doing this for years. It’s a way - they say - to control how radical or not the imams are. State controlled “religion”.

[Nachum]

The list, ping

[GOPJ]

Knowing how our government works - an idea that might have merit - rewarding moderate Muslims - has now morphed into rewarding Muslims.

Would Roosevelt have allowed a Japanese Temple to be built at Pearl Harbor during the war? The answer would be, "hell no"... Dec 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - was not tarnished by idiotic politically correct thinking...

[Gritty]

This is akin to Congress funding Hirohito's aircraft carrier construction programs in 1942.

How can we be so stupid?

[jazusamo]

Good find...I guess I’m not too surprised Romney’s name pops up in this.

[TWhiteBear]

So Mr. Obama. as President, is funding the Victory Mosque that will be built on the 9/11 Twin Towers site?
TWB

[Marty62]

“Five years ago, the ADL honored me with its Hubert H. Humphrey First Amendment Freedoms Prize. I was thrilled to get the award from an organization that I had long admired. But I cannot in good conscience keep it anymore. I have returned both the handsome plaque and the $10,000 honorarium that came with it. I urge the ADL to reverse its decision. Admitting an error is a small price to pay to regain a reputation.” Fareed statement.

Is American Jewry finally getting the message.

And you thought respecting people like this was a way to peace. Surprise!!!

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Drip, drip, drip. If true, the Federal Government is now the enemy of the American People.

[alecqss]

Admitting an error is a small price to pay to regain a reputation

Oh, they lost "a reputation" among the islamist supremacists...

[sauropod]

Fareed Zakaria is a mindless twit.

Saw him last weekend just about foaming at the mouth (for him) about not extending Bush’s tax cuts.

[Clintonfatigued]

This is astonishing in the worst way possible.

[eleni121]

Obama Bush -— what’s the difference...yes the US taxpayer is funding the house of evil. Without our consent.

[PA-RIVER]

The Ground Zeo Mosque, will that be named after our Muslim president, Soebarkah, or Mohammed Attah?

Both Soebarkah and Attah had goals of destroying the US, so they both deserve the honor. Its a toss up.

[43north]

This is more proof - if any is needed - that the movie “Idiocracy” is not about the future. Rather, it is a documentary on the present.

[Zakeet]

Proposed appropriate design for the new Ground Zero Mosque

[PA-RIVER]

An Indonesian communist takes our money, while we are at 30 percent real unemployment, borrowing trillions, to fund Mosques.

It’s FU “in your face” time with the American people.

[PA-RIVER]

That is the Soebarkah-Binladen Mosque of NY, honoring the two muslims who have done the most damage to the great Satan.

[Tzimisce]

Yes - your tax dollars have been going to building Mosques. They’ve been doing it for some time.

Heck - those guys at Guantanamo are having their Qurans, Prayer rugs and services paid for by you and me. That’s more than we do for US prisoners!

[KevinDavis]

I agree.. Better show some proof... If true, this is a serious violation of the Constitution....

[unixfox]

Drip, drip, drip. If true, the Federal Government is now the enemy of the American People.

It's been an enemy for a looooonnnnggg time.

[lonevoice]

Holy crap. This goes with the ping I sent you just prior to this one.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Hm ....

[Digger]

Drip, drip, drip. If true, the Federal Government is now the enemy of the American People.

Sooooo, how long before we reverse it? The entrenched commies outside of congress won't go away just by a ballot box. Are ya pack'in?

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Strange enough to believe.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

“... Romney founded in 1984.”

Didn’t Romney sell his shares in that some time ago?

[happygrl]

An Army Officer I spoke to, a veteran of the Iraq War, assured me that our tax dollars were being used in both Iraq and Afghansitan to build mosques.

I do know that funds have been diverted in Urban Cities of the US, to fund Islamic Programs in Black Communities.

[PghBaldy]

This seems vaguely familiar (the gist of the article). The article implies the govt is NOT funding the Ground Zero Mosque.

[tbpiper]

...trying to modernize Islam...

Futility equivalent to making a porcine based silk purse, or dehydrated water.

[keats5]

God’s not going to like this, either.

[jazusamo]

Thanks, an Army veteran of the Iraq War could well have been in a position to know.

[chooseascreennamepat]

‘This is akin to Congress funding Hirohito's aircraft carrier construction programs in 1942.’

Can you provide some substantiation for this claim. I have never heard it before and I have studied WWII history fairly well.

[jazusamo]

Yes, it seems he’s implying that.

[Frantzie]

The Saudis fund all mosques in the west. They took control of America in Nov 2008. This sounds like what is happening. Fox/Saudia News is just one of MANY Saudi investments including CNN through Time Warner, GE (NBC/MSNBC), Citicorp, Apple, the list goes on and on and on.

[EGPWS]

In the end, when the left says “separation of church and state”, they mean “separation of Christianity and state.”

Yet_Again hits it

[rdl6989]

Election Day 2012 can’t come soon enough.

[EGPWS]

We must call the Ruling Class in DC and demand an investigation.

There's quite a list of investigations to weed through in the last couple of years (since 01/20/2009) because of the fighters of the culture of corruption efforts in "draining the swamp".

[Menehune56]

Dhimmitude in America.

[HearMe]

Look at the bright side.

The membership of this site are mostly in their 40-60’s.

It will take some time, so by the time Islam takes over the World, we at least will, likely, be spared.... by being dead.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

I, Doctor Bogus X. Pachysandra, declare a fatwa on everyone involved!

[bigheadfred]

Uh-oh...best me be gettin’ uninvolved. I didn’t read the article and I didn’t read the comments or post THIS one either...

[OrangeHoof]

What happened to that “separation of church and state” thingy the lefties are always bleating about whenever Christians want to do anything?

[snowsislander]

Since then, Washington has funded mosques ...

I agree with Mr. DeCovnick: Fareed Zakaria needs to either cite a source on this or retract it, because it is a very serious charge.

If our government has indeed been funding mosques, as he claims, then we need a complete accounting of these expenditures PDQ.

[LilAngel]

Yes, but some of us care about our progeny.

[conservativegramma]

I’m so angry I don’t even know what to say. How about our tax payer dollars funding Christian churches and schools???? HELLO! Separation of Church and state??!?!??