US spending $16,000 for imam's Mideast tour [ As Nancy calls for Investigation of Mosque Critics]

AP ^ | Aug 18 2010 | AP

[NoLibZone]

WASHINGTON (AP) - American taxpayers will pay the imam behind plans for a mosque near the Manhattan site of the Sept. 11 attacks $3,000 in fees for a three-nation outreach trip to the Middle East that will cost roughly $16,000, the State Department said Wednesday.

The department said Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf will get a daily $200 honorarium for the 15-day tour to Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, which is intended to promote religious tolerance.

Airfare is included, as well as the standard federal government per diem for expenses and lodging in each of the cities he will visit, spokesman P.J. Crowley said. Those per diem rates range from nearly $400 to nearly $500, according to official documents.

The imam's organization, The Cordoba Initiative, referred questions on the matter to the State Department.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

The media are being held accountable the ones that vote and pay attention KNOW that they are working in Obama’s campaign.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

http://www.pollingreport.com/media.htm

[skeeter]

While that is good news, the MSM scum still have a disproportionate ability to set the agenda.

And we're running out of time.

[Parley Baer]

...and who runs the State Department? Hillary of course.

[stylecouncilor]

ping

[popdonnelly]

The secretly funded cabal that is against putting the mosque there sure is doing a great job. Seventy percent of the people polled don’t want it there. /s

[popdonnelly]

The secretly funded cabal that is against putting the mosque there sure is doing a great job. Seventy percent of the people polled don’t want it there. /s

[American Dream 246]

"For evil to flourish, all that is needed is for good people to do nothing." - Edmund Burke


A Christian Nation cannot put up a Christmas scene of the baby Jesus in a public place, but the Muslims can stop normal traffic every Friday

This is in New York City on Madison Avenue EVERY FRIDAY, not in France or the Middle East or Yemen or Kenya.

http://www.resistnet.com/group/thecornerstoneofthenation/forum/topics/this-is-nyc-on-madison

[EBH]

You know, I want the separation of church and state thingy to apply.

The government of the United States has no business promoting religion.

[American Dream 246]

In the meantime, judges want to remove the crosses of police officers killed. FREEDOM OF RELIGION FOR THEM BUT NOT FOR US. We HAVE to keep on fighting hard to save OUR christianity in the US.

[JoyjoyfromNJ]

And of course anyone standing across the street, in front of them, with a sign saying anything derogatory about Islam would be arrested for disturbing the peace. I’ll have to remember to load up my purse with Bac-O’s (bacon bits) before I go to NYC . . . .

[American Dream 246]

Good idea - we should all start to walk around with bacon or bacon perfume. That should be more efficient than talk..

[mojitojoe]

I don’t want a mosque to replace the stinkcoln monument, but I would shed no tears if the monument was cleared. Lincoln was a tyrannical sob.

[Bokababe]

He (Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf) will not be allowed to raise funds for the mosque on the trip, Crowley said.

Uh-huh, and if I believe that, they've got a mosque to sell me!

[bt579]

[Hulka]

JFTRs have sever limitations on class of travel.

Someone better ask the question: Is he traveling coach-class, and if not, why not?

Interesting question that will reveal much. Generals don't get automatic upgrades to Business, let alone First.

[Hulka]

Something very odd about a “religion” where they pray by sticking their butts in each others faces.

Hmmm. . . .

[Bulgaricus1]

Nan’s skull should be investigated to see if there is anything inside it other than rocks & dirt...

[REPANDPROUDOFIT]

I wonder if the State Department has funded similar trips for Christian clergy? Have they sent a Jewish Rabbi, a Catholic Bishop or an Episcopal Bishop to lands that need to know about our diversity? I wonder what the left would have to say about funding such a trip?

[Flint]

Nother job created by The Messiah! And the count goes up another notch. Wonder if they count all the people that we are paying to go with him as jobs created also?