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President Obama to American Muslims: I will ease the impact of post 9/11 scrutiny of charities
NY Daily News ^ | 6/5/09 | Michael Saul

Posted on 06/05/2009 1:58:22 PM PDT by Nachum

Tucked away in President Obama's historic speech in Cairo Thursday was a promise to American Muslims to ease the impact of post-9/11 scrutiny of their charities.

"Rules on charitable giving have made it harder for Muslims to fulfill their religious obligation. That's why I'm committed to working with American Muslims to ensure that they can fulfill zakat," said Obama, referring to the Muslim obligation to be charitable

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I have a sickening fear that nothing short of a few massive terrorist attacks, I'm talking millions dead, will wake this country up and fill us with the resolve needed to do what needs to be done to save ourselves form the Islamo wackos.

I'm sick with fear for what we are becoming.

121 posted on 06/05/2009 7:30:47 PM PDT by Jotmo (Has 0bama fixed my soul yet?)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/57states
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http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=48663

“Islamic Bloc Cool to Obama’s Proposed ‘57-State Solution’”
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
By Patrick Goodenough, International Editor

SNIPPET: “(CNSNews.com) – Days before President Barack Obama delivers a much-anticipated speech to the Muslim world, Islamic nations have set the conditions on which they would agree to any U.S. plan to offer Israel recognition as part of a Mideast peace deal.

Jordan’s King Abdullah has disclosed that Obama is interested in a “57-state solution” – offering Israel ties with the Islamic world in return for a peace deal.

Foreign ministers from the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), meeting in Damascus, said in a declaration that Islamic governments would not reward Israel for its “crimes.”

“Any development in relations – if any exist at all – [must be] tied to the concrete expression of Israel’s commitment to just and comprehensive peace, which would guarantee the restoration of legitimate national rights and withdrawal from the occupied lands in Palestine, Golan, and southern Lebanon,” it said.

Obama is due to speak on June 4 in Cairo, where he is expected to lay out his vision for the road ahead in Mideast peace efforts.”

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122 posted on 06/05/2009 7:38:27 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: dynachrome

What do you think of President Obama’s views of the Muslim world and peace?

It makes him appear naive. This is a dangerous world. Stop singing Kumbaya. — 40%

They inspire hope. And I’m too stupid to see what’s happening to my country. — 49%

I don’t care enough to find out how to vote, here or anywhere else. — 10%

No total number of votes given.


123 posted on 06/05/2009 8:08:53 PM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: exist

YOMANK


124 posted on 06/05/2009 8:09:51 PM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: Nachum

He did say that. Just not in so many words.


125 posted on 06/05/2009 9:09:08 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is the belief that most people are better off if everyone was equally poor and miserable.)
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To: Nachum

ZERO will find away to reconstitute the trashed Muslim HLF terorists with the Holy Land Foundation.


126 posted on 06/05/2009 9:21:01 PM PDT by Polarik (It's the forgery, Stupid!)
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To: thelastvirgil

He is like Nimrod the mighty hunter AGAINST God who desired to build a tower to heaven and God confounded the languages. When is God going to confound & take down 0boooooooombashiite the anti-Christ???


127 posted on 06/05/2009 10:28:02 PM PDT by rcrngroup
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To: Nachum
Congratulations, America, on your "historic" election.


128 posted on 06/05/2009 10:30:29 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: BlueNgold

They are mesmerized. for all practical purposes, they are possessed..


129 posted on 06/05/2009 10:40:14 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

The 57 Islamic states..


130 posted on 06/05/2009 10:40:49 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; cyborg; DKNY; ...
Yet another Obama outrage of the day:

Tucked away in President Obama's historic speech in Cairo Thursday was a promise to American Muslims to ease the impact of post-9/11 scrutiny of their charities.

"Rules on charitable giving have made it harder for Muslims to fulfill their religious obligation. That's why I'm committed to working with American Muslims to ensure that they can fulfill zakat," said Obama, referring to the Muslim obligation to be charitable...

131 posted on 06/05/2009 10:49:20 PM PDT by nutmeg (DemocRATs: The party of tax cheats and other assorted crooks)
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To: pctech
More traitorous talk from “O.” I hope the idiots who voted for him are happy.....

Unfortunately the idiots who voted for him ARE happy, and proud of it!!!

Never mind about 9.4% unemployment, socialist spending programs up the ying yang, gubmint takeover of the banking, mortgage & now the auto industry, trillions of dollars in new debt, half of 0booooomba's cabinet nominees are tax cheats, rationed health care on it's way, $350,000 fly by's by AF1 over NYC to reward some high roller donors, or perhaps Michelle out schmoozing with her Vanity & Ebony magazine grovelers, etc, etc, no big deal....

The dumbass libtards are ecstatic about 0boooooombashit. He's their messiah, the chosen one (piss be upon him). My dumbass brother who makes nearly $200k AND lives in Californicate thinks 0boooooombashit is the best thing since sliced bread but will go nuclear ballistic when confronted with facts like above. Or my equally dumbass Phd educated boss has never found a demoRAT and especially 0boooooombashit that he wouldn't vote for a hundred times over no matter what 0booooooombashit has done or ever will do to destroy our country.

That's the condition of the dumbass sheeple in Amerika-----dumb & dumber and happy & proud of it!!!

Enough of that,
now let's get back to the real issue.... are Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie really going to divorce? Where's Oprah? What's she got to say about it? Ohhhhh what will happen? /teary eyed

132 posted on 06/05/2009 11:06:58 PM PDT by rcrngroup
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To: Jotmo
I have a sickening fear that nothing short of a few massive terrorist attacks, I'm talking millions dead, will wake this country up and fill us with the resolve needed to do what needs to be done to save ourselves form the Islamo wackos.

Unfortunately I think that 0boooooomba would welcome those types of massive "unplanned human disaster" attacks, as his pretext for declaring a national emergency and there consolidating all power exclusively to HIM. Totalitarians (fascists or communists) always use a crisis as a pretext for taking over & consolidating their power. Hitler did it with the Reichstag fire that he orchestrated and then blamed on the communists & Jews, and completed his dictatorial takeover of Germany. 0boooooomba will follow the same marxist-fascist script and that will be the end of our USA Republic as we know it today.

133 posted on 06/05/2009 11:21:19 PM PDT by rcrngroup
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To: Cindy

thank you so much for the time you took to gather this information!

Your post demonstrates the intellectual and rational power of Freeper!

We now have only the internet and Fox news for freedom of speech. thank God.


134 posted on 06/06/2009 5:48:07 AM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie
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To: sheik yerbouty

thank you.

Its really hard to keep up with Obozo’s lies and twists and turns. He really has beat Slick Willy!


135 posted on 06/06/2009 5:49:17 AM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie
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To: Dallas59

If a million American men, women, and children die because of this, the people will STILL give Obama a free pass. Let’s face it, Obama is our “dear leader”.


136 posted on 06/06/2009 6:07:21 AM PDT by Soothesayer (The United States of America Rest in Peace November 4 2008)
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To: popdonnelly

This moron saw himself in an Egyptian hieroglyph...


137 posted on 06/06/2009 6:10:08 AM PDT by Soothesayer (The United States of America Rest in Peace November 4 2008)
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To: RaceBannon

A Democrat can do no wrong...


138 posted on 06/06/2009 6:12:58 AM PDT by Soothesayer (The United States of America Rest in Peace November 4 2008)
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To: pctech

The citizens of a major American city can be bleeding to death from IED shrapnel and still thankful for Obama. They can be watching their own children die from IED shrapnel and yet still be thankful for Obama. We are becoming the western North Korea.


139 posted on 06/06/2009 6:20:58 AM PDT by Soothesayer (The United States of America Rest in Peace November 4 2008)
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To: ptgustan; null and void; Beckwith; stockpirate; pissant; PhilDragoo; Candor7; MeekOneGOP; ...
“Rules on charitable giving have made it harder for Muslims to fund terrorism.”

If ZERO had been President a year ago, the FBI would not have been able to investigate and prosecute the Holy Land Foundation, a Muslim "charity" found guily on 108 counts of funneling more than $12 million to the Palestinian group Hamas after the Clinton administration in 1995 declared it a terrorist group for sponsoring suicide bombings targeting Israelis.

The convictions were a major counterterrorism victory for the Justice Department, which has failed to get guilty verdicts on the most serious charges in other similar trials around the country.

FOXNEWS has a shocking video of a skit performed by Mufid Abdul Qatar, half brother of Khalid Mashaal, the Hamas supreme commander in exile, and one of the defendants in the HLF trial. In the skit, Qatar says, "I am Hamas. I am going to kill Jews." The skits were put on by the Islamic Association for Palestine, another one of these phony Muslim charities, and is a sister organization of the HLF.

Although this skit took place in 1988, it's clear that Qatar,the defendant, as well as the organization, clearly indicate their desire to carry out genocide against Jews. At the very end of this skit, which is pretty horrifying, Qatar actually kills the Jew; and you can actually hear children in the audience laughing and applauding.

Suspicious of its terrorist ties, U.S. federal authorities began monitoring the Holy Land Foundation in 1996. On September 5, 2001, federal anti-terrorism agents raided InfoCom Corporation, the company that ran the HLF website. According to defectors from the conspiracy, the HLF web server was used also by the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Islamic Society of North America, the Muslim Students' Association of the U.S. and Canada, the Islamic Circle of North America, the Islamic Association for Palestine, and American Muslims for Jerusalem. As Islam scholar

Stephen Schwartz writes, "All these organizations drew from the common financial and technical pool at HLF. All shared a single administrative and technical contact for the maintenance of the web server. They had been erected as political shells around the Hamas hydra-head represented by HLF." (Support for Hamas had become illegal in 1995 as the result of an executive order by President Bill Clinton and subsequent congressional action.)

On December 4, 2001, the Bush administration seized all HLF assets and records because of its Hamas connections. Said President Bush at the time: "Hamas has obtained much of the money that it pays for murder abroad right here in the United States, money originally raised by the Holy Land Foundation.

The Holy Land Foundation ... raised $13 million from people in America last year. … Money raised by the Holy Land Foundation is used by Hamas to support schools and indoctrinate children to grow up into suicide bombers. [It] is also used by Hamas to recruit suicide bombers and to support their families."

In July 2004, federal authorities arrested five former HLF leaders: Shukri Abu Baker (HLF's co-founder and former President and Chief Executive); Ghassan Elashi (HLF's co-founder and former Board Chairman and Treasurer); Mohammed El-Mezain (HLF's co-founder and former Board Chairman); Mufid Abdulqader (the half-brother of Hamas's supreme political leader, Khaled Mashal); and Abdulraham Odeh (HLF's former New Jersey representative).

In a 42-count indictment, these individuals were charged with providing material support for Hamas terrorists to the tune of $12.4 million over a six-year period, and more than $57 million since the late 1988. Two more ex-officials of HLF, Haitham Maghawri and Akram Mishal, managed to escape U.S. jurisdiction and are considered to be fugitives.

According to the indictment, HLF tried to hide its terrorist-financing activities from American law-enforcement by making a few small contributions to innocuous, non-Palestinian entities while reserving the vast majority of its funds for terrorists.

As Shukri Abu Baker told his underlings: "We can give $100,000 to the Islamists and $5,000 to the others." Another HLF program, masquerading as charitable support for needy families and orphans in Palestinian territories, is said to have channeled money to families whose relatives had been killed or captured while waging jihad; some of them were suicide bombers.

In December 2006, two openly pro-Castro organizations -- the Humanitarian Law Project and the Center for Constitutional Rights -- jointly petitioned a federal judge to dismiss many of the charges brought against HLF.

On July 23, 2007, HLF's leaders went on trial. Seven principal individuals were charged with twelve counts of providing "material support and resources" to a foreign terrorist organization. Additionally, they faced thirteen counts of money laundering and thirteen counts of breaching the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), which prohibits transactions that threaten American national security.

Along with the seven named defendants, the government released a list of approximately 300 "unindicted co-conspirators" and "joint venturers."

Among the unindicted co-conspirators were groups such as Hamas, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, INFOCOM, the Islamic Society of North America, the Muslim Arab Youth Association, the Islamic Association for Palestine, the United Association for Studies and Research, and the North American Islamic Trust. The list also included many individuals affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood and/or Hamas.

Among these were Omar Ahmad, Abdallah Azzam, Yousef al-Qaradawi, Mohammad Jaghlit, Abdurahman Alamoudi, Jamal Badawi, Abdel Aziz Rantisi, Ahmed Yassin, and Mousa Abu Marzook. Thirty-nine directors, employees and representatives of HLF were also named.

On October 22, 2007, after a two-month trial and nineteen days of jury deliberation, Judge A. Joe Fish declared a mistrial because the jury had been unable to deliver unanimous verdicts and had failed to convict on a single count brought against the defendants.

When the government retried the case a year later, prosecutors made several key adjustments. Most notably, they dropped some counts against particular defendants; they called several new witnesses; and they displayed three exhibits which Israeli military officials had seized from the Palestinian Authority (PA).

Those exhibits demonstrated that the PA, like the U.S. government, clearly considered HLF to be a Hamas funder; that an HLF-supported charity committee was fully controlled by Hamas; and that the defendants were well aware that whatever money they were raising in the U.S. was earmarked for Hamas.

On November 24, 2008, the jury convicted five former HLF officials -- Shukri Abu-Baker, Ghassan Elashi, Mohamed El-Mezain, Mufid Abdulqader and Abdelrahman Odeh -- of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists.

If ZERO steps in and reduces or pardons any of these sentences, I'm going to make sure every Jew in America knows about it. I may do that anyway.

140 posted on 06/06/2009 6:26:57 AM PDT by Polarik (It's the forgery, Stupid!)
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