“It’s not clear to me what the hell they’re doing here in the first place.”
Like most ‘policy’...follow the $$$.
It started with a ‘refugee program’ during Bush under the State Dept. refugee assistance program by the agency of USAID.
A Palestinian woman named Samah Alrayyes NORQUIST was picked by Bush to head programs like this up...YES, she is the wife of Grover Norquist (MUSLIM CONVERT) who designed all of Bush’s immigration/amnesty programs.
[snip]In late 2005 Norquist became Public Affairs Specialist for Arab and Muslim outreach at the Bureau of Legislative and Public affairs at United States Agency for International Development (USAID), focusing on Muslim and Arab outreach in Iraq, Afghanistan, Middle- and Near East and in other parts of the Muslim world where AID is present. Norquist is a native Arabic speaker and she has worked in the United States, Jordan, Egypt and Qatar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samah_Norquist
[snip]
In February 2009, a representative from the Washington, D.C.-based, Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) informed a conservative West Coast think tank that the topic of jihad was off limits at the annual event attended by 7,000 conservatives from around the country. At the previous CPAC meeting in 2008, Islamic expert Robert Spencer had been a featured speaker. But, a year later, when it was discovered that Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders would be in Washington at the time of the conference and a request was made to offer him an opportunity to speak to 2009 conference attendees, event organizers claimed that scheduling conflicts precluded their ability to include Wilders in the program.
It is critical to note that the Islamic Free Market Institute (a.k.a. Islamic Institute) was a co-sponsor of the 2009 conference. In 1999, the organization’s founder, Grover Norquist, received $20,000 in donations from now-convicted terrorist Abdurahman Alamoudi. Alamoudi, the founder of the American Muslim Council, had provided chaplains for the Department of Defense and pled guilty to helping organize the assassination of Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia using money supplied by Moamar Gaddafi of Libya. In addition, Norquist’s Islamic Institute was a sponsor of a 2000 anti-Israel rally at the White House in which Muslim leaders publicly expressed their support for terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/07/oneway_free_speech.html
Just wow.
So even CPAC has been compromised....
Thanks, AuntB,
I had always considered Grover Norquist no worst that a middle-of-the-roader, or moderate. I appreciate the additional information. It surprises me but I appreciate being informed.
KEYWORD: GroverNorquist
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/grovernorquist/index?tab=articles