Posted on 03/16/2015 5:26:04 AM PDT by SJackson
Glenn Beck to NRA: Its Norquist or Me
Posted By Robert Spencer On March 16, 2015 @ 12:21 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage | 12 Comments
Glenn Beck has declared that he will leave the National Rifle Association (NRA) if Republican Party kingmaker Grover Norquist remains on the Board of Directors.
This is long overdue: it has now been over eleven years since FrontPage Magazine first published revelations about what David Horowitz described as Norquists alliances with prominent Islamic radicals who have ties to the Saudis and to Libya and to Palestine Islamic Jihad, and who are now under indictment by U.S. authorities. Horowitz added:
Equally troubling is that the arrests of these individuals and their exposure as agents of terrorism have not resulted in noticeable second thoughts on Grovers part or any meaningful effort to dissociate himself from his unsavory friends.
Nothing has changed in the intervening years. Norquist has dismissed concerns about his ties to Islamic supremacists as bigotry and hatred, and this has apparently satisfied the Republican establishment and prominent conservative spokesmen until now, with Beck breaking ranks.
Becks peers and Republican leaders could have and should have ended Norquists baneful influence on the Republican Party and the conservative movement years ago. The November 1, 2001 issue of The New Republic (hardly a right-wing organ) noted that right after 9/11, President Bush met with several Muslim leaders with unsavory ties to the global jihad:
To the presidents left sat Dr. Yahya Basha, president of the American Muslim Council, an organization whose leaders have repeatedly called Hamas freedom fighters. Also in attendance was Salam Al-Marayati, executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, who on the afternoon of September 11 told a Los Angeles public radio audience that we should put the State of Israel on the suspect list. And sitting right next to President Bush was Muzammil Siddiqi, president of the Islamic Society of North America, who last fall told a Washington crowd chanting pro-Hezbollah slogans, America has to learn if you remain on the side of injustice, the wrath of God will come. Days later, after a conservative activist confronted Karl Rove with dossiers about some of Bushs new friends, Rove replied, according to the activist, I wish I had known before the event took place.
Why didnt he? Because of Norquist, who
helped orchestrate various post-September 11 events that brought together Muslim leaders and administration officials…Indeed, when Jewish activists and terrorism experts complained about the Muslim invitees to Adam Goldman, who works in the White House public liaison’s office, Goldman replied that Norquist had vouched for them.
In 1999, the prominent American Muslim leader Abdurrahman Alamoudi, who is now in prison for financing al-Qaeda, wrote two $10,000 checks to Norquists Islamic Institute (aka the Islamic Free Market Institute). Alamoudi is also notorious for proclaiming to a Muslim rally in Washington in 2000: I have been labeled by the media in New York to be a supporter of Hamas. Anybody support Hamas here? … Hear that, Bill Clinton? We are all supporters of Hamas. I wished they added that I am also a supporter of Hizballah. There is no indication that Norquist denounced Alamoudi, or returned his checks, after Alamoudis open embrace of jihad terror groups.
Even closer to Norquist is Suhail Khan, Norquists American Conservative Union (ACU) colleague. The ACU hosts the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the nations largest annual gathering of conservatives, and many observers have charged that Norquist and Khan have foreclosed on any honest discussion of the jihad threat at CPAC. Investigative journalist Paul Sperry revealed in the New York Post in January 2011 that Khan accepted an award from Alamoudi in 2001, commenting: Abdurahman Alamoudi has been very supportive of me. . . . I hope, inshallah, we can keep working together.
Sperry also noted that
in September 2001, four days before the 9/11 attacks, Khan spoke at the Islamic Society of North Americas convention….At the event, Khan shared his experiences from inside the White House, and praised his late father, Mahboob Khan, for helping found ISNA which the government now says is a front for the radical Muslim Brotherhood and has raised money for jihad .Khan vowed in his speech to carry on his fathers legacy.
There is much more on Norquists unsavory associations and activities, as you can see in these articles on Norquist by Daniel Greenfield, Pamela Geller, Patrick Poole, Jamie Glazov (interviewing Paul Sperry), and David Horowitz. Conservatives have suffered from being in Norquists shadow for too long. Particularly in these dark latter days of the Obama Administration, it is imperative that conservative candidates establish themselves as a genuine loyal opposition formulating a realistic and coherent alternative to Obamas disastrous pro-Muslim Brotherhood policies.
Grover Norquist is the biggest single obstacle preventing that from happening. Glenn Beck is to be commended for being the first major figure on the Right to stand up and say that Grover must go. We can only hope that others will soon follow suit.
Beck is a full time self promoter and Norquist takes money from America’s enemies. Vote both of them off.
Ping me if anyone has a lucid answer.
I ended up simply doing an Interwebs search for 2015 NRA board endorsements and found several pro-gun websites with recommendations.
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