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I don't see any racism in Gaffney's comments. I've listened to him once a week for two years on the Hugh Hewitt show. For those unfamiliar with him, he is a solid and measured analyst of foreign affairs.

Frank Gaffney bio

Frank Gaffney archive

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FYI

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((((((growl)))))

[Poohbah]

For those unfamiliar with him, he is a solid and measured analyst of foreign affairs.

Except he went medieval on two guys without offering rock-solid evidence in support of it.

Of course, I'm one of the politically-incorrect sorts who'd merely challenge Mr. Gaffney to put up, shut up, or name a second for the duel. I wouldn't have complained to Grover Norquist; I'd either speak for myself or retain the services of Pietro Beretta & Sons...

[crazykatz]

He sounds like one of the good guys to me....this Frank Gaffney guy, I mean...not grover "nor-am-I-quite-so-bright"!!

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Islamist 'enabler' threatens 'grave harm to Bush presidency,' Gaffney warns

A prominent conservative leader who allegedly has used undeclared foreign money and top political connections to promote terrorist sympathizers is an 'enabler' who threatens 'to do grave harm to the Bush presidency.'

Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney issued the warning in a letter to Grover Norquist, founding chairman of the Islamic Institute, after Norquist publicly accused Gaffney of 'racism and bigotry' and banished him from a weekly strategy group. Norquist's actions came in response to Gaffney's criticism of a White House official who allowed pro-terrorist Muslim groups access to the White House complex on January 16.

'People who afford terrorist-supporters or -apologists and their organizations entree into the White House deserve to be both challenged and criticized,' Gaffney wrote in response. Norquist, an anti-tax activist and Washington networker who often purports to speak in the name of President Bush, told Gaffney in a widely distributed letter that the Center for Security Policy leader was guilty of 'racial prejudice, religous bigotry or ethnic hatred' because the criticized official is a Muslim.

In response, Gaffney and American Conservative Union leader David Keene slammed Norquist for 'employing "Stalinist tactics" against those who disagree with Mr. Norquist's role in brokering access to the Bush White House,' the Washington Times reported on February 7.

Norquist has been criticized for promoting what is called the Wahhabi lobby, a Saudi-funded network designed to dominate and radicalize Islam in America, at the expense of other Muslim groups whose stand against terrorism is unequivocal.

'Why have you gone to such lengths to defend - to say nothing of legitimize and advance the agendas of - terrorist sympathizers and others hostile to everything for which American conservatives stand?' Gaffney asked Norquist in a responding letter. Gaffney listed his concerns:

* The Islamic Institute, which Norquist co-founded and houses in his Americans for Tax Reform office, received seed money from an avowed supporter of Hezbollah, the terrorist group that killed 241 US Marines in a 1983 suicide bomb attack.

* The Islamic Institute reportedly is 'predominantly funded by foreign governments, shady Saudi sources, and US-based groups raided by the Treasury Department-led Operation Green Quest Task Force for allegedly funding suicide bombers, al Qaeda and other terrorists' activities.'

* Norquist led conservative opposition to parts of the Bush administration's anti-terrorism legislation, without disclosing that his Islamic group was dependent on such funds.

* Norquist has affiliated himself with the radical National Committee to Protect Political Freedom (NCPPF), from which he received an award shortly before the September 11, 2001 attacks, despite the group's thirty-year public track record of promoting domestic and international terrorism.

* Norquist reportedly introduced Sami Al-Arian, whom federal law enforcement officials say is a leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, to then-candidate George W. Bush during the 2000 campaign. Televised videotape shows Al-Arian raising money in the US for terrorists.

Click here for the full text of Gaffney's letter.

One American Muslim group has warned for years about extremist and terrorist penetration of Islamic organizations in the US. Click here for its reports.
http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/index.jsp?section=today&headline_id=149
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If President Reagan thought enough to of nominated Frank Gaffney when he was President, then that trumps Norquist any day in my book.
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In April 1987, Mr. Gaffney was nominated by President Reagan to become the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, the senior position in the Defense Department with responsibility for policies involving nuclear forces, arms control and U.S.-European defense relations. He acted in that capacity for seven months during which time, he was the Chairman of the prestigious High Level Group, NATO's senior politico-military committee. He also represented the Secretary of Defense in key U.S.-Soviet negotiations and ministerial meetings.

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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=24738

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Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform and Shari'a Law

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Some more background on this...

GROVER NORQUIST'S STRANGE ALLIANCE WITH RADICAL ISLAM

Fevered Pitch - by Franklin Foer - Post date 11.01.01 | Issue date 11.12.01 - TNR

"On the afternoon of September 26, George W. Bush gathered 15 prominent Muslim- and Arab-Americans at the White House. With cameras rolling, the president proclaimed that "the teachings of Islam are teachings of peace and good." It was a critically important moment, a statement to the world that America's Muslim leaders unambiguously reject the terror committed in Islam's name.

Unfortunately, many of the leaders present hadn't unambiguously rejected it. To the president's 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 Bush's new friends, Rove replied, according to the activist, "I wish I had known before the event took place."

If the administration was caught unaware, it may be because they placed their trust in one of the right's most influential activists: Grover Norquist. As president of Americans for Tax Reform, Norquist is best known for his tireless crusades against big government. But one of Norquist's lesser-known projects over the last few years has been bringing American Muslims into the Republican Party. And, as he usually does, Norquist has succeeded. According to several sources, Norquist helped orchestrate various post-September 11 events that brought together Muslim leaders and administration officials. "He worked with Muslim leaders to engineer [Bush]'s prominent visit to the Mosque," says the Arab-American pollster John Zogby, referring to the president's September 17 trip to the Islamic Center of Washington. Says Zogby, who counts Norquist among his clients, "Absolutely, he's central to the White House outreach." 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. (Goldman denies this, but two separate sources say they heard him say it.) "Just like [administration officials] ask my advice on inviting religious figures to the White House," says Paul Weyrich, another top conservative activist, "they rely on Grover's help [with Muslims]."

Norquist denies being involved in "micromanaging the specifics" of White House meetings, but admits "I have been a long time advocate of outreach to the Muslim community." In fact, the record suggests that he has spent quite a lot of time promoting people openly sympathetic to Islamist terrorists. And it's starting to cause him problems. Weyrich, echoing other movement conservatives, says he is "not pleased" with Norquist's activity. According to one intelligence official who recently left the government, a number of counterterrorism agents at the FBI and CIA are "pissed as hell about the situation [in the White House] and pissed as hell about Grover." They should be. While nobody suggests that Norquist himself is soft on terrorism, his lobbying has helped provide radical Islamic groups--and their causes--a degree of legitimacy and access they assuredly do not deserve."

(Con't at link....)

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FYI: another opportunity, with plenty of sourced information, to discuss the substance of the charges that Grover Norquist has provided radical, terroist sympathizing Islamists with access to President Bush.

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Screw Grover Norquist. I saw him at CPAC this year. He got all dewey eyed over the "we're all immigrants" issue.

Friggin' Neo-con.

[F16Fighter]

The evidence suggests Norquist appears to playing the part of "useful tool" rather well.

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I hadn't seen this, thanks.

What the heck is this guy playing the race card for?

[Jael]

bump

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I don't see any racism in Gaffney's comments

That's because there is none. Grover Norquist is a disgusting little pipsqueak, and a tratior to boot. I saw him bashing Gaffney on John Gibson's program and Gibson looked amazed at the sheer venom coming from this fat beast. How DARE Norquist criticize Gaffney, who served this country as Dep. Secretary of Defense, while Norquist serves our enemies the Wahhabis--he takes their cash, promotes their radial ideology, and allies himself with terror-funders like Sami Al-Arian, who is one of Norquist's closest friends.

As a consultant I have been typing my fingers raw begging the White House and GOP leaders to push Norquist out of the window, that he was harming the party, weakening the nation, and undermining the President. To no avail. Perhaps NOW they will finally understand the danger they have let into their midst by allowing Norquist such close access to the President's inner sanctum. He is a devil. Cut the cord NOW!

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Norquist also formally uninvited Frank Gaffney from what the Washington Post describes as his "Wednesday...weekly lunch for conservative A-listers."

Just as well, the hummus, Halal meat and posters of Arafat probably wouldn't be to Gaffney's liking.