(Sent to me by an old (ret. Army) friend.
Sorry about the formatting. No time to fix it now...Cadd.)
Grover Norquist, whom most conservatives know as Executive Director of the
College Republicans, boardmember of the NRA, and head of Americans for Tax
Reform, has been exposed as helping Muslim groups and individuals who
finance and support Islamic terrorism gain access to the Bush White House.
Norquist has also been exposed as the founder of the Islamic Insitute, a
group believed to be funded by foreign governments, Wahhab Islam elements
in Saudi Arabia, and U.S. Muslim groups recently raided by a special
Treasury Department task force for funding Al Qaeda and Palestinian
terrorists. The Islamic Institute's website lists the following goals:
1. Cultivate and expand Muslim activists and mobilize the community at the
state and federal levels on issues affecting the American Muslim community.
2. Provide a platform to promote an Islamic perspective on domestic issues
(social and fiscal) to help enhance the Muslim community's input in the
decision-making process.
3. Run aggressive campaigns at the state and federal levels on issues
affecting the American Muslim community.
Wahhabi Islam funding from Saudi Arabia appears to have been instrumental
is creating and and sustaining a large number of organizations involved in
such troubling activities as:
1. Recruiting felons into Islam in U.S. prisons
2. Recruiting U.S. military personnel
3. Proselytizing on more than 500 college campuses across the United States
4. Covertly raising funds for terrorist groups through U.S.-based Muslim
charities
5. Providing financial support - and gaining control - of 70-80 percent of
U.S. mosques, and
6. Setting up private Muslim K-12 schools to indoctrinate U.S. Muslims into
fundamentalist Islam (We ran an expose on one of these located just a few
miles from our HQ which you can find at
http://www.citizensoldier.org/madrassa.html.)
Norquist's relationship with Muslim groups that support terrorism became
public after Norquist launched an unexpected and inexplicably vitriolic
attack against Frank Gaffney, the President of the Center for Security
Policy.
During a routine Conservative Political Action Conference meeting in early
February, Gaffney participated in a panel discussion about the balance to
be struck in time of war between preserving civil liberties and
safeguarding American's lives and safety. Gafney expressed concern about
one of the most insidious of the Wahhabis' activities, a concerted attempt
to penetrate and influence the Executive and Legislative branch of our
government.
Gafney noted that groups like the American Muslim Council (AMC) and the
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) have been able to gain access
to the White House thanks to the White House's Associate Director of
Cabinet Affairs Ali Tulbah, a Muslim, and his predecessor, Suhail Kahn. At
the same time, Tulbah and Kahn have excluded moderate American Muslim
groups from White House access. Both Tulbah and Kahn have family ties to
extremist Wahhabi religious groups. AMC and CAIR have expressed support for
Hamas, Hezbollah, and Al Qaeda and are actively campaigning to waterdown
immigration controls, law enforcement, and intelligence gathering.
Gaffney's concerns are legitimate, because granting access to Muslim
extremists gives them a chance to exercise undue influence over policy -
undermining the war on terrorism - and confers a legitimacy that allows
them to dominate the U.S. Islamic community.
Norquist responded to Gaffney's comments by calling Gaffney a racist and
religious bigot in an appearance on Fox News Channel and in letters sent to
the Washington Post and Washington Times and barring Gaffney from attending
the most important meeting in Washington, the regular Wednesday meetings of
conservative Capitol Hill aides and interest-group representatives held in
Norquist's offices.
It is unclear whether the Muslims who have been acting as White House
gatekeepers - Ali Tulbah and Suhail Kahn - were actually placed in that
position by Grover Norquist's Islamic Institute. Norquist is credited with
delivering the Muslim vote for Bush in the 2000 election and has the ear of
the most influential man in Washington, Karl Rove, President Bush's
political advisor. Rove has been a featured speaker at Norquist's Wednesday
meetings.
Although it is not noted on either group's website, Norquist's Islamic
Institute actually shares office space and staff with Americans for Tax
Reform.
According to news reports, while Norquist served as founding Chairman of
the Islamic Institute the group received seed money from Abdurahman
Alamoudi, then a member of the left-wing American Muslim Council. MSNBC and
Fox News have aired videotapes of Alamoudi standing in front of the White
House, declaring his support for Hamas and Hezbollah. Hamas is currently
one of the leading groups responsible for Palestinian suicide bombers.
Hezbollah, sponsored by the Iranian government, was responsible for the
death of 240 Marines in Beirut in the 1980s and is believed to be
responsible for the attack on Khobar Towers, a barracks in Saudi Arabia.
Key members of the Islamic Institute have come from Alamoudi's
organization. One has acknowledged making contributions to the Holy Land
Foundation even after it's U.S. offices were shut down by the U.S.
government for funding terrorists.
The AMC and CAIR have been able to get access to senior officials in the
Bush Administration nine times since 9/11 despite the fact that CAIR has
sued Attorney General Ashcroft and in June 2002 CAIR's executive director
Nihad Awad declared that he supported the Hamas movement. Both groups have
incessantly attacked President Bush's policies on Iraq, the monitoring of
aliens from nations that sponsor terrorism, and the prosecution of
suspected terror operatives. After the most recent meeting on January 16th,
AMC's leader accused Bush of "calling on God to kill innocent Iraqi
children."
Norquist also has ties to Sami Al-Arian, president of the National
Committee to Protect Political Freedom (NCPPF). Al-Arian is under
investigation by the FBI for being the leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad
and was recently exposed by Fox's Bill O'Reilly who aired video tapes of
Al-Arian raising money for terrorists. Norquist accepted an award from the
NCPPF shortly before the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack. During the
2000 elections, Norquist introduced Al-Arian to then candidate Bush.
Since 9/11, Norquist has led opposition to domestic anti-terrorism laws and
has been quoted in frontpage NY times articles allelging a wholesale loss
of faith by conservatives in Attorney General Josh Ashcroft. Norquist has
also attacked Daniel Pipes, Steve Emerson, and others who have attempted to
alert Americans to the dangers of Islam.
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