Ground Zero Mosque Imam now working for State Dept

[ericire12]

WTF moment #23,185





http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/feds_funding_zero_imam_mideast_trip_OTq9dmoHpxbaKvJbB4VLGM

The imam behind a plan to build a mosque near Ground Zero is set to depart on a multi-country jaunt to the Middle East funded by the State Department -- raising concerns that taxpayers may be helping him with the controversial project's $100 million fund-raising goal.

Feisal Abdul Rauf is taking the publicly funded trip to foster "greater understanding" about Islam and Muslim communities in the United States, the State Department confirmed yesterday.

"He is a distinguished Muslim cleric," said State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley, when asked about the journey, reportedly to include stops in Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain and Qatar.

"I think we are in the process of arranging for him to travel as part of this program, and it is to foster a greater understanding about the region around the world among Muslim-majority communities," he added.

More here:
http://weaselzippers.us/2010/08/07/ground-zero-mosque-imam-to-tour-mid-east-courtesy-of-us-state-department/





*Just as an aside, I was channel surfing while drinking my coffee this morning and somehow landed on Live with Regis and Kelly.... Those two idiots are outraged, OUTRAGED, that NY is cutting down 85 trees in Brooklyn. I would have given Haz's left paw to have been in the audience... "You do know that they are building a Mosque at Ground Zero? RIGHT!?!?!?"

[Hazcat]

WTF???!!!!

The jerk says America WILL run under Sharia law. 


And Obama is Not a muslim....

[ericire12]

WTF???!!!!

The jerk says America WILL run under Sharia law. 


And Obama is Not a muslim....

He also blamed America for 9/11

[tt11758]

You know, there seems to be a lot of controversy about building this mosque in the shadow of "Ground Zero". 

To those who support the construction, I wonder how their parents would have felt had there been a proposal to build a Shinto Temple in the shadow of Pearl Harbor?

Just sayin.

[tombogan03884]

If they do not loot the crap out of it, they deserve it.

[Sponsor]

[jaybet]

When is the last time they sent a catholic priest or methodist minister flying around the world?
Start sewing shotgun pockets in your burkas.

[Solus]

Muslims are the fastest growing population segment in the world, and are moving fast in the US. 

Lots of potential voters popping out there...just like the illegals.

[fightingquaker13]

Muslims are the fastest growing population segment in the world, and are moving fast in the US.  

Lots of potential voters popping out there...just like the illegals.

Half the population of Affghanistan is under 25, and its not far ahead of other muslim states. They can't find jobs at home so......But nobody says we have to take them. Will someone have the balls to revisit the 1965 immigration law and say Oops!, maybe national quotas weren't such a bad idea after all? I refuse to see demographics as destiny. Just because you won't practice responsible birth control doesn't mean you get to rule the world, much less this country.
FQ13 who doesn't mind being called a racist if it means pointing out that some cultures assimilate more easily than others.

[McGyver]

Ok, where's the Teddy Roosevelt quote about immigrants now? (He may have done some damage, but he WAS right about immigration!)

[fightingquaker13]

Ok, where's the Teddy Roosevelt quote about immigrants now? (He may have done some damage, but he WAS right about immigration!)

You mean this one?

We should insist that if the immigrant who comes here does in good faith become an American and assimilates himself to us he shall be treated on an exact equality with every one else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed or birth-place or origin.
But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, then he isn't doing his part as an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. . . We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house; and we have room for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people.
TR in a letter from 1919
FQ13