Do the American Taxpayers Really Need to Fund Terrorism?
The Obama administration paid for Dawud Walid of CAIR (The Council of American Islamic Relations), an anti-American Islamist group, to travel to Mali to represent America to the Malians. Quoting Daniel Pipes and Sharon Chadha on CAIR:
The Department of Homeland Security refuses to deal with it. Senator Charles Schumer (Democrat, New York) describes it as an organization “which we know has ties to terrorism.” Senator Dick Durbin (Democrat, Illinois) observes that CAIR is “unusual in its extreme rhetoric and its associations with groups that are suspect.” Steven Pomerantz, the FBI’s former chief of counter-terrorism, notes that “CAIR, its leaders, and its activities effectively give aid to international terrorist groups.” The family of John P. O’Neill, Sr., the former FBI counter-terrorism chief who perished at the World Trade Center, named CAIR in a lawsuit as having “been part of the criminal conspiracy of radical Islamic terrorism” responsible for the September 11 atrocities. Counter-terrorism expert Steven Emerson calls it “a radical fundamentalist front group for Hamas.”
The Obama administration is also using taxpayer dollars to send Feisal Abdul Rauf, the nutcase who wants to build a mosque overlooking ground zero, on a tour of the middle east — to represent America. This is a guy who wants to implement Sharia law in the United States, who blames America for 9/11, and who supports the terrorist group Hamas — and the Obama administration feels that he’s the kind of guy we want representing us in the middle east.
It seems obvious that using terrorist supporters to represent the United States is a bad idea. If we want to represent America abroad we should send great Americans like Caspar Weinberger, Richard Perle, Ari Fleischer, or Paul Wolfowitz.
In addition, it seems to me that paying religious leaders to represent their religions violates the separation of church and state which is a cherished part of the United States Constitution. Obama doesn’t seem to have much interest in the Constitution, but we should.
We may not be able to defeat Islamic terrorism — but do we have to fund it? Is that really how the American people want their precious tax dollars spent?
