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Oread Daily | 26.03.2002 21:37
BOOK EM, DANNO
"The Institute's work in spreading the importance of conservative principles and the Republican Party in the Islamic community is compelling and important."
Jim Nicholson, Former Chairman of the Republican National Committee
This just in from the "Oops!" department. It seems that the target of an anti-terrorist raid in the United States last week provided funds for an Islamic group with close ties to the Republican party and the White House. The Safa trust, a Saudi-backed charity, has provided funds for a political group called the Islamic Institute, which was set up to mobilize support for the Republican party. The Institute eschews international issues in favor of domestic issues such as tax cuts and faith-based initiatives It shares an office in Washington with the Republican activist Grover Norquist. The institute, founded in 1999 to win influence in the Republican party, has helped to arrange meetings between senior Bush officials and Islamic leaders. Mr Norquist, who is a member of the institute's board, said that it existed "to promote democracy and free markets. Any effort to imply guilt by association is incompetent McCarthyism" (i.e. what we need is competent McCarthyism). Norquist and the group’s chairman, Khaled Saffuri, have arranged meetings between Islamic leaders and top Bush officials.
During his presidential campaign and his first months in office, George W. Bush had no stronger supporter than Grover Norquist. Norquest is the president of Americans for Tax Reform. When Bush finally took office, Norquist became a key ally in the president’s tax-cut quest. Oddly, the Protestant Norquist is a founding director of the Islamic Institute. In addition, Norquist’s lobbying firm, Janus-Merritt Strategies LLC, was officially registered as a lobbyist for the Islamic Institute.
Will the Republican Party, Americans for Tax Reform, and Janus-Merritt Strategies LLC be placed on US list of terrorist organizations? Will their assets be frozen? Will their leaders and members be rounded up and detained? Stay tuned, space fans. Film at ten.
Sources: Newsweek, Truthout, Islamic Institute, Boston Phoenix
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"The Institute's work in spreading the importance of conservative principles and the Republican Party in the Islamic community is compelling and important."
Jim Nicholson, Former Chairman of the Republican National Committee
This just in from the "Oops!" department. It seems that the target of an anti-terrorist raid in the United States last week provided funds for an Islamic group with close ties to the Republican party and the White House. The Safa trust, a Saudi-backed charity, has provided funds for a political group called the Islamic Institute, which was set up to mobilize support for the Republican party. The Institute eschews international issues in favor of domestic issues such as tax cuts and faith-based initiatives It shares an office in Washington with the Republican activist Grover Norquist. The institute, founded in 1999 to win influence in the Republican party, has helped to arrange meetings between senior Bush officials and Islamic leaders. Mr Norquist, who is a member of the institute's board, said that it existed "to promote democracy and free markets. Any effort to imply guilt by association is incompetent McCarthyism" (i.e. what we need is competent McCarthyism). Norquist and the group’s chairman, Khaled Saffuri, have arranged meetings between Islamic leaders and top Bush officials.
During his presidential campaign and his first months in office, George W. Bush had no stronger supporter than Grover Norquist. Norquest is the president of Americans for Tax Reform. When Bush finally took office, Norquist became a key ally in the president’s tax-cut quest. Oddly, the Protestant Norquist is a founding director of the Islamic Institute. In addition, Norquist’s lobbying firm, Janus-Merritt Strategies LLC, was officially registered as a lobbyist for the Islamic Institute.
Will the Republican Party, Americans for Tax Reform, and Janus-Merritt Strategies LLC be placed on US list of terrorist organizations? Will their assets be frozen? Will their leaders and members be rounded up and detained? Stay tuned, space fans. Film at ten.
Sources: Newsweek, Truthout, Islamic Institute, Boston Phoenix
The Oread Daily provides daily (Monday-Friday) progressive, left, anti-racist, anarchist, commie, activist, environmental, Marxist, revolutionary, etc. news and information from around the US and around the world. The Oread Daily was a mimeographed sheet that came out first in the summer of 1970 in Lawrence, Kansas. It was irreverent, radical, spicy, revolutionary et. al. Now, three decades later it returns. To view the entire Oread Daily, please visit:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OreadDaily
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