There are no absolutes. What is disappointing and sometimes mystifying is when you realize that someone in your midst doesn’t represent the ideas you thought they did. I’ve had some experiences with that myself within the ranks of TWA, and when reality finally hits, it can be a devastasting blow. I think it was the same for David Horowitz back in 2003, when he published the article by Frank Gaffney. At the time, Instapundit, and many other bloggers were all over the news. Here is some of the background:
Frontpage Magazine had this story back in 2003. Always “in the know”, David Horowitz prefaces and frames an article by Frank Gaffney, exposing Norquist as a supporter of the Islamic 5th column in the whitehouse supporting Islamic terrorism.
It is with a heavy heart therefore, that I am posting this article, which is the most complete documentation extant of Grover Norquist’s activities in behalf of the Islamist Fifth Column. I have confronted Grover about these issues and have talked to others who have done likewise. But it has been left to Frank Gaffney and a few others, including Daniel Pipes and Steven Emerson, to make the case and to suffer the inevitable recriminations that have followed earlier disclosures of some aspects of this story.
Up to now, the controversy over these charges has been dismissed or swept under the rug, as a clash of personalities or the product of one of those intra-bureaucratic feuds so familiar to the Washington scene. Unfortunately, this is wishful thinking. The reality is much more serious. No one reading this document to its bitter end will confuse its claims and confirming evidence with those of a political cat fight. On the basis of the evidence assembled here, it seems beyond dispute that Grover Norquist has formed alliances with prominent Islamic radicals who have ties to the Saudis and to Libya and to Palestine Islamic Jihad, and who are now under indictment by U.S. authorities. Equally troubling is that the arrests of these individuals and their exposure as agents of terrorism have not resulted in noticeable second thoughts on Grover’s part or any meaningful effort to dissociate himself from his unsavory friends.
With more background information by David Horowitz, he then shares with the readers of Frontpage Magazine an expose by Frank Gaffney regarding Grover Norquist. Make sure you spread this story far and wide! This has been going on since at least 1998, yet people are refusing to face the facts and put our nation at risk because of political correctness. This is not the time for sensitivity training, people!
The association between Grover Norquist and Islamists appears to have started about five years ago, in 1998, when he became the founding chairman of an organization called the Islamic Free Market Institute, better known as the Islamic Institute. The Institute’s stated purpose was to cultivate Muslim-Americans and Arab-Americans whose attachment to conservative family values and capitalism made them potential allies for the Republican Party in advance of the 2000 presidential election.
If successful, such an outreach effort could theoretically produce a windfall in votes and campaign contributions. Consequently, it enjoyed the early support of Karl Rove, when he was then-Governor Bush’s political advisor, and who knew Norquist from their days in the College Republicans.
Michelle had this back in July of 2004.
The Washington Post reports that Abdurahman Alamoudi, once embraced as a “mainstream” and “moderate” Muslim activist who courted both the Clinton and Bush administrations, will plead guilty today to accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars from Libya in violation of U.S. law and attempting to hide it from the government.
Despite this defiant public declaration of support for terrorists, Alamoudi was welcomed in GOP elite circles at the behest of power player Grover Norquist.
More surprising and disturbing news at the Citizen Soldier:
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.
With all of this evidence, who’s going after Norquist besides Michelle Malkin back in 2004?
Norquist has also been exposed as the founder of the Islamic Institute, 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.
Copies of two checks from Alamoudi to the Islamic Institute:
Read the rest and pass it on. Get the message out there and let’s figure out a game plan to do something about it!
At Free Republic, they have an old piece from The New Republic, that was published in November of 2001.
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.
I want to know what the hell this man is doing now, and why is he in a position of influence when it’s a PROVEN fact that he’s working with the enemy (American muslim organizations who support terror!). I don’t understand some things about the Bush administration, and this is plainly one of them.
How can you be “tough on terror” on the one hand, but meeting with muslim leaders who support terror right in the white house on the other hand? This doesn’t make sense.
You know what it reminds me of…and this is kind of creepy. It reminds me of what Engels said about approving of war and bloodshed. (From John Ray at Marx & Friends in their own words)
Engels, London, December 15, 1887: “. . . No war is any longer possible for Prussia-Germany except a world war and a world war indeed of an extent and violence hitherto undreamt of. Eight to ten millions of soldiers will massacre one another and in doing so devour the whole of Eurepe until they have stripped it barer than any swarm of locusts has ever done. The devastations of the Thirty Years’ War compressed into three or four years, and spread over the whole Continent; famine, pestilence, general demoralisation both of the armies and of the mass of the people produced by acute distress; hopeless confusion of our artificial machinery in trade, industry and credit, ending in general bankruptcy; collapse of the old states and their traditional state wisdom to such an extent that crowns will roll by dozens on the pavement and there will be no body to pick them up; absolute impossibility of foreseeing how it will all end and who will come out of the struggle as victor; only one result is absolutely certain: general exhaustion and the establishment of the conditions for the ultimate victory of the working class.”
See more on Norquist here, here, here, here, here.
Cross posted at The Wide Awakes
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If Grover Norquist is a convert to Islam, his first allegiance is to the Nation of Islam–not to another entity.
I don’t have the link but there is some reason to believe Norquest has become a Muslim. Apparently he married devout Islamic women which would suggest he had to convert. When asked if he was now a Muslim he refused to answer saying it was none of anyone’s business.
Norquest is the worse case of an enemy sympathizer in our mists. A more benign and silly example is Jude Wanniski. Wanniski, a former editorial writer for the WSJ and influential in the supply-side movement of the late 70s and early 80s, writes glowingly of Islam here. Before you conclude he is only naïve and uninformed, look on his website and you’ll see a stream of past article defending Louis Farrakan.
I’ve talked about how some of our friends on the right have a tough time being critical of Islam. The left is in far worse shape but we still have to do some pruning in our ranks. Of course, part of the problem is the PC corruption that permeates our society; however, it’s also due to a wrongful application of ecumenicalism to Islam.
Great review of Norquest – let’s not let this be forgotten. Norquest doesn’t deserve a place at our table.
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This all is simply making me dizzy. To you, Mustang, and a host of others collating this disturbing info for us… hat’s off.