Monday, August 09, 2010

Newsweek columnist says US funding mosque construction

From the American Thinker:
Truth, even in the tightly controlled prison of the Obama media complex, occasionally bursts forth like a swordfish cavorting on the waves of a golden August afternoon.

Newsweek, the Washington Post's former progressive stepchild, published an op-ed by Fareed Zakaria, the in-house lapdog for the Administration, extolling the virtues of building the Ground Zero Mosque. A couple of sentences demand a great deal more explanation.

To that end, early in its tenure the Bush administration began a serious effort to seek out and support moderate Islam. Since then, Washington has funded mosques, schools, institutes, and community centers that are trying to modernize Islam around the world.

We should be encouraging groups like the one behind this project, not demonizing them. Were this mosque being built in a foreign city, chances are that the U.S. government would be funding it.

Perhaps we all missed the memo where US taxpayers are gleefully funding Islamic "mosques, schools, institutes, and community centers" around the globe. Of course, US troops have restored hundreds of schools and community centers in Iraq and Afghanistan, but mosques and Islamic institutes? This seems very difficult to believe.

So, as an enraged and curious taxpaying citizen, I have a few questions for Mr. Zakaria, our Congress and this Administration. What are the locations, costs, and dates of construction of these US taxpayer-funded mosques and Islamic institutes? If some of these mosques were built in the America, didn't anyone contact the ACLU? (I would pay real money to be in "the room" during that discussion.) What particular piece of Congressional legislation authorized US taxpayer dollars to be spent on these mosques and Islamic institutes? Did our government apportion these funds fairly and equally between the Shi'a, Sunni, and Sufi sects of Islam?

4 comments:

Damien said...

Pastorius,

These are some good questions Pastorius. Even ignoring anything else, any government money going to build Mosques is a violation of the first amendment's establishment clause, so Liberal groups who devote themselves to defending it, should be very upset with it, for that reason alone.

Epaminondas said...

"trying to modernize Islam around the world."

Maybe these people should be reading Qutb, HE'S FRIGGIN MODERN

Pastorius said...

He's modern, but is he Postmodern?

;-)

Pastorius said...

Damien,
Liberals don't care so much about the Constitution, as they care about tearing down what they perceive to be the institutions which hold up American Power.

They believe Christianity is a pillar of the American Power system. Therefore, they hate Christianity, and they use the first amendment to tear it down.

They don't use the first amendment to tear down Islam, because they see Islam as another tool to tear down American Power.