Month: August 2007

Will the door to the White House now slam on Grover Norquist?

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We are sure you haven’t missed today’s big news in Washington that Presidential Advisor Karl (give them amnesty) Rove is resigning at the end of the month.   But, does that mean that Americans for Tax Reform head, Grover Norquist, will lose his White House access?    According to Paul Sperry, Norquist and Rove are long-time pals.  In Sperry’s book Infiltration, the author begins a chapter about how on September 11, 2001 Rove had scheduled Norquist and eight Muslim leaders (some with questionable backgrounds) to meet with the President in hopes of getting the President to agree to “end the government’s use of classified evidence to deport suspected Arab terrorists.”

The meeting never happened because planes crashed into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon that fateful morning.  Again according to Sperry, Norquist took his group of  disappointed fellow Muslims back to his office. 

For more on Norquist see this post at Always on Watch in 2006.

So, our question at RRW is:  Will Norquist and friends be hotfooting it to the White House in the next couple of weeks to push for the Bush Administration to support opening the floodgates to tens of thousands of Iraqi Muslim refugees?   So far, the  Administration has maintained that the war is not over and that if the surge succeeds, Iraqis can go home to rebuild their country.

Going Away…

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     I’ll be away for a few days, but additional authors are joining this blog so maybe you will get some new perspectives in the coming days on the important community-changing issue of Refugee Resettlement.  

     If you are just beginning to learn about legal immigration reform, we have many posts since July 1 that will help you get started in your research, so please look back through our archives.  And, then plan to take action! 

Muslim Mayors coming to a city near you

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Yahya Hendi told Saudi academics on Sunday that Muslims in America are becoming part of the mainstream and by the year 2015 he anticipated that 30 American cities would have Muslim mayors.    His speech, delivered in Saudi Arabia, was discussed in a front page story in the Washington Times two days ago.

“There are serious efforts being made among the second and third generation to become part of the political establishment. The challenge we face is in the media and from some Christian extremists who don’t want an Islamic presence in America.”

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Mr. Hendi said U.S. Muslims were working on “nationalizing” Islam as part of the fabric of U.S. society, including cutting funding links to Muslim countries.

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“Last year, we elected the first Muslim to Congress, and I expect that by 2015, there will be three or four, as well as at least 30 mayors,” he said, adding that the number of Muslim lawyers in the United States has multiplied since September 11.

Hendi, for our Washington County readers is not only the Muslim Chaplain at Georgetown University as noted in his biography, but is Imam of the Islamic Society of Frederick.  He  participated with Washington County’s Interfaith Coalition in March of this year in Hagerstown.

According to his biography he also directs the PEACE office of the Muslim American Society.  The Muslim American Society sprung from the worldwide Muslim Brotherhood.     In the terrorism funding trial that began last week involving the Holy Land Foundation,  jurors heard tapes presented as evidence:

On one of the tapes, a Muslim Brotherhood leader implored Muslims in North America to do their part in “a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within.”

Hendi pretty much spells out the plan to his Saudi backers.     So, where do you think 30 cities will get enough Muslim population to elect Muslim mayors?   He admits in the Times article that they aren’t getting enough Muslim converts, so it strikes me that Muslim immigration might just be the ticket.

There is so much to say about this article, but perhaps other bloggers are doing it.   Can you imagine if some Catholic or Jewish leader was telling a foreign nation that they were working toward 30 (any number) Jewish mayors, or 30 Catholic mayors, all hell would break loose in the mainstream media!

Iraqi Muslim Refugees–go home (Part 2)

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Not too long ago we mentioned that Lincoln, Nebraska was bracing for a surge of Iraqi refugees, but it appears the surge is not materializing according to this article last Saturday in the Lincoln Journal Star.   Contractor Church World Services through its subcontractor  Luthern Refugee Services  indicated that Lincoln is one of 10 areas of the US set up as receiving areas for Iraqis.  

The contractors sound downright despondent to hear that the process is not moving along.     Afterall, 7000 refugees by September 30th is only a drop in the bucket compared to benevolent Sweden’s contribution.   We feel sorry for people too, right?  We like collecting the downtrodden.

But what if these 7000 Iraqis, and the hundreds of thousands of others who have run and hidden, were brave people?   What if they had the spirit that created America in 1776?   What if they were as determined as both the North and South were in our Civil War?  What if they were as brave as the Brits were facing Hitler?  Or, as daring as the Israelis were in the Six-Day War? 

What if……..they all went home to Iraq and told the foreign fighters [no, not fighters, Muslim cowards who deliberately kill children] to take their terrorism and leave.    We, Americans, have rid Iraq of the tyrant Saddam Hussein and given them an elected government.  It is now up to the Iraqis scattered across the globe to go home, take responsibility and make something of their country.   

The choice is theirs.  They can continue to suffer from the whining syndrome that seems to have gripped the whole world.  They can play the pathetic victim card like their Muslim compatriots at the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) or they can buck up.   A few years ago I gave a speech at Valley Forge Military Academy in which I told the cadets that what they become in life is up to them, not their parents, their teachers or circumstances in their lives.    The same is true here,  Iraq could be a beacon in the desert.

Or, the Muslim Iraqi refugees can hide out around the world living like parasites on the benevolence of  Christian and Jewish do-gooders.  Now wouldn’t that be a fitting end for the followers of Mohammed?