Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Grover Norquist's Outreach to Islam and Arabs


Grover Glenn Norquist He has long been active in building bridges between various ethnic and religious minorities and the free-market community through his co-founding of the Islamic Free Market Institute,[31Norquist has described himself as a "boring white bread Methodist".[3] In 2004, at age 48, he married a Palestinian Muslim named Samah Alrayyes,[49][50] a Kuwaiti PR specialist who was formerly a director of the Islamic Free Market Institute and specialist at the Bureau of Legislative and Public Affairs at United States Agency for International Development (USAID).


Grover Norquist’s New Muslim Protégé | FrontPage Magazine
Imad Ramadan is just the latest of a series of Muslim protégés discovered and promoted by Republican activist Grover Norquist,  the man whose vicious personal attacks on conservative Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma over ethanol subsidies earlier this year (Norquist favored the corporate hand-outs; Coburn opposed them) prompted Coburn’s chief of staff to respond that Norquist has become the “chief cleric of sharia tax law.”
What’s wrong with Muslims running for public office or assuming prominent positions in the conservative movement? Nothing at all – as long as they are clear about the primacy of the U.S. Constitution over Koranic (or Sharia) law.
Where does Imad Afif “David” Ramadan stand on this crucial question? The answer is – well, unclear. And that’s when the camel begins to spit.
In his campaign literature, Ramadan touts his respect for the U.S. Constitution, his love of America, and his “story” as an immigrant from Lebanon living the American dream.
But nowhere does he mention why he really left Lebanon, or why he came to America. Nor does he tell us anything about what it was like to grow up as a Shiite Muslim in Beirut in the midst of a sectarian civil war, when the Islamic Republic of Iran dominated the Shiite community through a large variety of proxy organizations, from the Hezbollah and Islamic Amal militias to local health clinics and schools.

Grover Norquist's Strange Alliance With Radical Islam








  • On the afternoon of September 26, George W. Bush gathered 15 prominent Muslim- and Arab-Americans at the White House. With cameras rolling, the president …It was a critically important moment, a statement to the world that America's Muslim leaders unambiguously reject the terror committed in Islam's name.
    Unfortunately, many of the leaders present hadn't unambiguously rejected it. To the president's left sat Dr. Yahya Basha, president of the American Muslim Council, an organization whose leaders have repeatedly called Hamas "freedom fighters." Also in attendance was Salam Al-Marayati, executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, who on the afternoon of September 11 told a Los Angeles public radio audience that "we should put the State of Israel on the suspect list." And sitting right next to President Bush was Muzammil Siddiqi, president of the Islamic Society of North America, who last fall told a Washington crowd chanting pro-Hezbollah slogans, "America has to learn if you remain on the side of injustice, the wrath of God will come." Days later, after a conservative activist confronted Karl Rove with dossiers about some of Bush's new friends, Rove replied, according to the activist, "I wish I had known before the event took place."
    If the administration was caught unaware, it may be because they placed their trust in one of the right's most influential activists: Grover Norquist...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."

    ... During the 2000 campaign, Norquist urged Karl Rove to focus on the Muslim vote--pointing to, among other things, the thousands of Muslims in the key state of Michigan. By all appearances, the Bush campaign heeded Norquist's advice.
    When Bush won, Norquist credited the Muslim strategy. "Bush's talk about outreach and inclusion had extraordinary results--the Muslim community went 2-1 for Bill Clinton in 1996 and almost 8-1 for Bush in 2000," he told The Washington Times. (That statistic is almost certainly untrue, and Bush actually lost Michigan, the state where Muslims are most heavily concentrated.) Or, as Norquist put it in the Spectator, "George W. Bush was elected President of the United States of America because of the Muslim vote."

    Norquist hasn't only developed close ties to American groups that apologize for terror. He has also flacked for at least one Middle Eastern autocracy: Qatar. Eager to improve relations with the United States, Qatar worked with Norquist and Saffuri to help portray itself as a liberal outpost in the Islamic world.






























  • Grover Norquist and the undermining of conservatism and America, a tale of greed and sedition. Grover is best known for founding Americans For Tax Reform, at the request of President Ronald Reagan, in 1985. Mr. Norquist has also been executive director of the College Republicans and the National Taxpayers Union. Grover worked as an economist and Chief Speech Writer at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. But, Norquist was also active in global politics as well, including his work within the support network for Col. Oliver North. Norquist has had his fingers in the Islamic Free Market Institute, the advisory board for GOProud, a conservative group that promotes the conservative agenda, for homosexuals, straights, transgendered and their advocates, as well as the American Conservative Union, which sponsors the Conservative Political Action Conference, also known as CPAC. Grover is married to Samah Alrayyes, a Muslim and former director of the Islamic Free Market Institute.
    Suhael Khan, an affiliate of the Muslims For America, and member of the board at the ACU, which sponsors CPAC, has, along with Norquist, been accused of being influence peddlers for the Muslim Brotherhood, a radical Islamic group, based in Egypt, but with global reach and the desire to turn America into an Islamic Caliphate. Khan, whose father ran a large mosque in Santa Clara California, that catered to Osama Bin Ladens number two Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, was on President George W. Bush’s staff at the time of the September 11, 2001 attacks but was quickly moved to the Department of Transportation afterwards. Norquist is said to have been the one who got Khan into the White House. Khan has also been an advisor to CAIR, the Council on American Islamic Relations, an un-indicted terror co-conspirator, Hamas front group and Muslim Brotherhood affiliate.
    According to author Paul Sperry, many in Congress have no idea Khan is a Muslim and affiliated with anti-American groups. Norquist is an enabler for the advancement of Sharia Law in America, providing access to government officials that these jihad affiliated Muslims would not have access to without him. What Mr. Norquist is doing should cause alarm in the conservative community. Grover is contributing materially to the advancement of Sharia Law in America and his actions meet the definition of sedition.




















































































  • Grover Norquist headlines conference with regional leader of Hamas-linked CAIR and Muslim Brotherhood-linked coauthor of defamatory "Islamophobia" report

    Just last week, Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) called out Norquist on the House floor for, among other things, his jihad ties. For more on Norquist, see Pamela Geller's exhaustive expose here. For more on Dawud Walid of Hamas-linked CAIR, see the IPT report here. For more on Muslim Brotherhood-linked Wajahat Ali, see here. And for the truth about the "Fear, Inc." smear piece on "Islamophobia," see here.
    Now that Rick Perry is fading away, maybe some of the people who used to be very concerned about Grover Norquist's jihad connections, but who suddenly discovered that they weren't important after all as soon as he began palling around with Perry, will remember the reasons why they originally concluded that Norquist's influence was a negative thing. "Grover Norquist headlined conference with CAIR leader: Anti-tax crusader also featured with author of 'exposé' of 'Islam-bashing network,'" from WND, October 14:
    Grover Norquist, perhaps the best-known conservative anti-tax campaigner, was a headliner at an Islamic leadership conference along with the director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations' Michigan branch and the co-author of a report that slanders critics of radical Islam, including Robert Spencer, Daniel Pipes and Steven Emerson. Norquist, famous for his no-tax-increase pledge, was featured along with CAIR-Michigan Executive Director Dawud Walid and Wajahat Ali, co-author of "Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America," at the National Leadership Conference in Detroit Sept. 30 to Oct. 2, sponsored by the Arab American Institute.
    Ali's book claims to expose "the Islam-bashing network in America," targeting Frank Gaffney and David Yerushalmi of the Center for Security Policy, along with Spencer, director of Jihad Watch; Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum; and Emerson, director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism.
    Last week, Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., denounced Norquist from the House floor for his "unsavory" connections, including ties to known terrorist financiers Abdurahman Alamoudi and Sami Al-Arian, his support for the Ground Zero mosque and his advocacy for transferring Guantanamo detainees to U.S. soil.
    "Simply put," said Wolf, "I believe Mr. Norquist is connected with or has profited from a number of unsavory people and groups out of the mainstream."
    "Documentation shows that he has deep ties to supporters of Hamas and other terrorist organizations that are sworn enemies of the United States and our ally Israel," said Wolf.
    Norquist called Wolf's speech a "hissy fit" and "a compilation of whack job criticisms," arguing the congressman is one of only six Republican members of the U.S. House who has refused to sign ATR's no-tax pledge.
    The congressman did not back down from his remarks, however, asserting, "There's a clear pattern there. You need to look at who he's associated with."
    One workshop at the Arab American Institute conference, titled "Defeating Hate Legislation: From Arizona Copycats to Sharia," discussed "the rampant emergence of hate legislation, including the Arizona copycat laws and Sharia bans now in nearly two dozen states across the country."
    Norquist, founder of Americans for Tax Reform, was considered to be a major influence on President George W. Bush's view of Islam in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, notes Atlas Shrugs blogger and WND columnist Pamela Geller, convincing the president that Islam is a "religion of peace."
    Norquist's office has not responded to WND's request for comment.

















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    The Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrates the GOP
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    Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Paul Sperry, a Hoover Institution​ media fellow and author of Infiltration and Muslim Mafia. The latter, co-authored with P. David Gaubatz, exposes the radical Muslim Brotherhood​ and its fronts in the United States.

    FP: Paul Sperry, welcome to Frontpage Interview.

    Sperry: Always a pleasure, Jamie. Quick congratulations on another commendable work, Showdown With Evil.

    FP: Thank you Paul.

    I would like to talk to you today about how the Muslim Brotherhood penetrates the Republican Party and especially the latest disturbing evidence you have on Grover Norquist​ and Suhail Khan in this context. As you know, David Horowitz​ called out both Khan and Norquist on this issue in his speech at CPAC on Feb. 12, 2011.

    First, let’s begin with your knowledge of the Muslim Brotherhood’s penetration of the United States in general and what you know about it its front groups on our soil.

    Sperry: Thanks Jamie.

    As you know, the Brotherhood is a worldwide jihadist movement based in Cairo. It’s the parent of Hamas and al-Qaida and the source of most of the jihadist ideology and related terror throughout the world today. After 9/11, FBI agents discovered the founding archives of its U.S. operations during a raid of a terrorist suspect’s home in Annandale, Va. The secret papers revealed that the Brotherhood, which was set up in America with millions in Saudi cash, has a plan to “destroy” America and other Western nations “from within,” and is using its agents and front groups in the U.S. to carry out that strategy.

    The secret papers also revealed that virtually every major Muslim group in America is a front for the radical Brotherhood, and they’ve raised millions of dollars for Hamas and al-Qaida right here inside America. They also control most of the major mosques, including the 9/11 mosque just outside Washington that found housing for some of the hijackers and helped prepare them for their martyrdom operation.

    FP: What’s been done about them?

    Sperry: Until recent years, their leaders operated with virtual impunity. But 9/11 broke the PC handcuffs on investigators. Several major U.S. Brotherhood figures — including Abdurahman Alamoudi​, Shukri Abu Baker, Mohammad El-Mezain, Anwar Awlaki​, Sami al-Arian — are now either behind bars or dead. Major front groups have been blacklisted as unindicted co-conspirators. And a key front, CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations), which we expose in our book, has been banned by the FBI from outreach functions and stripped by the IRS of its nonprofit status following our investigation. But the handcuffs haven’t come off completely.

    FP: And that’s when Khan enters the picture?
    Sperry: Right. Alamoudi sponsored Khan — Khan being the eldest son of one of the founding fathers of the Brotherhood in America. Norquist got Khan into the Bush White House as the gatekeeper for Muslims, whereupon he got al-Arian and other senior Brotherhood figures past security.

    FP: What were they trying to do?
    Sperry: The top of their agenda was convincing the president to eliminate the Justice Department’s use of undisclosed evidence in deportation cases against Arabs suspected of terrorism. On the eve of 9/11, Norquist personally went to the Hill and lobbied to, in his words, “get rid of the secret evidence laws which have been used to discriminate against Muslims and Arabs in this country.” After 9/11, he and his Islamic Institute lobbied against the Patriot Act. He didn’t miss a beat trying to deny law enforcement the tools they need to crack down on Muslim terrorists, even after they slaughtered 3,000 Americans and attacked the Pentagon.
    ...
    FP: How dangerous is Grover Norquist?
    Sperry: Very dangerous. Here you have a “conservative” who built the Trojan Horse that the enemy is using to infiltrate, sabotage and destroy the U.S. from within. Norquist is helping the U.S. Brotherhood accomplish the “Grand Jihad” spelled out in its founding archives. In fact, he’s helping pull them through the gates. I think it’s fairly plain now that he knows he’s undermining U.S. security, and that he’s doing so in a time of war.
    FP: So why is he still accepted in conservative circles?
    Sperry: Some Republican leaders are starting to speak out publicly against him, lawmakers like Coburn and Wolf (although Wolf endorsed his protégé Ramadan after Ramadan gave him $4,700 in campaign cash). But others still see him as just a small-government libertarian who wants to widen the GOP tent. Make no mistake: Norquist is not some random deficit hawk eyeing the bloated defense budget for cuts. Nor is he some innocuous misguided Ron Paul dove. He’s something far different, far more pernicious. He’s virulently anti-military, anti-borders, anti-security. He’s a saboteur aiding and abetting groups hostile to U.S. interests. And now that he’s married to a Muslim, I doubt money is the only motivating factor behind his decidedly anti-American behavior.
    If by now Republicans can’t smell a rat — a Pied Piper of rats, no less — they have failed miserably in their constitutional duty to “defend the constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic.” If the Republican Party can’t stop an Islamist Fifth Column within its own ranks, my word, we’re all doomed.



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    Anti-Israel Pro-Jihad Grover Norquist Wants Anti-Israel Ron Paul to Speak at Convention

    Speaking of subversives and Muslim Brotherhood operatives, Grover Norquist wants Ron Paul to speak at the GOP convention.
    Finally, Alamoudi's GOP puppet, Grover Norquist, has an anti-Israel candidate he can support. Grover's "tax reform" mask began crumbling long ago ('Ah, that little farce you played with my sister. You think that would fool a Corleone?').
    Notice where Grover wrote his call for a Paul speech, in the notoriously Jew-hating Brit newspaper, The Guardian. Perf.
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    Writing in the British Guardian, anti-tax activist Grover Norquist said Republicans will have no choice but to let Rep. Ron Paul speak at the GOP convention. Paul's positions -- especially his views on foreign policy and America's "empire" abroad -- have alienated many in the GOP establishment.
    Previously at Atlas:

    Friday, March 09, 2007
    CONSERVATIVES MUST SHUN NORQUIST
    NOT ANN COULTER
    It is outrageous  that the conservative movement continues to excoriate and shun Ann Coulter, but  embrace Grover Norquist, an Islamic terror enabler and facilitator.Grover was a kingpin at CPAC.  He is the one that ought to be banished. He emerged unscathed from his ties to Jack Abramoff  as well as allegedly money laundering charges. But his  Muslim outreach to groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is particularly disturbing.  This man is influencing the White House. Be afraid. Read about his terror ties here

    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
    Norquist  has also been exposed as the founder of the Islamic Insitute, 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. The Islamic Institute's website lists the following goals
    1. Cultivate and expand Muslim activists and mobilize the  community at the state and federal levels on issues affecting the American Muslim community.
    2. Provide  a platform to promote an Islamic perspective on domestic          issues (social and fiscal) to help enhance the Muslim  community's input in the decision-making process.
    3. Run   aggressive campaigns at the state and federal levels on  issues affecting the American Muslim community.   
    Wahhabi Islam funding from Saudi Arabia appears to have been  instrumental is creating and and sustaining a large number of organizations involved in such troubling activities as
    1. Recruiting felons into Islam in U.S. prisons
    2. Recruiting U.S. military personnel         
    3. Proselytizing on more than 500 college campuses across the  United States   
    4. Covertly raising funds for terrorist groups through U.S.-based Muslim charities 
    5. Providing financial support - and gaining control - of 70-80 percent of U.S. mosques, an
    6. Setting up private Muslim K-12 schools to indoctrinate U.S. Muslims  into fundamentalist Islam (We ran an expose on one of these  located just a few miles from our HQ which you can find at here.
    Norquist's relationship with Muslim groups that support terrorism became public after Norquist launched an unexpected and inexplicably vitriolic attack against Frank Gaffney, the President of the Center for Security Policy.
    Please read it all. On April 2, 2005, Norquist married Palestinian Samah Alrayyes. She had been the director of communications at the Islamic Free Market Institute, which Norquist founded. She is now a Public Affairs Specialist for Arab and Muslim outreach at the Bureau of Legislative and Public Affairs


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