US Spending $16,000 on Radical Ground Zero Victory Mosque Imam's Trip to Mideast
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, August 19, 2010, 4:48 PM
US taxpayers are forking out $16,000 to pay for Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf’s three-nation outreach trip to the Mideast. This is the same imam who is behind the Ground Zero Victory Mosque and who blamed the US for the 9-11 attacks.
Via Breitbart:
AP News reported:
American taxpayers will pay the imam behind plans for a mosque near the Manhattan site of the Sept. 11 attacks $3,000 in fees for a three-nation outreach trip to the Middle East that will cost roughly $16,000, the State Department said Wednesday.
The department said Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf will get a daily $200 honorarium for the 15-day tour to Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, which is intended to promote religious tolerance.
Airfare is included, as well as the standard federal government per diem for expenses and lodging in each of the cities he will visit, spokesman P.J. Crowley said. Those per diem rates range from nearly $400 to nearly $500, according to official documents.
The imam’s organization, The Cordoba Initiative, referred questions on the matter to the State Department.
Rauf starts his tour Thursday in Bahrain and ends it in the United Arab Emirates Sept. 2. At each stop he is expected to discuss Muslim life in America and promote religious tolerance. He will not be allowed to raise funds for the mosque on the trip, Crowley said.
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Published May 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm - 91 Comments
manateespirit commented:
Watching Bret Baier right now. Just finished a panel discussion about 1 in 5 Americans believing Obama is a Muslim. One panelist was rather surprised it was this high and there was intense interest…
Really? It should be a higher percentage with stories like this…why are we paying for a radical cleric to represent America? Why does Obama put his two cents in on the mosque? Why does he appear at Islam dinners but not on the Day of Prayer? And she is surprised voters are suspicious of his religious orientation that colors his judgments and directs his decisions?
Rachelle commented:
And they say Obama isn’t a muslim?
We are paying for this seditious iman’s trip and we are paying to rebuild mosques around the world.
Any chance our government will pay to rebuild churches destroyed by muslims in the Balkans or Pakistan?
Not with Iman Obama in charge.
down with dems commented:
We just spent a $MILLION$ or so to send Obama around the country fundraising for the Democrats… what’s another $16,000 down the drain?
Separation of church and state BE DAMNED when it comes to building a Triumph Mosque to Islam at Ground Zero.
Granny commented:
This is the THIRD such trip we have paid for for this particular imam.
Granny commented:
Oh and one other thing: have you noticed that every single story about 1 in 4 American believing that Obama is a muslim includes the premise that this idea is false? Even Fox!
Elmo commented:
Run (yeah, I said RUN) .. do not walk
[eight minute (flashplayer) audio console].
http://live.radioamerica.org/loudwater/player.pl?upload=6619&name=wnd
Just do it (wuud I lie to you?)
mpw280 commented:
We are funding his fund raising trip so he has the 100 million it supposedly will take to build something so immensely unpopular with the rest of the population. Got to love the government, they can screw anything up. mpw
Militant Conservative commented:
Keep going imam Barak Hoover Obama. Your making a complete idiot of yourself all by yourself. Powder is dry.
aro5o75 commented:
Granny #5,
Yes, it’s an Alinsky tactic: repeat a lie enough it becomes fact.
Granny commented:
aro5075 – Alinsky didn’t come up with that. Don’t give him so much credit. This is just standard socialist/communist tactics. It was actually Goebbels, the ultimate propagandist, who came up with the “repeat a lie” line.
I’m just REALLY surprised to see Fox presenting it in quite this way, though I am well aware that Fox is nowhere near as fair or balanced as they would like us to believe.
Patman commented:
Figures.
We’re also paying for Obama’s vacations, golf, endless campaigning and very, very, very bad decisions. Every day.
Elly commented:
Someone should just ask ~
Barry, who is it you pray to, God or allah?
Then sit back and watch the chips fall.
squeaky commented:
from jawa report……..
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/203655.php
aro5o75 commented:
Granyn–no doubt about it, Goebbels was the godfather of propaganda…..Alinsky just marketed the home version.
As far as Fox news’ presentation goes, remember… they got a front seat at the Goobert Gibbs show.
aro5o75 commented:
sorry Granny… Granny not Granyn
squeaky commented:
["The dialogue is not proceeding well because of the two-facedness of most Muslim interlocutors on the one hand and the gullibility of well-meaning Western idealists on the other," Bassam Tibi said Tuesday in an interview with United Press International.] how many congresscritters and the like signed on to a department of peace [during Bush adm] and how ironic is it that peace has a totally different meaning to islamic foes – you’d think the braintrusts in washington would check to see if the other side was using the same dictionary.
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/6/19/144341.shtml
Subadar Lal Kukhri commented:
This November, the free and great American people are going to vote out the imbecile Congress and the Obama-worshipping morons are going to have a stroke.
Chippy commented:
We will lose our country within with this policy. That’s why this regime is supporting it and funding it. 911 is not about remembering and respecting to this gang, it’s about punishing America again. The attack from muslim extremists never ends. We have Ayers, people from the Carnegie Group, The Annenberg Challenge and Obama using 911 to continue to bring down this country.
BillyBob57 commented:
Don’t forget to mention that this “trip” will likely be on a USAF exec jet or the State Department’s use of the USAF B757 that Shrillary flies on.
This is so frigging unbelievable.
Listen up commented:
We are getting dumb and dumber while our enemies laugh at us. They play us like a fine fiddle.
WAKE UP AND TAKE BACK THE NATION!
Hedgehog commented:
Revoke his passport while there is still time!
Chippy commented:
Hillary’s, State Department and Bill’s, Global Initiative project should be investigated big time. They are both world swindlers.
Steve commented:
I agree with mpw280…it appears we are paying this Imam’s travel expenses so he can raise money for his mosque.
bg commented:
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i don’t believe it, the Obama’s pay more to fly in their chefs..
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