Sharia Stimulus: US Taxpayers Funding Shovel-Ready Mosques Abroad
"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan, August 15, 1986.
There’s a lot that isn’t moving in the United States right now and government money is flowing like water in this Recovery Summer. But who knew that under Barack Obama similar subsidies would be extended to mosque maintenance in foreign lands? Caroline May at the Daily Caller reports:
Just a cursory search of the term “mosque” on the State Department’s list of “projects” reveals 26 examples of federal funds going to fund construction, renovation, and rehabilitation of various mosques abroad. The benefiting countries include Bulgaria, Pakistan, Mali, Tunisia, Afghanistan, Benin, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Albania, Egypt, Tunisia, the Maldives, Yemen, Turkmenistan, Tanzania, Uganda, Azerbaijan, Sudan, Serbia and Montenegro.
Money being fungible, wouldn’t it be interesting if some of the Islamist funding provided by the State Department’s U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation freed up other foreign cash later donated to our own Ground Zero Mosque project?
I guess that wall of separation thing so beloved by liberals only applies to churches.
However, American Islamic Forum for Democracy's Dr. Zuhdi Jasser objects:
“We have always felt this type of outreach is completely ineffective and that ultimately we have to approach it like the Cold War where we are fighting an ideology and we have to be poignantly open about what part of political Islam we are trying to change and modify,” Jasser said. “If we are going to have this long war of ideas we cannot fund these religious institutions. We can fund anti-Islamist institutions based in liberty.”
I think Dr. Jasser has it right. If we are going to subsidize Islam abroad, shouldn't we at least direct the funds towards friends of liberty?
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May '10
Re: Sharia Stimulus: US Taxpayers Funding Shovel-Ready Mosques Abroad
What's the subtle difference between "funding mosques in Pakistan" and "funding secret hideouts"? There's gotta be one.
And that fungibility of money issue has also resulted in our funding missiles for Hamas in Gaza and, soon, abortions through Obamacare.
May '10
Re: Sharia Stimulus: US Taxpayers Funding Shovel-Ready Mosques Abroad
If we're going to subsidize anything outside our borders, we should do so with honestly considered - and stated - intentions. But like Scott touched on, we won't even cut off Gaza when they've elected a governing party whose primary goal is Israel's eradication.
Seems that'd be a good starting point for overseas "aid:" does the recipient party want to murder our allies? If so, we should maybe consider not giving them a cent. I'm willing to bet this guideline would eliminate all funding for foreign mosques, straight out of the gate.
Jul '10
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I'm with James Madison on all forms of foreign aid.
In 1794, during a Congressional debate regarding extension of aid to French planters who had been expelled from Haiti by a murderous slave rebellion, he said,
"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that Article in the Federal Constitution which granted a right of Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."
The Constitution? Oh, that old thing?
Aug '10
Re: Sharia Stimulus: US Taxpayers Funding Shovel-Ready Mosques Abroad
I fervently hope that when our Great Awakening is completed we will refine the laws regarding treason. As it stands now, it's an almost impossible burden to prove. But we've learned in recent years that many of our own citizens bear so much malice towards the United States that they would gladly see us sunk, and merged with the E.U.,, the U.N., or some other world body. We are perilously close to losing our sovereignty and ending our existence as a country.
Re: Sharia Stimulus: US Taxpayers Funding Shovel-Ready Mosques Abroad
I thought the State Department was interested in promoting self-reliance. Can't the enemies of freedom at least fund their own nefarious schemes without a contribution from Uncle Sam?