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Home Front: Politix
Robert Spencer calls out Rick Perry
2011-11-22
... and Grover Norquist, for "enabling Muslim Brotherhood access to the highest levels of power in the U.S."
Posted by:ryuge

#10  She did, IIUC. So did his well connected paying clients.

Frank Gafney is another person who's warned about Norquist and the MB, FWIW.
Posted by: lotp   2011-11-22 17:15  

#9  Depending on who is writing about Norquist, he is either satan incarnate or a saint.

BTW, I thought Norquist's Muslim wife opposed the Ground Zero mosque.
Posted by: JohnQC   2011-11-22 17:07  

#8  "Why would Americans for Tax Reform," Wolf asked, "circulate a petition in support of the 'Ground Zero Mosque?'.

That one's easy. Cash.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2011-11-22 16:15  

#7  Here's what Rep. Frank Wolf (VA) has said about Norquist on the floor of the House:
"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.” He pointed out that “around the years 2000 and 2001, Mr. Norquist’s firm represented Abdurahman Alamoudi, who was convicted two years later for his role in a terrorist plot and who is presently serving a 23-year sentence in federal prison.”

Norquist, reported Wolf, “also associated with terror financier Sami Al-Arian​, according to Mary JacobyÂ’s reporting in March 2003, in the St. Petersburg Times. Al-Arian pled guilty in 2006 'to a charge of conspiring to provide services to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), a specially designated terrorist organization, in violation of U.S. law,' and is under house arrest, according to a Department of Justice press release. The Palestinian Islamic JihadÂ’s ‘paramilitary wing—the al-Quds Brigades—has conducted numerous attacks, including large-scale suicide bombings,Â’ according to the National Counterterrorism Center.”

These are the kinds of people for whom Norquist opened doors. Norquist, said Wolf, “served as a key facilitator between Al-Arian, Alamoudi and the White House. … In June 2001, Al-Arian was among the members of the American Muslim Council invited to the White House complex. ... The next month, the National Coalition to Protect Political Freedom—a civil liberties group headed by Al-Arian—gave Norquist an award for his work to abolish the use of secret intelligence evidence in terrorism cases.”

Wolf also pointed out that Norquist “even used Americans for Tax Reform to circulate a petition in support of the ‘Ground Zero Mosque,' ” which 70% of Americans oppose. “Why would Americans for Tax Reform,” Wolf asked, “circulate a petition in support of the ‘Ground Zero Mosque?’.

Posted by: lotp   2011-11-22 15:33  

#6  Spencer is not the only person to warn of Norquist's ties, nor was he the first.

From David Horowitz at CPAC

The Muslim Brotherhood Inside the Conservative Movement

The front groups that the Muslim Brotherhood​ set up were identified in the captured document. Among them were the Muslim Students Association, the Islamic Society of North America, the Muslim American Society, and the Council on American Islamic Relations or CAIR. The latter was set up to be a so-called civil rights organization whose purpose was to use the American Constitution to advance the BrotherhoodÂ’s aims....

The late Mahboob Khan was an American Muslim, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and one of the founders of the Muslim Students Association. He was also instrumental in creating the Islamic Society of North America. Mahboob KhanÂ’s widow today sits on the board of one of the regional organizations of the Muslim Brotherhood front CAIR.

Mahboob Khan also founded three mosques in California, which preach the totalitarian doctrines of the Brotherhood. In 1993 Mahboob Khan and one of his mosques hosted the “Blind Sheik​” Abdul Rahman just two months before the SheikÂ’s terrorist group blew up the World Trade Center, killing six people and wounding more than a thousand. In 1995 Mahboob Khan and his mosque in Santa Clara, California hosted and held a fund-raiser for Ayaman al-Zawahiri, a member of the Brotherhood and the number two man in al-Qaeda after Osama bin Laden.

The Muslim Brotherhood has been wildly successful in its plan to become part of AmericaÂ’s civil culture and to infiltrate the institutions of AmericaÂ’s civil government, including the White House and both political parties, and the conservative movement as well.

Suhail Khan is the proud son of Mahboob Khan and his protégé, as he is also the protégé of the convicted terrorist Abdurahman Alamoudi​.

Sponsored by his longtime patron Grover Norquist​, who has been a pillar of the conservative movement, Suhail Khan was given a White House appointment in the Bush Administration and facilitated AlamoudiÂ’s access to the president. Suhail then became an Undersecretary of Transportation where he received a top security clearance. With GroverÂ’s support Suhail has also been made a board member of the American Conservative Union and was the moderator of a panel on Religious Liberty yesterday at this event.

Suhail Khan​ used his offices in the Bush White House with GroverÂ’s connivance to carry water for the terrorist Sami al-Arian in an attempt to ban the use of secret evidence in terrorist trials – a proposal that thanks to GroverÂ’s immense political influence was actually endorsed by President Bush and was only thwarted by the 9/11 terror attacks.

That's only some of the specific, publicly articulated concerns that many have voiced about Norquist. The material is easily found online.

Posted by: lotp   2011-11-22 15:25  

#5  Spencer is best at revealing the quranic basis of jihad terror. Who else is doing it? Norquist makes money by coloring all carpet humpers as benign. He's a ___

Folks: when the quran sez "jihad is prescribed to you," every slave of allah takes notice. By ideology every muslim is a dangerous fanatic. When they have the numbers they crush those of different beliefs.
Posted by: Bill Schwarzeneggar4060   2011-11-22 13:39  

#4  Spot, you are spot on. If there is something Spencer is trying to say about Norquist, he ought to come out with it rather than condemn by innuendo.
Posted by: JohnQC   2011-11-22 12:28  

#3  Mr. Spencer went off the rails a while back. I used to read him; I don't anymore.
Posted by: Steve White   2011-11-22 09:03  

#2  Unfortunately, he never explains how Norquist supposedly "enables Muslim Brotherhood access to the highest levels...". If there's a case to be made, make it. Don't just throw out accusations.
Posted by: Spot   2011-11-22 08:15  

#1  It's the economy, stupid.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2011-11-22 06:56  

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