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From the Islamic Society of North America website:
Through a US State Department grant the Islamic Society of North America and the National Peace Foundation have co-sponsored a citizen exchange project between the United States and the Middle East. This program brings young professionals from the Middle East, specifically from Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, to the United States. The goal of this project is to explore Islam, the functions of Islamic institutions in the United States, and the activities of interfaith work. In return American professionals from the three Abrahamic faiths; Christianity, Judaism and Islam, will visit these countries in the Middle East to explore Islam and interfaith work as it is done in the respective countries. This program will run through 2009, with several upcoming exchanges in progress.
From "Islamic Groups Named in Hamas Funding Case," by Josh Gerstein in the New York Sun, June 4, 2007:
Federal prosecutors have named three prominent Islamic organizations in America as participants in an alleged criminal conspiracy to support a Palestinian Arab terrorist group, Hamas.Prosecutors applied the label of "unindicted co-conspirator" to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Islamic Society of North America, and the North American Islamic Trust in connection with a trial planned in Texas next month for five officials of a defunct charity, the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development.
While the foundation was charged in the case, which was filed in 2004, none of the other groups was. However, the co-conspirator designation could be a blow to the credibility of the national Islamic organizations, which often work hand-in-hand with government officials engaged in outreach to the Muslim community.
Apparently it isn't a blow to ISNA's credibility at all.
Madness.
Pipeline News and Andy McCarthy have more.
Posted by Robert at April 27, 2008 7:49 AM
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I wonder if our intelligence people will be able to turn any of these people to our side. Otherwise this just doesn't compute. But then again, the State Department does behave as if it is a tool of the jihadis more often than not.
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at April 27, 2008 10:15 AM
Item #12 for Sue Myrick's list?
Posted by: PRCS at April 27, 2008 10:23 AM
THe US gov't has no institutional memory. They think dialogue works. Then again professionals are coming here? What kind? Bomb makers? After all what kind of professionals are there in lands dominated by muslims? If their education is based on islam, then all they know is proselytizing.. I say send them home--all of them. Their aims are inimical to Western ways of life and thought.
Posted by: lonewolf at April 27, 2008 10:25 AM
There are no "3 abrahamic religons". It makes my blood boil when I see that tacit legitimization of islamic demonism.
There is the Judeo-Christian worldview AND, on the opposite side, there is the islamic worldview.
Those two blocks are at war with one another, and they will always be. While the tendency of Judaim and Christianity is to come together, despite the way they have treated each other in the past, with more damage to the Jewish people, the tendency between islam and the Judeo-Christian worldview is to for a larger gap to apear.
So stop the nonsense of "3 abrahamic religions".
Posted by: Crusader at April 27, 2008 4:44 PM
There has got to be something in the water in Washington DC.
Got to be.
And it makes allegedly intelligent, well-educated people really, REALLY, R-E-A-L-L-Y stupid.
Have you seen this article on Iraq (specifically regarding Arab deal-making, which involves major-league lying and intense efforts to screw the other guy over), by blogger orangeducks?
http://antiprotester.blogspot.com/2006/04/life-in-iraq-part-ii-civilization-of.html
He says "After being in this snake pit for some time, I find it absolutely hilarious that anyone thinks that "diplomacy" or "negotiations" or "agreements" with any Middle Eastern leader... can possibly result in anything productive. They have no reservations --none-- about lying about anything and everything. Their words and agreements mean absolutely nothing."
Posted by: A_Nonny_Mouse at April 28, 2008 1:06 AM
Crusader, I agree. Someone wrote to a local paper saying Abraham had nothing to do with Izlam and got an angry response saying basically there were lots of references to Abraham in the Koran. What about the fact that it was written 2+ millenia after Abraham's existence in reference to a moon deity?
Posted by: mjazzguitar at April 28, 2008 1:16 AM
That's insane!!!
Posted by: Jane at April 28, 2008 12:20 PM
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