Last week, Claudia Rossett reported that the 9-11 Imam has embarked on a State Department paid tour of the Middle East. Claudia asked if this might be a taxpayer subsidized funding raising trip to raise money for the 9-11 Mosque. Today, the story is receiving more attention in the New York Post. While the State Department acknowledges that they are paying for the Imam to travel on behalf of the United States they insist he cannot use the trip to raise money. But a London Arab language newspaper says that the Imam told them that he would be raising money. And Debra Burlingame is quoted as saying,
"Does the State Department have any idea they are sending a guy to the Middle East who is going to be fund-raising perhaps among the very same people he will be meeting with?" asked Debra Burlingame, a 9/11 family member.
"We know he has a fund-raising association with Saudi Arabia," Burlingame said, noting that the Saudis have contributed money to underwrite programs by the American Society for Muslim Advancement, a not-for-profit that Abdul Rauf runs with his wife and that is one of the sponsors of the Ground Zero mosque. "He's going to the well, and how can they say they do or don't know what he's doing?"
Whether he will or he won't raise money, why is a man who does not believe that Hamas is a terrorist organization and who holds the United States partially responsible for the 9-11 attacks traveling as a representative of the United States of America? This is outrageous.
Guest Comment: Talk about establishment of religion! Our Executive branch is violating the US Constitution. There should be a lawsuit filed to enjoin further payment.
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Best,
Aggie
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