Ridiculous: Department of Homeland Security supports group that’s protesting Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week
posted at 4:16 pm on October 26, 2007 by Bryan
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Lately it’s felt like Xavier Solana or some other shadowy international bureaucrat snuck in and stole our government. Solomonia puts us on the trail of a group called Pathways – Tufts Interfaith Initiative. They protested Daniel Pipes’ appearance last night at Tufts University as part of the Young America’s Foundation’s Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week and were signatories to a flier that denounced the event and called Pipes and everyone else involved in IFAW “bigots.” From an article in the Tufts Daily:
“I think that it’s very sad that we have people that are attacking an entire religion. … I’m here to say this is something that is objectionable and not useful,” said Hossam Aljabri, the president of the Boston Muslim American Society.
Still, all of the demonstrators supported Pipes’ right to speak.
“There is room for dialogue,” Aljabri said. “I am all for free speech.”
According to Shai Fuxman, a facilitator of Pathways, an interfaith initiative at Tufts, they were not there to protest, but to “demonstrate in a very peaceful and respectful manner.”
Fine, “demonstrate in a very peaceful and respectful manner” against a scholar (whom you called a bigot) who is trying to wake you up to reality.
Or…Pathways might already be aware of the reality.
In any case, the Department of Homeland Security is funding an interfaith group that’s out opposing a man who wants to foster moderate Islam and thereby fight terrorists…why?
You can read the rest of the article at the link above, and revel in seeing your tax dollars at work.
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Federal bureaucracy at its best.
libertytexan on October 26, 2007 at 4:21 PM
Homeland Insecurity
Kini on October 26, 2007 at 4:27 PM
My tax $$$ being used by our government for something that is geometrically opposed to the will of the American people…say it ain’t so Joe.
(My sarcasim switch turned in the “on” position)
Sgt. Khe Sahn
1GooDDaDDy on October 26, 2007 at 4:37 PM
Nice catch on that one, but if you look at all the places this tour has hit this week the thing to look for is all the other groups that have led the charge and did all the organizing against the speakers involved.
A summation of all that and how they link together would make an excellent post to expose how they work.
CommentGuy on October 26, 2007 at 4:39 PM
…government of the Koran, by the Koran, for the Koran…
It’s coming–soon. All in the name of “political correctness.”
mojojojo on October 26, 2007 at 4:42 PM
In Canada, they’re handing out hajibs so college girls can understand how awful it is to be stared out and share a little of the female Muslim experience.
tree hugging sister on October 26, 2007 at 4:46 PM
I want my money back.
Maxx on October 26, 2007 at 5:13 PM
“Grant writing” — I first heard that phrase about 25 years ago, when somebody I went to college scored a job at a non-profit. There are people who do almost nothing else for a living, except to sit around writing grants seeking either taxpayer money or foundation money to support whatever useless boondoggle they want to foist on an unwilling world.
If there is no legitimate market demand for something — e.g., photos of crucifixes in urine, radical feminist “performance art,” ethanol — an army of grant-writers stands ready to solicit funding to force it down our throats.
“Looters,” Ayn Rand called them.
Ali-Bubba on October 26, 2007 at 5:20 PM
And the agenda driven foundations sit back and say we don’t have to go looking for useful idiots help our cause we only have to wait and they will come to us.
CommentGuy on October 26, 2007 at 5:45 PM
It’s very sad that so many people find inspiration from a religion to do violence on a daily basis. Go explain to them how they’ve got it all wrong Hossam.
forest on October 26, 2007 at 6:23 PM
Our American government supporting the enemy.
What else is new?
madmonkphotog on October 26, 2007 at 7:28 PM
Talk about foxes in the henhouse! It doesn’t look good for our side. The hits just keep on comin’.
countywolf on October 26, 2007 at 7:49 PM
Mars colony, I’m tellin’ ya people. It’s the only way to go.
- The Cat
MirCat on October 27, 2007 at 12:13 AM
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