Is Grover Norquist an Islamist?

[KenH]

But being on the wrong side doesn't automatically make Mr. Norquist an Islamofascist or an anti-American sympathizer of them.

 

[fromtheright]

Perhaps not, but defending Islamofascists is but a fine line from being one.

 

[LadyEagle]

Taking The Pledge

First, there was The Pledge.

When he was 14 years old, Norquist says, he thought about the value of branding the Republican Party with a simple message: No new taxes. Sixteen years later, as head of a new group called Americans for Tax Reform, Norquist created the Taxpayer Protection Pledge: "I pledge to the taxpayers ... that I will oppose and vote against any and all efforts to increase taxes." Period.

Now, 210 House members, 37 senators, 1,200 state legislators and seven governors have signed The Pledge, which is seen by some as powerful politics and by others as a campaign stunt that ties lawmakers' hands.

Norquist's goals don't stop with taxes.

Tucked under the blotter on his desk is a slender gray sheet of paper with a dozen or so timelines plotted in his cramped penmanship. The chart starts with 1980 and extends to 2050.

Norquist starts a timeline when a party or president endorses a proposal and ends it when the goal is enacted. Welfare reform, for instance, started in 1980 with Ronald Reagan's endorsement and was completed in 1996 with Clinton's signature. National missile defense and a free-trade zone through the Americas are now underway.

What's ahead?

"The idea of moving to a color-blind society, a non-racial society where you don't ask people what their race is on a Census form — that starts in 2010," Norquist says. Other goals include converting Social Security and public pension programs into systems of investment accounts under individual control.

"The purpose is to remind ourselves you can't do 20 things at once," Norquist says of his timeline chart. "You always overestimate what you can do by Friday, and you always underestimate what you can do in five years."

Source: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2001-06-01-grover.htm

Additional sources which are conservative sources:

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/000318.htm

http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2425

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1409031/posts

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=11209

March 19, 2003 9:40 a.m.
Fight on the Right
“Muslim outreach” and a feud between activists.

In February, a long-simmering and mostly behind-the-scenes feud between two prominent conservatives, tax-reform advocate Grover Norquist and national-security expert Frank Gaffney, burst into the open. At issue was the conduct of Norquist's energetic campaign to bring Muslims into the Republican party. While Norquist argues that Muslim political participation will be a key part of the GOP's electoral strategy in coming years, Gaffney charges that aggressive outreach efforts to Muslim leaders have brought the party, and in particular the Bush White House, dangerously close to organizations that have in the past endorsed or, at the least, declined to condemn international terrorism. Among them are the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Muslim Public Affairs Council, the Islamic Society of North America, the American Muslim Council, and others whose representatives have been invited to meetings in the White House and with officials across the Bush administration.

Source: http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york031903.asp

And a WND article (which is right-wing, also):

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27801

There are many more out there, including a Newsmax article about this which was published last week.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/5/23/191739.shtml

 

[KenH]

I had already given a link for the National Review article. You need to pay better attention to what people post, LE.

 

[LadyEagle]

Well, I hope you are paying attention to the links I've posted and are reading them.

Isn't it interesting that Grover Norquist holds a meeting every Wednesday morning and the major players of the Republican party are in attendance to include Senator Frist, House Majority Leader Dennis Hastert, and others? One source says Grover Norquist isn't one of many players in Washington, DC, he IS the player.

I posted things unrelated to his Islamic ties so the reader could get the big picture of how he has had his fingers in MANY pies of the Republican Party and has had such a major influence. I've said it before and will say it again - a President of this country is but a puppet on a string - no matter who is sitting in the Oval Office.

I may have been wrong about Grover Norquist being #2. Perhaps he is #1 and Karl Rove is #2.

 

[KenH]

As long as Mr. Norquist is lobbying for the conservative cause I support him in meeting with whomever.

He also free to try to proselytize others as well if he is a Muslim, just as we can do the same as Christians.

 

[LadyEagle]

It is apparent you didn't read any of my links. Then again, maybe you did, and you don't care about his ties with terrorists. Whatever.

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/000318.htm

 

[KenH]

Then stop whining and have him arrested, LadyEagle, if he has violated the law.

Be a winner, not a whiner.

 

[LadyEagle]

I'm not whining - sounding the trumpet of alarm, futile as it is. When they do the Islamic call to prayer in your neighborhood five times a day, perhaps you'll have a different perspective, but it will be too late then.

 

[KenH]

In small town, southern Arkansas? Not likely.

 

[KenH]

Originally posted by LadyEagle:
sounding the trumpet of alarm

Okay. What would you have us and yourself to do?

 

[LadyEagle]

Prepare yourself for the inevitable.

 

[KenH]

Sorry, LE, I can't do that. I am neither a fatalist nor a quitter.

It's as I said, you need to be a winner, not a whiner.

Just remember that ant: There goes another rubber tree plant!

Just remember the little engine: I think I can, I think I can...

 

[LadyEagle]

 

[LadyEagle]

Originally posted by KenH:
In small town, southern Arkansas? Not likely.

It happened in a small town in Michigan - Hamtramck, to be exact. Population 23,000.

 

[KenH]

Southern Arkansas ain't Yankee land.

 

[Joseph_Botwinick]

Everyone hide under the nearest rock and cower in fear...the Muslims are coming...

Please spare me the melodrama.

Joseph Botwinick

 

[LadyEagle]

Read history. Then tell me what would happen in America if 1 million Muslims in the USA decided to go on jihad to take over this country. Our military is mostly overseas.

The Whahabi brand of Islam - the most militant kind, spawn of al Qaeda - has been successfully exported from Saudi Arabia. Most of the Islamic Learning Centers and mosques in the USA have been funded with Saudi money. It is this extreme brand of Islam that is just being noticed by the FBI, although it is well rooted in our society, and is the brand of Islam which Grover Norquist is involved with.

So, answer the question.

Are you prepared, in the event 1 million Whahabi Muslims decide to go on jihad (the fifth pillar of Islam) in the United States - are you prepared to see your wife and children tortured and then to be beheaded yourself? Or will you denounce Jesus Christ?

http://216.26.163.62/2003/ss_terror_06_27.html

http://freedomhouse.org/religion/news/bn2005/bn-2005-01-28.htm

[ May 31, 2005, 09:00 AM: Message edited by: LadyEagle ]

 

[Daisy]

What does "Islamist" mean, other than the belief that Islam is superior?

 

[LadyEagle]

Definition from Google: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&oi=defmore&q=define:Islamist

Definitions of Islamist on the Web:

is a term used to identify a Muslim fundamentalist.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/teach/alqaeda/glossary.html

advocate of political Islam and a socio-political order based on the Quran.
www.maoism.ru/alo/glossary.htm

A person or an organization using Islamic religious precepts to form a political ideology.
www.careerjournaleurope.com/columnists/styleandsubstance/glossary.html

Muslim: a believer or follower of Islam
www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn2.1

Islamism is a political ideology derived from the conservative religious views of Muslim fundamentalism. It holds Islam is not only a religion, but also a political system that governs the legal, economic and social imperatives of the state.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamist