Yes, fresh from denouncing America on national television as a place rife with “hate of Muslims,” a place so Islamophobic that “it’s beyond Islamophobia,” Daisy Khan, co-planner of the Ground Zero mosque project, will soon be hopping a plane at taxpayer expense, courtesy of the State Department, to jet from New York to the United Arab Emirates and deliver to the Emiratis her views about Muslim life in America.
This is what the State Department calls “public diplomacy” — a program that enlists about 1,200 Americans each year to fly with plenty of leg room to foreign lands and tell folks over there what it’s like to live in America. You might think a lot of these junkets would by now be redundant, in a world so interconnected that the Fort Hood shooter took cues from an imam in Yemen. But then, the web just doesn’t have the zing of international business class and $496 per diems.
For Daisy Khan’s circle, State’s public diplomacy program is a boom industry. (So are a lot of things for Khan & partners right now, subject of my latest column, Cashing In On Ground Zero). Khan’s husband and “bridge-building” partner, the man behind the Ground Zero mosque, Imam Feisal Adbul Rauf, is already on a more extensive State Department tour. After stops in Bahrain, where he has just been, and Qatar, where he will be this week, Rauf will meet up with Khan in the UAE, from Aug. 29-Sept.2. His trip will cost U.S. taxpayers $16,000. Hers will cost $12,000.
(Hmmm. I flew out to the UAE this spring, spent more time there than they plan to, spent another two weeks in Turkey, stayed in some very pleasant hotels, hired cars, ate well, and somehow it all came to significantly less than Khan’s trip alone… next time, I’ve got to get this right. Or maybe someone ought to take a closer look at the State Department budget?)
If you want slightly more detail about the Rauf-Khan trip to the UAE, the U.S. Embassy in Abu Dhabi has posted an announcement on its web site . But don’t get your hopes up that you’ll learn anything there about who Rauf and Khan will actually be seeing, as they build their “people to people” ties. Most details of these public outreach trips are kept secret from the American public.
Anyway, there you have it — for all those American taxpayers who caught Daisy Khan’s Sunday rant on ABC TV’s “This Week,” don’t bother looking for her on the U.S. talk shows next Sunday. She’ll be checking into an Abu Dhabi hotel, on your dime, to share her views with a Middle Eastern audience.
Early Morning Swim: The Daily Show Exposes the Fox News Connection to Radical Islam!
http://firedoglake.com/2010/08/24/early-morning-swim-the-daily-show-exposes-the-fox-news-connection-to-radical-islam/
“News Corp. is not just a beneficiary of Prince Al-waleed’s dough. It has also invested $70 million in his Saudi media conglomerate. And Prince Al-Waleed is not just a $3 billion stakeholder in News Corp. He’s also a backer of that same Imam Rauf. As Yahoo News reports, Prince Al-Waleed has directly funded two of Rauf’s projects to the tune of more than $300,000.”
Since it is so rotten over here, per Daisy, maybe she should just cash in the return trip and stay over there where she will not run into so called Islamophobia. With her attitude I would like to have a transcript of each and every contact with people. I would like to insure that I get my $$$ worth for her so called good will! Just how many Christians have been sent to these countries or for that matter other Christian countries to do what Daisy is suppose to be doing. I volunteer to go vist the Messianic Jewish congregations in Israel.
The really good news is that if we can get control of our government back from this kleptocracy we can probably fund a full economic recovery just from cutting out their incredibly wasteful spending.
Screw a Civil War it’s time for a all out Revolution on these Traitor’s in the Government.
This tops it. It’s time to stop paying federal taxes
when your money is spent on a war that’s not wanted,on
religious junkets sponsored by the State Dept. for people
seeking to destroy our way of life,on a government that
ignores the wishes of the majority.
It is past time for a major revolt that starves the
beast that haunts our Constitution.
Now you see why obama added about 16,000 new IRS agents to the agency.
It pisses me off that we’re paying one dime for these stealth jihadists. Boy are they laughing behind our backs!
Of course, it’s with the blessing of the muslim-in-chief.