US spending $16,000 for imam's Mideast tour

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WASHINGTON – American taxpayers will pay the imam behind plans for a mosque near the Manhattan site of the Sept. 11 attacks $3,000 in fees for a three-nation outreach trip to the Middle East that will cost roughly $16,000, the State Department said Wednesday.

US spending $16,000 for imam's Mideast tour - Yahoo! News
 

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It makes sense. There's a problem with extremist Muslims in the middle east. A way to assist in fixing that problem is to get those extremists to moderate their position and/or bolster the existing moderates . A way to assist in doing that is to promote a well known moderate leader.
 
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Gee, isn't there supposed to be a separation of church and state?

If he wants to volunteer his time, fine.
Why is the government paying for this-or any other trip involving religion?

Him working at the White House is not an endorsement of Islam by the United States; he's a spokesperson to Muslims who see the US as shaytaan. Just like Judaism encompasses ones's whole life, Islam is the same. We have Rabbis that do visits to Israel for the United States. I'm pretty sure there's a Catholic member of the Archdiocese somewhere on the government's payroll.
 
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It is a Victory Tour.

More triumphalism. Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda and the rest of them will see the Iman who is building a mosque on the spot where 3,000 were killed by jihadists being ferried around the mideast by Obama and his State Department.

The message could not be more clear.
 
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From the link in the OP:
Crowley said this will be Rauf's fourth U.S.-government sponsored trip under a program run by the State Department's Bureau of International Information Programs. Earlier, the State Department had said it was his third trip.


Crowley said Rauf had traveled twice to the Middle East in 2007 during the Bush administration and once earlier this year.​


Of course, it is only a scandal now...
 
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