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A Troubling Influence: Grover Norquist and Extreme Islam
This is long and important article. For those of you familiar with Grover Norquist, you will fully appreciate the dynamics at work. To those of you who are not familiar with Grover Norquist, this is an important article. EFL The association between Grover Norquist and Islamists appears to have started about five years ago, in 1998, when he became the founding chairman of an organization called the Islamic Free Market Institute, better known as the Islamic Institute.1 The Instituteâs stated purpose was to cultivate Muslim-Americans and Arab-Americans whose attachment to conservative family values and capitalism made them potential allies for the Republican Party in advance of the 2000 presidential election. If successful, such an outreach effort could theoretically produce a windfall in votes and campaign contributions. Consequently, it enjoyed the early support of Karl Rove, when he was then-Governor Bushâs political advisor, and who knew Norquist from their days in the College Republicans. Unfortunately, some associated with the Islamic Institute evidently had another agenda. Abdurahman Alamoudi, for one, a self-described âsupporter of Hamas and Hezbollah,â2 the prime-mover behind the American Muslim Council (AMC) and a number of other U.S.-based Islamist-sympathizing/supporting organizations, saw in the Islamic Institute a golden opportunity to hedge his bets. Click here for the entire article on FrontPageMag.com. Posted by: Dragon Fly 2003-12-09 |
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