WTF? Are Our Tax Dollars Paying For Ground Zero Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf's Trip To Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, etc?

Rauf refuses to call Hamas a terrorist group/blames US for 9/11 and our State Dept is sending him on a bridge building mission to the ME. Again, WTF?

Read about this from Claudia Rosett here[Forbes] & here[Pajamas Media]

Snippet:

Ultimately, in response to repeated questions, a member of Rauf's New York Cordoba Initiative foundation e-mailed me Friday, saying that Rauf's trip to the Middle East, "in the near future," will be hosted by the U.S. government as part of an outreach program to "bring the message of moderation, peace and understanding."

At the State Department, which presumably will be spending taxpayer money on Rauf's tour, I have yet to receive confirmation or any other information about his program, despite three days of my repeated requests by phone and e-mail. Apparently it is taking a while for State's Bureau of Public Diplomacy to get "clearance" to release any details of this particular public outreach effort, though Rauf's wife says it has been in the works for months.

Are our tax dollars paying for the radical imam's trip to enable him to raise more money for the Ground Zero mosque? If so, no wonder he won't release the names of those who gave money up front to build the mosque.

WTF is wrong with this picture?

File this under Domestic Dhimmis/Stealth Jihad

Thanks to Robert

Related:
Ground Zero mosque imam blames US for 9/11/refuses to call Hamas a terrorist organization

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Hamas Terror Manifesto Published By Obama's Church

Cross posted at the Jawa Report