Careful, Larry, it almost seems as if you are defending the Bush administration :D
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Proof? > > AFAIK you're just repeating a leftist myth. The Bush regime never > directly or indirectly funded the Taliban. > > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Eric Roberts > <ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: >> >> Yet the Bush Administration did fund the Taliban the summer prior to the >> 9/11 attacks....hmmm >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:larrycly...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 9:17 PM >> To: cf-community >> Subject: Re: Controversy swells as Obama supports Ground Zero mosque >> >> >> Actually the US never funded the Taliban or Al Queda during the Soviet >> occupation. For one thing the Taliban did not exist at the time. The >> Taliban was formed after the Soviet, then the American withdrawals >> from Afghanistan in the mid 1990's. >> >> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Jerry Barnes <critic...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> "And somehow the Bush administration missed all that when they sent him >> out >>> to engage is dialog with Muslim countries on behalf of the US?" >>> >>> So what? At one time, the US funded Osama Bin Laden in his fight against >>> the USSR. >>> >>> >>> "Maybe I'm totally wrong though and he is really a secret fundamentalist >> who >>> has just been broadly advocating for peace and tolerance for all these >> years >>> as a clever disguise for his true purpose." >>> >>> Maybe he is, maybe he isn't. Here is one interpretation of Rauf's book. >> It >>> is not my opinion, but I find it interesting. >>> >>> >>> Raufs book has two different titles, one for non-Muslims and one for >>> Muslims. >>> >>> In English, it is called Whats Right With Islam: A New Vision For Muslims >>> and the West. >>> >>> But in Muslim-ruled Malaysia a country whose language Rauf knows well >>> since he has spent a great deal of time there the book was published as >> A >>> Call To Prayer From the World Trade Center Rubble: Islamic Dawa in the >> Heart >>> of America Post-9/11. >>> >>> The word rubble stands out. It means wreckage reduced to rubbish. Trash. >>> Garbage. >>> >>> An Islamic call to prayer is made by a muezein, the Muslim who ritually >>> calls the faithful to prayer. The muezein issues his call from a tall >>> minaret, high above the rest of the world. Now we get an image of Rauf in >>> the position of a muezein standing tall in his fifteen-story mosque >> looking >>> down at the rubble of the World Trade Center, the buildings reduced to >>> rubbish by his own religious group (although he has denied that Muslims >>> perpetrated the 9/11 attacks). >>> >>> The image is of conquest Islam over the West. If Rauf is indeed a >> bridge >>> builder, as he calls himself, we must question where the bridge is going. >>> Is it towards Islamic dominance over non-Muslims? >>> >>> >>> >>> J >>> >>> - >>> >>> Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms those entrusted with >>> power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny - >>> Thomas Jefferson on gov >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:325593 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
