ButtWorm (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-14-10 04:42 PM
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Sponsor of National Prayer Breakfast received money from alleged terrorist group
Edited on Thu Oct-14-10 04:43 PM by BurtWorm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...
A group of Ohio ministers has asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the organization that sponsors the National Prayer Breakfast because it received money six years ago from an alleged Islamic terrorist organization trying to finance illicit lobbying.
ClergyVoice, the activist group that wrote to the IRS commissioner Wednesday, complained that the Fellowship Foundation violated its obligation as a tax-exempt organization not to deal with such entities.
The foundation, an Arlington-based religious enterprise associated with a house at 133 C St. SE where several members of the House and Senate have rented rooms, acknowledged Wednesday that it had received two $25,000 checks, in May and June 2004, from the Missouri-based Islamic American Relief Agency.
The charity was included on a Senate Finance Committee list of terrorist financiers in January of that year.
The foundation said the agency's money was neither retained nor used to finance foreign trips it has organized for lawmakers such as Sens. John Ensign (R-Nev.) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.). The group's vetting of donors has been tightened, President Richard E. Carver said in an interview Wednesday. "Hopefully, we would not see a repeat of this kind of experience," he added.
The Islamic American Relief Agency was raided and shuttered by federal agents in October 2004, but in the months after its inclusion on the Senate committee list, it mounted a quiet lobbying effort to clear its name. Carver initially said his group had checked up on the charity at the time the money came in and found nothing, but then said later in the day that he had received incorrect information and that no such checking had occurred.
So what is the take-away?
* Bush was raiding hapless Islamic charities with his god-like dictatorial powers, except when he closes charities that lobby his own party
* Ensing and Coburn are Islamophobes because they're Republicans because Republicans are Islamophobes, except when they don't
* Republicans like terrorists except when they are incessantly bombing them
* Christian are intolerant of Muslims, except when they join charity foundations
Where will the DUmbasses find their source of flailing rage?
