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Islami extremist at CPAC 2011
Via The Jawa Report:  Islamic Extremist Suhail Khan to be featured at CPAC 2011 Frank Gaffney at Big Peace reports today on the appearance of Islamic Extremist Suhail Khan at CPAC 2011 next month. Note that Khan is on the board of the American Conservative Union (ACU), which operates CPAC and is a protege of GOP Activist Grover Norquist, who as Gaffney notes co-founded the Islamic Institute with top Al-Qaeda Fundraiser Abdurahman Alamoudi. Gaffney says "It's a Time to Choose for...

Islamic extremist Suhail Khan to be featured at CPAC 2011
Frank Gaffney at Big Peace reports today on the appearance of Islamic Extremist Suhail Khan at CPAC 2011 next month. Note that Khan is on the board of the American Conservative Union (ACU), which operates CPAC and is a protege of GOP Activist Grover Norquist, who as Gaffney notes co-founded the Islamic Institute with top Al-Qaeda Fundraiser Abdurahman Alamoudi. Gaffney says "It's a Time to Choose for the Conservative Movement": Then, this evening, WND raised troubling questions about the role...

Conservative Groups Split Over Participation Of GOProud At Annual CPAC Conference
Conservative Groups Split Over Participation Of GOProud At Annual CPAC Conference The Family Research Council and a few other social conservative organizations like Concerned Women for America, American Principles Project and American Values are refusing to attend next month’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) to Protest the participation GOProud, a Gay Rights group. But Focus on Family is staying put, at least for now: “They made a mistake,” CitizenLink spoke...

Right Wing Boycott Movement Links CPAC to the Muslim Brotherhood
Incensed over the participation of the conservative gay-rights group GOProud in the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, far-right Activists are now trying to connect the major conservative event to the Muslim Brotherhood. The American Conservative Union (ACU), which hosts CPAC, has been the target of Religious Right groups and leaders over their handling of GOProud’s involvement, with Joseph Farah even calling for Conservatives to “Purge” the ACU from the movemen...

The CPAC War: Getting Weirder
So the movement right is having a huge fight over who gets to attend CPAC. Some background here and here as the bigfeet of Christianism - from NOM to FRC - refuse to attend if a splinter gay-right group, GOProud, is included. But who could have predicted this development: it's all being orchestrated by the Muslim Brotherhood: Frank Gaffney, a leader of the Conservative Movement for the last 30 years, charges that CPAC has come under the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is working to ...

Right-Wingers Claim Muslim Brotherhood Has Infiltrated CPAC
The right-wing site World Net Daily and conservative columnist Frank Gaffney came up with a new reason this week to hate the Conservative Political Action Conference, arguing that it has been infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood thanks to Grover Norquist, the Republican group Muslims For America, and Ex-Bush Staffer Suhail Khan. In an interview with TPM today, Khan described how "every few months there's a different iteration of [Gaffney] and his cohorts' wild accusations," but it is simply u...

World Net Daily: Homos And The Muslim Brotherhood Have Taken Over CPAC 2011
As part of their continuing campaign to destroy CPAC 2011 for allowing GOProud to participate, today World Net Daily announced that the nation's largest annual conservative conference is being secretly run by the "Muslim Brotherhood." For realz! With the Conservative Political Action Conference under fire for allowing participation by a Homosexual Activist group called GOProud and for a financial Scandal in which some $400,000 was misappropriated under the watch of current leadership, Frank Ga...

For the record, this does bother me
I usually, as a rule, do not link to WorldNetDaily — But this story here stands out a bit…. Via Farah’s Site: WASHINGTON - Another Headache has emerged for the largest annual gathering of Conservatives slated for next month. With the Conservative Political Action Conference under fire for allowing participation by a Homosexual Activist group called GOProud and for a financial Scandal in which some $400,000 was misappropriated under the watch of current leadership, Frank Gaf...

Ali Hasan Drawn Into Bizarre CPAC Witch Hunt?
An interesting blog post today at the People for the American Way--you might have read recently that some Activists preparing to attend the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, are upset about the participation of a GOP Gay Rights group, GOProud. This includes Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family, who reportedly is considering pulling out of future CPACs in response, although they're still on the list of sponsors for this year's. As it turns out, GOProud isn't the onl...

FRC Explains Decision to Skip CPAC
We left CPAC a couple of years ago (before GOProud was a twinkle in anyone’s eye) in part because we saw they were moving away from conservative principles and also because of a growing concern over the management of CPAC. We know many friends as well as former CPAC employees over the years and know how the place operates. I didn’t hear anyone here at FRC voicing surprise when a leading ACU official was caught embezzling a few weeks ago. GOProud only cemented our decision that we sho...

WND And Frank Gaffney Afraid Muslims Are Infiltrating CPAC
First, the RWNJ’s were going to stay away from CPAC because GOProud, a conservative gay group would be in attendance. But World Net Daily and conservative Frank Gaffney (pictured) have a new reason to avoid the upcoming yearly Conservative Political Action Conference: the Muslims are coming! …in an article yesterday on World Net Daily called “Now look who else is infiltrating CPAC,” Gaffney “told WND that Islamism has infiltrated the American Conservative Union...

CPAC infiltrated by radical gays, radical Muslims
I noted last week that the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington is currently the target of a Boycott by social Conservatives over the inclusion of the gay Republican group GOProud. Now, CPAC has angered a separate segment of the Conservative Movement by allowing the conservative group Muslims for America to participate.  As Politico's Ben Smith quipped, "Who knew that creeping Sharia was so gay-friendly?" The conservative news site WorldNetDaily, which has been trum...

No big GOP tent for you, homos - all RNC chair candidates support 'sanctity of man-woman marriage'
Michael Steele is fighting to keep his job as lawn jockey Chairman of the RNC and was at today's National Press Club debate. Of course the inevitable questions about Social Issues came up and SURPRISE! -- they all oppose marriage equality. Watch it (via The Wonk Room): - MICHAEL STEELE: "It's foundational to who we are as a nation, how we define ourselves as people...not to the exclusion of others, not to diminish anyone's individuality, but to say in a very supportive way that the...

RNC Candidates Push for Credibility, Conservatism in GOP
Few major differences emerged Monday in a debate between the five remaining Candidates vying to chair the Republican National Committee, but the four Candidates hoping to oust current chair Michael Steele pushed the need to restore "credibility" to the committee. That message was an indirect jab at the criticisms that have arisen over Steele's leadership of the committee. But Steele revealed himself to have learned some lessons that may have been lost of the others, including the boundaries of...

Conservatives and gays and Muslims -- oh my
Conservatives AND GAYS AND MuslimS -- OH MY.... The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), arguably the nation's largest annual right-wing gathering, kicks off in about a month. Under normal circumstances, the buzz would be about the speakers' list and the size of the crowd. And that would make sense. This should be an especially big year for CPAC -- emboldened Republican Party Leaders will be on hand to boast about their right-wing agenda, and a legion of likely presidential candida...

House 'Radicalization' Hearings Worry U.S. Muslims
By Daniel Burke Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) Mass Protests against planned Mosques in New York City and Tennessee. An Oklahoma Referendum to ban Islamic law. A media circus around a Florida pastor's threat to burn Qurans. An outbreak of homegrown Islamic Terrorists. Two U.S.-led wars in predominantly Muslim countries. There was no shortage of topics to discuss at the recent Muslim Public Affairs Council convention in Los Angeles. But the prospect of congressional hearings on the "ra...

Investigate Justice Dept.'s efforts against terrorism
Given the Democrats' track record of investigating Republican administrations, they will lack credibility when they Protest Republicans investigating actions by the Obama Administration. Oversight is a primary function of any Congress. The new Republican House majority is expected to conduct several investigations. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., the new chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has promised to lead six of them, including one that according to Issa's spokesma...

Grover Norquist group: Putting taxes on ballot violates no-tax pledge
The national anti-tax group Americans for Tax Reform will e-mail and fax letters tomorrow to California legislators who signed its no-tax pledge, warning them the group will consider any vote to put tax extension measures on the ballot a violation of that pledge, said the group's state affairs director Patrick Gleason. Gov. Jerry Brown is planning to make major Budget cuts and also ask voters to extend temporary Tax Increases that are set to lapse this year. All of California's Republican legi...

Today in Feuds: Tucker and Grover Give it a Rest After 13 Years
This story by Tim Mak over at the Frum Forum is delicious reading: Many years ago, Tucker Carlson "accidentally" poured a Bloody Mary onto Grover Norquist's head from above him on a raised platform. This Monday, in what might have been the settling of a legendary long-time feud, Carlson and Norquist sat together on the same platform as co-hosts of the RNC Candidates debate. Indeed, the RNC Candidates debate sponsored yesterday by Americans for Tax Reform and the Daily Caller Monday may have rep...

Tucker Carlson and Grover Norquist: The Rapprochement
Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. One of the more amusing aspects of Monday's RNC debate was the sight of the Tucker Carlson of the Daily Caller and Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform, two of the debates moderators, sitting side by side at the same table. In the past, the two have not been the best of friends, to put it mildly. In 1997, for example, Carlson wrote that Norquist is a "mean-spirited, humorless, dishonest little creep...an embarrassing anomaly,...

Now look who elseis penetrating CPAC
WASHINGTON – Another Headache has emerged for the largest annual gathering of Conservatives slated for next month. With the Conservative Political Action Conference under fire for allowing participation by a Homosexual Activist group called GOProud and for a financial Scandal in which some $400,000 was misappropriated under the watch of current leadership, Frank Gaffney, a leader of the Conservative Movement for the last 30 years, charges that CPAC has come under the influence of the Musl...

A Lip-Biting Debate as Steele Faces His Critics
There's something inherently odd about a public, televised debate between Candidates vying for a post only 168 people get to vote for, and whose votes are won based on old-school, closed-door politicking far from the panel room. So while the Republican National Committee Chairman debate Monday provided a window into the sort of presence each of the four Candidates challenging embattled Incumbent chair Michael Steele would have if given the committee's podium, it did little to clarify the contou...

Now Its Not Just The Gays Infiltrating CPAC, Its The Muslims
The crazy wing of the Conservative Movement has found a new reason to Boycott this year's Conservative Political Action Conference, it's the...

The CPAC wars
Second time as farce, with WND -- a player among social Conservatives unhappy with the conservative conference -- reporting: With the Conservative Political Action Conference under fire for allowing participation by a Homosexual Activist group called GOProud and for a financial Scandal in which some $400,000 was misappropriated under the watch of current leadership, Frank Gaffney, a leader of...

Religious Right Tells GOP Not To Ignore Social Issues
Back around the election, a group of Religious Right leaders sent a letter to top Republicans urging them to cut taxes, shrink the government, build up the Military and restore "traditional moral values." "When considering America's fiscal and national defense policies, which are critically important, we believe that Social Issues, including, but not limited to, the sanctity of human life and the preservation of marriage as the union of one man and one woman, are indispensable,&qu...;