Ground Zero Mosque: US Taxpayers to Foot Bill for Daisy the Con’s Mideast trip

Frankly, I don't know how much more the American taxpayer is going to take. It's awful enough that the nation is embroiled in a battle to stop an Islamic supremacist mega mosque at Ground Zero.

We found out last week that the State department was funding the radical imam's trip to the Middle East despite the Imam's anti-American and deeply troubling statements, i.e., "we tend to forget, in the West, that the United States
has more Muslim blood on its hands than al Qaida has on its hands of innocent
non Muslims."

Now it's Daisy the con's turn. The American taxpayer is funding her trip to Muslim countries overseas. This on top of news the Ground Zero supremacist mega mosque may get public funding.

America is broken.

Claudia Rosett reports in Forbes:

Among the prime planners of a $100 million Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero, it's not just Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf who is visiting the Middle East
this summer at U.S. taxpayer expense. The State Department is also
about to send Rauf's wife and Cordoba Initiative fellow director, Daisy
Khan, on her own taxpayer-funded "public diplomacy" trip to the United Arab Emirates.
Khan is scheduled to visit the UAE from Aug. 29 to Sept. 2, overlapping
there with Rauf, for whom it will be the final leg of a three-country
trip including Bahrain and Qatar.

The U.S. Embassy in the UAE capital of Abu Dhabi
has posted on its website an announcement of the impending visit by
this husband-wife team. Rauf and Khan will be there, the announcement
says, "to engage foreign audiences and build people-to-people ties" and
to "discuss their experiences as Muslims living and working in the
United States."

What might their discussions entail? Rauf, since his Cordoba
Initiative's Ground Zero mosque project triggered a national uproar, has
spent the summer as an enigma. Before embarking on his State-sponsored
tour, he walled himself off for weeks in Malaysia, where he has
longstanding ties and keeps an office. His Cordoba website now features a
note that Rauf could not be available (apparently not even by phone) to
explain himself to the people of New York because "he travels the world
in his life-long endeavor to bring the message of moderation, peace and
understanding to both Western and Islamic countries."

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In Rauf's
absence, Daisy Khan has been speaking prolifically from New York about
the Cordoba House mega-mosque project (which the developer recently
re-dubbed Park 51, and the Cordoba House is now describing as a
"community center"). Her message, like the name of the project, has been
morphing at speed. When Rauf and Khan won approval for their 15-story
mosque-topped Cordoba House from a Manhattan community board this
spring, they advertised their project as all about doing their part for
harmony and healing near the site of the Sept. 11 attacks.

When it
turned out that a majority of New Yorkers, and Americans generally,
think this project is more like rubbing salt in a wound, Khan shifted
focus. She's now talking about the Cordoba project as a test of American
religious tolerance. If a majority of Americans–cognizant that the
Sept. 11 attacks were carried out by Muslims, in the name of
Islam–think it's inappropriate to stage that test near the edge of
Ground Zero, Khan's retort is that they must be bigots. In an interview
last week with the Washington Post's Sally Quinn, she lamented: "When will Muslims be accepted as plain old Americans?"

On Sunday, interviewed on ABC TV's This Week by Christiane Amanpour, Khan ratcheted up her complaints. Amanpour asked, "Is America Islamophobic?"