Attention: America's Tax Dollars building Mosques - By: Boker tov, Boulder!

Obama defends mosque at Ground Zero

Wednesday, 25 August 2010

Your Tax Dollars at Work: Building MOSQUES

"...by giving his first interview to the Arabic network, Obama signaled his continuing belief in his personal power as a symbol of America against the temptations of Islamic militancy."   

Ben Smith at Politico, Jan. 2009

El Marco:

.... While much attention has been focused on questions surrounding the Ground Zero mosque and the appropriateness of the State Department funding Ground Zero mosque imam Feisal Abdul Rauf’s trip to the Middle East, little attention has been given to the fact that U.S. taxpayer money is funding mosque development around the world.

Just a cursory search of the term “mosque” on the State Department’s list of "projects” reveals 26 examples of federal funds going to fund construction, renovation, and rehabilitation of various mosques abroad.

The benefiting countries include Bulgaria, Pakistan, Mali, Tunisia, Afghanistan, Benin, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Albania, Egypt, Tunisia, the Maldives, Yemen, Turkmenistan, Tanzania, Uganda, Azerbaijan, Sudan, Serbia and Montenegro.

"Federal funds."  That would be y/our taxpayer dollars. 52.8 BILLION of them going to the State Department in FY2011.  That's an increase of nearly ten percent over FY2010.  No wonder Social Security recipients got no cost of living adjustment (COLA) this year... for the first time in more than three decades.

For more detail, see Obama boosts budget for State Dept. at the Washington Times (February 2, 2010).

And btw, in addition to mosque-building, we pay for all this:

Secretary of State (S)

Deputy Secretary (D)

Deputy Secretary for Management and Resources (DMR)

Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance (F)

Counselor of the Department (C)

Under Secretary for:
Arms Control and International Security (T)
Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs(E)
Democracy and Global Affairs (G)
Management (M)
Political Affairs (P)
Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs (R)

Special Envoys and Special Representatives
Coordinator, Threat Reduction Programs 
Special Adviser for Nonproliferation and Arms Control 
Special Envoy for Climate Change 
Special Envoy for Conventional Armed Forces in Europe 
Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy 
Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues 
Special Envoy for Middle East Peace  
Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights Issues 
Special Envoy for the Six-Party Talks  
Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism 
Special Envoy to Sudan
Special Representative for Global Partnerships 
Special Representative for North Korea Policy 
Special Representative of the President for Nuclear Nonproliferation 
Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan  
Special Representative to Muslim Communities 

Bureaus and Offices
Administration (A)
African Affairs (AF)
Allowances (A/OPR/ALS)
Authentication Division (A/OPR/GSM/AUTH)

Coordinator for Counterterrorism (S/CT)
Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization (S/CRS)
Chief Information Officer (CIO)
Chief of Staff (S)
Civil Rights, Office of
Consular Affairs (CA)

Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL)
Diplomatic Security (DS)
Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of Human Resources (DGHR)

East Asian and Pacific Affairs (EAP)
Economic, Energy and Business Affairs (EEB)
Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA)
European and Eurasian Affairs (EUR)
Executive Secretariat (S/ES)

Foreign Service Institute (FSI)
Foreign Missions, Office of

Global AIDS Coordinator, Office of (S/GAC)
Global Women's Issues (S/GWI)

Human Resources (M/HR)

Information Resource Management (IRM)
Inspector General (OIG)
Intelligence and Research (INR)
International Information Programs (IIP)
International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL)
International Organization Affairs (IO)
International Security and Nonproliferation (ISN)

Legal Adviser (L)
Legislative Affairs (H)

Management Policy (M/P)
Medical Services (M/MED)

Near Eastern Affairs (NEA)

Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs(OES)
Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO)

Policy, Planning, and Resources for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, Office of (R/PPR)
Policy Planning Staff (S/P)
Political-Military Affairs (PM)
Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM)
Protocol (S/CPR)
Public Affairs (PA)

Resource Management (RM)
Rightsizing the U.S. Government's Overseas Presence (M/R)

Science & Technology Adviser (G/STAS)
South and Central Asian Affairs (SCA)

Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP)

Verification, Compliance, and Implementation (VCI)

War Crimes Issues (S/WCI)
Western Hemisphere Affairs (WHA)

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LINK/SOURCE:  Boker tov, Boulder!

Note:

Americans opposing a Mosque at Ground Zero now have a more in-depth view of how its government has evolved into supporting Islam around the world - with our own tax dollars, to boot!

Bee Sting