[ April 19, 2024 ]
Finally, some push back at the Islamic State department.
In the wake of the September 11th attacks, the State Department has relentlessly pursued and promoted Islam within the department and in its dealing with foreign policy initiatives.
Maybe now, finally, this obscene submission is coming to an end.
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They have made Ramadan a highlight of State Department initiatives:
On September 11th 2009, the State Department invited every employee to a film screening of “Islam, What a Billion Muslims Really Think” at the Acheson auditorium — the largest auditorium at main State, while hosting huge Iftar dinners for State Department employees.
The State Department has allocated huge resources for Ramadan for US embassies worldwide
The State Department lifted the ban on Tariq Ramadan and other inciters to jihad.
The State Department has spent hundreds of millions of dollars building and rebuilding mosques worldwide.
The State Department has offered a $10 Million reward for kill or capture of ‘enemies Of Islam.’
The State Department has acted on behalf of US terror-tied group CAIR, asking the United Arab Emirates to explain its decision to list them as terrorist organization. I could have easily answered that for State.
The State Department has recruited Muslim foreign services officers from jihad conferences.
The State Department has printed mosque calenders.
The State Department has a special division, Outreach to Muslims.
The State Department paid for the Ground Zero mosque Imam Rauf to tour the Middle East or fundraising : “US Muslim Engagement” better known as a charter for dhimmitude.
No other religion receives this special status at State. And why? Because terrorism works.
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Tillerson declines to host Ramadan event at State Department
Reuters, May 27, 2017:
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has declined a request to host an event to mark Islam’s holy month of Ramadan, two U.S. officials said, apparently breaking with a bipartisan tradition in place with few exceptions for nearly 20 years.
Since 1999, Republican and Democratic secretaries of state have nearly always hosted either an iftar dinner to break the day’s fast during Ramadan or a reception marking the Eid al-Fitr holiday at the end of the month, at the State Department.
Tillerson turned down a request from the State Department’s Office of Religion and Global Affairs to host an Eid al-Fitr reception as part of Ramadan celebrations, said two U.S. officials who declined to be identified because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Tillerson delivers remarks to the employees at the State Department in Washington
According to an April 6 memo seen by Reuters, the office – which typically initiates such events – recommended that Tillerson hold an Eid al-Fitr reception.
His rejection of the request suggests there are no plans this year for any high-profile Ramadan function at the State Department. The month of fasting and prayer for Muslims gets under way in many countries on Saturday.
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When asked by Reuters to comment on Tillerson declining a request to host an Eid al-Fitr event in July for Ramadan, a State Department spokesperson said:
“We are still exploring possible options for observance of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the month of Ramadan. U.S. ambassadors are encouraged to celebrate Ramadan through a variety of activities, which are held annually at missions around the world.”
Muslim activists have accused President Donald Trump’s administration of having an unfriendly attitude toward Islam, encapsulated by its attempts to ban citizens of several Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States.
The administration says that while it strongly opposes Islamist militants, it has no quarrel with Islam. Aides point to Trump’s visit this month to Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam where he addressed the leaders of more than 50 Muslim countries, as evidence of that.
Members of Congress, Muslim civil society and community leaders, diplomats from Muslim countries and senior U.S. officials usually attend the State Department Ramadan event, a symbol of the U.S. government’s diplomatic efforts with Muslim countries and people.
If Tillerson avoids hosting one this year, that could send a message “that it is not as important to this administration to engage with Muslims,” said former U.S. diplomat Farah Pandith, who served in the Bush and Obama administrations and helped plan Ramadan events at the White House and State Department.
Tillerson issued a statement on Friday to mark the start of Ramadan, which he called “a month of reverence, generosity, and self-reflection.”
“Most importantly, it is a cherished time for family and friends to gather and give charity to those who are less fortunate,” he said.
PAST RAMADANS
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright started the tradition 18 years ago of America’s top diplomat hosting a public event for Ramadan, a lunar month.
The secretary of state of the time usually gives remarks there on the meaning of Ramadan.
In April, the State Department’s Office of Religion and Global Affairs made a request to Tillerson’s office that he deliver remarks at an Eid al-Fitr reception this year, and suggested a two-week range of dates in July. The event would serve to “highlight State Department initiatives and the importance of Muslim engagement,” the memo said.
It noted that by hosting a reception just after Ramadan, rather than an iftar – an often sumptuous dinner at sunset – a State Department event could be held any time of the day, thus preventing “a very late evening for the Secretary.”
Several weeks later, that office and other offices at the State Department were alerted that Tillerson declined the request, the officials said.
Reuters was told of the request being declined but did not see Tillerson’s reply. An official with the Office of Religion and Global Affairs did not respond to a request for comment.
Several prominent Muslim-American groups in the Washington area who are normally invited to the Ramadan event told Reuters this week that they had yet to receive an invitation from the State Department, which they said was unusual.
“If they’re having one, we haven’t been invited,” said Rabiah Ahmed, spokeswoman for the Muslim Public Affairs Council in Washington. A representative for her group has been invited to the State Department event in the past, she said.
FRAUGHT RELATIONSHIP
Trump’s administration has had a fraught relationship with Muslims. As a presidential candidate, the Republican urged a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States, called for more surveillance of mosques and warned that radical Muslims were “trying to take over our children.”
Trump has since toned down his rhetoric and courts have halted his temporary travel ban on people from six mostly Muslim countries.
White House officials did not respond to a request for comment on whether they would continue the tradition this year of hosting a Ramadan-related event at the White House.
The State Department celebrates other religious traditions though some of those commemorations are not as well-established as the State Department’s Ramadan event. In 2014, then-secretary of state John Kerry hosted the first ever celebration at the State Department marking Diwali, the Hindu festival.
The White House also traditionally hosts annual Christmas and Easter events as well as a Seder dinner to mark the Jewish Passover.
The top U.S. diplomat has personally hosted a Ramadan event every year since 1999, often in the State Department’s grand Benjamin Franklin room, apart from three years.
In 2006 and 2015, deputies of the secretary of state at the time hosted either an iftar dinner or an Eid al-Fitr reception. In 2014, Kerry hosted a reception for Eid al-Adha, another important Muslim holiday.
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40 Comments
6 years ago
Why are Americans or any free people celebrating an event in islam, which is dedicated to the death of those who do not believe as well as the violent overthrow of all other forms of movement and religion other than islam? islam is criminal, it should be shunned and ridiculed whenever possible.
6 years ago
Reply to
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6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
It’s ridiculous isn’t it! I didn’t read this whole article yet but ya gotta love the Trump administration and Tillerson for not bowing down to Islam the way Bush and Obama did! It’s refreshing!
6 years ago
Reply to
Janet
That was the problem with the democrats, they bowed, grovelled, submitted and humiliated themselves for so long, that muslims came to expect it. Now that there is an American government in America, muslims are not happy butchers.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
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6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Yes and if they served some food item that is not halal they would have grounds for litigation just as is taking place with the suit against Little Caesars in Dearborn for giving a muslim pepperoni pizza that was not halal.
6 years ago
Reply to
CreoleGumbo
There is no pleasing muslims, they are as greedy as they are stupid and arrogant.
6 years ago
Reply to
kathleen T Quinlan
Nothing that brute force and reciprocal ignorance can’t cure.
D
6 years ago
Finally, some good news.
I don’t know what to do about the State Department. It has been such a disaster over past decades that one might be tempted just to eliminate the whole department.
6 years ago
Who the he!! do these people think they are. When I see the celebration of this filthy cult at tax payer expense, on government tax paid property it makes the detesting of this diseased sub-human sewage easier.
6 years ago
Clean it out, Rex!!!
6 years ago
Did you see T-Rex riding with the Rolling Thunder motorcycle charity today? Doesn’t look, like he’s going to be celebrating Ramadan any time soon:
https://twitter.com/vjmar1/status/868863683623088128/video/1
6 years ago
“If Tillerson avoids hosting one this year, that could send a message
“that it is not as important to this administration to engage with
Muslims…..” So, what’s the problem? Why should this administration “engage” with the muslims over the Christians and Jews. They had their eight years with that fawning backside licker.
6 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
Sounds like they’ve engaged — beginning several years after the 1993 WTC bombing and before 9 / 11 — yet what did it avail ?
“Since 1999, Republican and Democratic secretaries of state have nearly
always hosted either an iftar dinner to break the day’s fast during
Ramadan or a reception marking the Eid al-Fitr holiday at the end of the
month, at the State Department.”
6 years ago
If I were Secretary Tillerson, I would have had a two-word veto response to the request for a raghead commemoration by the State Department. One of those words starts with an “F” and the other doesn’t.
6 years ago
LOL! All he had to say was, NO, have a nice day……
6 years ago
Well, the Muslims just have to realize that the Secretary of State obviously
had something better to do.
6 years ago
Good for Tillerson!
6 years ago
Good for you and for the USA, Mr Tillerson. Perhaps now Mr. Patrick Dunleavy will be allowed to go on lecturing, and perhaps even Mr Robert Spencer and Miss Pamela Geller may be invited to lecture? Time for truth to be visibly established.
6 years ago
You may have whatever religion you want, but you may NOT foist said religion on the people of the United States by the government. That is against he Constitution, and as such, we do NOT follow Sharia law, considering that it is in fact a FOREIGN law.
6 years ago
Reply to
Sunshine Kid
I’m not so sure that freedom of religion should apply to islam. Islam is not a religion like Judaism or Christianity. In fact it is the polar opposite of those religions, for reasons too many to list here.
Suffice to say it is more a political movement with religious trappings. National Socialism was a political movement with religious (pagan) trappings.
On those grounds alone I would like to see islam banned from England.
6 years ago
Reply to
Badger
On the grounds you put forth, I would like to see Islam banned from the whole world.
6 years ago
Reply to
Sunshine Kid
They do not foist. they infiltrate and we do not stand up for ourselves. We accept the teaching that we have done wrong. We should be proud to stand up for ourselves and country. Most prosperous, diverse. No need to be suicidal as Hillary and Obama would have us. I think they just want to dismantle this country and fork it over to the UN
6 years ago
Reply to
kathleen T Quinlan
Oh, yest they DO foist their cult on us. They have gotten teachers to teach it in schools, officials in government to sanction it, and if you don’t agree, they’ll protest. I, for one, do NOT accept their BS cult, and they are the ones doing wrong. They claim “moderation”, but celebrate death and destruction.
I agree that we SHOULD be proud of our country. At one time, and I remember this time back in the 1950s, Americans WERE proud of their country. Now it is full of panty-àššed “snowflakes” that push “diversity” to the point of being ridiculous. We were once a nation that created ONE out of many; now the “many” are intent on destroying the ONE NATION that was the greatest in the world. Unless the current Republicans get behind the President, this nation will tear itself apart.
And WE don’t need the UN as much as they need us. I say kick them back to Europe.
6 years ago
YES!
6 years ago
THANK YOU MR SECRETARY….
FROM AN AMERICAN SOLDIER, THANK YOU SIR!!!!
6 years ago
Reply to
Mack Pooh
From the widow of a naval officer who served during the Korean WAR: Thank you, T-Rex! You rock! Finally a Mensch to do the job.
Yours truly, Marianne Ricci-Wilson
(Daughter of a LEGAL Italian immigrant.)
6 years ago
Reply to
disqus_KH0F5xMG8U
Thank You Ma’am for being there. Your husband lead the way, and we just followed through. As a military spouse, you are the backbone of our military. My wife has been there for my career and on my honor, she is what “brought me home from the frontlines”….. well here and the brotherhood…..
THANK YOU MA’AM…….
6 years ago
I wish we had people like Tillerson in government in the UK.
6 years ago
Islam is about to find out the hard way here in America. They’ve pushed their agenda far enough and this is where Islam meets its end. This is America and you Muslims and your “so called religion” are about to find out the hard way that you and your religion are nothing more than BS. You Muslims are nothing special and they only recognition you’ll get is within you own homes or your mosques. You’ve pushed your agenda here in America far enough and now you Muslims are about to be put in your place once and for all here in America.
6 years ago
Bully for Tillerson! Bully for him!!
6 years ago
I’ll be praying for the muslamists during rama-crap – to find their god and quickly!
Link from the past ramacrap lightning strike – https://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2015/09/13/engineer-says-collapse-of-mecca-crane-killing-107-was-an-act-of-god/
6 years ago
Good!! Way to go tillerson!!!!
6 years ago
Now that’s what I’m talking about!
6 years ago
Finally.. Some push back on our former muslum potus insane policies!
D
6 years ago
The State Department support of one religion over all others is an Illegal use of Tax Dollars and today’s administration needs to undertake sanctions if not prosecute the perpetrators political or otherwise who directed tax monies to be provided n support of Islam.
Islamophobia; is the appropriate response to a religion that defends doctrine that demands and encourages killing and/or enslavement of non moslems world wide, and which promises reward in the here and now, or in the life to come for those who undertake to maim, kill or enslave any or all non moslems.
