US State Dept Funds Imam Rauf's Anti-US Jihad Rhetoric

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf: "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. You may remember that the US-led sanctions against Iraq led to the death of over half a million Iraqi children. This has been documented by the United Nations. And when Madeleine Albright, who has become a friend of mine over the last couple of years, when she was Secretary of State and was asked whether this was worth it, said it was worth it.

It is not surprising that the State Department was aware of Rauf's extremist rhetoric, a story broken at Atlas yesterday (astounding but not surprising). State Department Spokesman P.J. Crowley even mentions me derisively as "a blogger." What is surprising is their acknowledgment of the remarks and their sanctioning of such anti-American, pro-jihadist rhetoric. I did not take these remarks out of context. I ran the whole transcript. What they are trying to do is create a Shirley Sherrod moment -- as if to say the imam didn't mean what he said. It worked with Sherrod, so they figure ..........

But this is the Imam's own words. And he meant what he said. The State Department has become a wing of the stealth jihad. They are funding his trip to the Middle East. Think about that.