Ask him if they will tolerate women walking through the front doors, or whether homosexuals will be welcomed with open arms? Religious tolerance? WTF is wrong with this administration?
American taxpayers will pay the imam behind plans for a mosque near the Manhattan site of the Sept. 11 attacks $3,000 in fees for a three-nation outreach trip to the Middle East that will cost roughly $16,000, the State Department said Wednesday.
The department said Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf will get a daily $200 honorarium for the 15-day tour to Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, which is intended to promote religious tolerance.
Airfare is included, as well as the standard federal government per diem for expenses and lodging in each of the cities he will visit, spokesman P.J. Crowley said. Those per diem rates range from nearly $400 to nearly $500, according to official documents.
via Weasel Zippers.
August 18, 2010 at 9:18 pm
$400 to $500 per diem rates?? WTH, I don’t know any federal employee that gets that kind of per diem rate, but I don’t know any that travel overseas. Is it that expensive in the countries mentioned or are we paying for five star hotels??
Ah heck I don’t care if we’re paying for Motel 6. I don’t want to foot the bill for this jerk.
August 18, 2010 at 9:20 pm
In the name of religious tolerance? I thought we were supposed to be a separation of church and state?
August 18, 2010 at 9:21 pm
This goat lover has sufficient gall to do what he is doing, I am sure that someone in the Middle East can accommodate him at their expense.
August 18, 2010 at 9:34 pm
Wait I think I have it. The per diem is so high to cover the costs of his “pet” goats.
August 18, 2010 at 9:42 pm
Oh yes, I am sure that he is quite close to them if you know what I mean.
August 18, 2010 at 9:35 pm
Good point above McNorman what about that separation of church and state….where’s the ACLU and all the other secular crowd?? Funny how quiet some of the special interest groups are with BO in the WH.
August 18, 2010 at 9:44 pm
ACLU is now his lapdog. Where are they? Doing ridiculous meaningless tripe. They don’t have a problem mentally masturbating over “God Bless You” when you sneeze. What a terrible waste of brain power.
August 18, 2010 at 11:50 pm
Why are we paying for this flip-off artist’s trip? It’s all part of oilsoc’s Islamization of America. Remember a few weeks ago when oilsoc presented a Muslim entrepreneurship program? How conveniently located is this mosque to Wall St!!! This bleeding goat-fucker is going to the Middle East to raise $ for the mosque and to recruit Moslem businessmen to extend the Moslem colonization of America. No piddling 711 Moslems for oilsoc, nosiree. He’s after the high rollers, so he can deliver Wall St to them.
August 19, 2010 at 5:27 am
1 in 4 believe oilsoc is a Muslim.
August 19, 2010 at 4:56 am
Call me cynical but I think the whole paying for his trip thing is very calculated.
Look whose department is funding the trip and you will see where the blame is going to fall. Oilsoc and his cronies setting up our girl?
August 19, 2010 at 9:53 am
I don’t know, it’s all wrong.