REPORT: $42 Million From Seven Foundations Helped Fuel The Rise Of Islamophobia In America

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REPORT: $42 Million From Seven Foundations Helped Fuel The Rise Of Islamophobia In America

Following a six-month long investigative research project, the Center for American Progress released a 130-page report today which reveals that more than $42 million from seven foundations over the past decade have helped fan the flames of anti-Muslim hate in America. The authors — Wajahat Ali, Eli Clifton, Matt Duss, Lee Fang, Scott Keyes, and myself — worked to expose the Islamophobia network in depth, name the major players, connect the dots, and trace the genesis of anti-Muslim propaganda.

The report, titled “Fear Inc.: The Roots Of the Islamophobia Network In America,” lifts the veil behind the hate, follows the money, and identifies the names of foundations who have given money, how much they have given, and who they have given to:

LIST OF DONORS APPEARS AT THE LINK --

but we immediately see the prominence of Richard Scaife once again --

He also funded Dobson's group -- !!

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/08/26/304306/islamophobia-network/




Completing this idea of demonization by fakery -- I think many still don't know that those

very violent textbooks which Americans heard so much about allegedly part of Muslim teachings

were CREATED, WRITTEN, PRODUCED AND SHIPPED INTO MIDDLE EAST BY THE US GOVENRMENT AT A COST OF

$100'S OF millions !!

HERE'S THE STORY ON THAT --



The Jihad Schoolbook Scandal...

Why has the US been Shipping Muslim Extremist Schoolbooks into Afghanistan...for 20 Years?

By Jared Israel (EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES)




The US spent $100's of millions shooting down Soviet helicopters yet didn't spend a penny helping Afghanis rebuild their infrastructure and institutions.

They also spent millions producing jihad preaching, fundamentalist textbooks and shipping them off to Afghanistan. These were the same text books the Western media discussed in shocked tones and told their audiences were used by fundamentalist teachers to brainwash their charges and to inculcate in young Afghanis a jihad mindset, hatred of foreigners and non-Muslims etc.


Have you heard about the Afghan Jihad schoolbook scandal?

Or perhaps I should say, "Have you heard about the Afghan Jihad schoolbook scandal that's waiting to happen?"

Because it has been almost unreported in the Western media that the US government shipped, and continues to ship, millions of Islamist textbooks into Afghanistan.

Only one English-speaking newspaper we could find has investigated this issue: the Washington Post. The story appeared March 23rd.

Washington Post investigators report that during the past twenty years the US has spent millions of dollars producing fanatical schoolbooks, which were then distributed in Afghanistan.

"The primers, which were filled with talk of jihad and featured drawings of guns, bullets, soldiers and mines, have served since then as the Afghan school system's core curriculum. Even the Taliban used the American-produced books..." -- Washington Post, 23 March 2002 (1)

According to the Post the U.S. is now "...wrestling with the unintended consequences of its successful strategy of stirring Islamic fervor to fight communism."

So the books made up the core curriculum in Afghan schools. And what were the unintended consequences? The Post reports that according to unnamed officials the schoolbooks "steeped a generation in violence."

How could this result have been unintended? Did they expect that giving fundamentalist schoolbooks to schoolchildren would make them moderate Muslims?

Nobody with normal intelligence could expect to distribute millions of violent Islamist schoolbooks without influencing school children towards violent Islamism. Therefore one would assume that the unnamed US officials who, we are told, are distressed at these "unintended consequences" must previously have been unaware of the Islamist content of the schoolbooks.

But surely someone was aware. The US government can't write, edit, print and ship millions of violent, Muslim fundamentalist primers into Afghanistan without high officials in the US government approving those primers.

http://www.tenc.net/articles/jared/jihad.htm



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1. "The US spent $100's of millions shooting down Soviet helicopters yet didn't spend a penny helping

Afghanis rebuild their infrastructure and institutions."

We hear the same distaste for "foreign aid" to help rebuild shattered countries today. Even though our (nonmilitary) foreign aid budget is small by European standards, it is never very popular with the right and some on the left. Rebuilding shattered "infrastructure and institutions" in another country is always a tough sell, even when we have plenty of examples, e.g. Afghanistan, of what can happen when we just tell them to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.

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2. This is nutzz....

bookmarking for later

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4. Want to add - because so many here fear the religious right -- how FAKE all of this is .....

RW wealthy spent $42,575,295 of their own money creating FAKE fear of Islam in America --

PLUS the tab we picked up for the FAKE Jihad text books -- a scam our government ran

for the rightwing or the CIA -- who knows?


All told, in running these two FAKE operations it cost a minimum of $200 million --

possibly much more --


Now -- let's think about how much they might have spent on financing the Religious Right

in America -- ???!!!!


The GOP actually gave start-up funding for the Christian Coalition --

Richard Scaife funded Dobson's group -- and other rw wealthy financed Bauer's org.

How much more was spent to create this boogie man so many actually fear?



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[WillyT]

3. HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!!

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:hi:

:kick:

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5. I see the name David Horowitx of the RW Newsmax is all over this mess.

There seems to be no end to the distasteful (or worse) things that go on anymore.