Islamophobic Americans Help Renovate Mosques Worldwide

We taxpayers are helping renovate mosques all over the world including Bulgaria, Pakistan, Mali, Tunisia, Afghanistan, Benin, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Albania, Egypt, Tunisia, the Maldives, Yemen, Turkmenistan, Tanzania, Uganda, Azerbaijan, Sudan, Serbia and Montenegro, to name a few.

The last, Montenegro, for example, has a broken fountain, which worshipers use prior to worship and prayer. When our church here in Las Vegas was faced with renovations (and we always are) we put extra bucks in the offering, have bake sales and fundraisers, and people that have the knowledge and physical strength to do the renovations volunteer. While building the “Miracle League” baseball field so disabled kids could play baseball, secularist judges and city officials blocked us every step of the way. It took five years to complete a project that should have taken a few months. One judge tried to get our status as a religious institution taken away because we have non-religious groups meet there, such as Alcoholics Anonymous, widows’ support groups, divorce support groups, etc.

We try work and contribute to take care of ourselves but the government works to damage us. Mosques in terrorist anti-American states get taxpayer help. Justification?

State Department spokeswoman Nicole Thompson: “It is helping to preserve our cultural heritage. It is not just to preserve religious structures.  It is not to preserve a religion. It is to help us as global inhabitants preserve cultures.” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calls this “soft power”. You know, be nice to them and they won’t kill us. That’s worked well.

This is all financed through The U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP). So what happened to the separation of church and state that the Left applies to Christians? From a 2003 ruling by the Dept of Justice: “That advice is provided in the following paragraph that appears in every AFCP request for grant proposals… ‘The establishment clause of the U.S. Constitution permits the government to include religious objects and sites within an aid program under certain conditions. For example, an item with a religious connection (including a place of worship) may be the subject of a cultural preservation grant if the item derives its primary significance and is nominated solely on the basis of architectural, artistic, historical or other cultural (not religious) criteria.’” No, the Establishment Clause has no such thing in it. 

Well, how come old churches like mine don’t qualify? The short answer is because it’s a Christian church and our government does everything it can to discriminate against Christians in this country. To paraphrase Clinton, its “soft discrimination”, but it’s applied nonetheless.

We’re even helping with mosques in Cairo, home of the Muslim Brotherhood, one of the most violent terrorist groups in history, and the father and director of most existing terrorist groups. We’re even giving them computers and upgrades. Heaven knows our church, and how many other churches, could use new computers and software.

Then again, the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Code of Federal Regulations states: “USAID funds may not be used for the acquisition, construction, or rehabilitation of structures to the extent that those structures are used for inherently religious activities.”

So how does that square peg fit in that round hole? USAID press officer Annette Aulton:

“Historic and cultural preservation activities have a clearly secular purpose as do activities to promote tourism.” “With respect to the computer center in the mosque in Tajikistan, this activity seems to be part of a larger program aimed at reducing social conflict.”… “With respect to the computer equipment provided to the Imam in Mali, there really isn’t enough information to do an analysis. There are references to promotion of the town’s historical, cultural and religious heritage, which sounds like a secular purpose.”

Taxpayer money obviously should not go for these renovations. The terrorist states have enough money to fix them up, or these mosques can do what our little church does, pony up extra bucks and have volunteers do the work.