"Outreach" Mania: The U.S. State Department Spends Your Tax Dollars For Ramadan

Pamela from Atlas Shrugs:

Your State Department at Work: RESOURCES FOR RAMADAN 2009 FOR US EMBASSIES WORLDWIDE

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. (here)

The Bureau of International Information Programs (IIP) has assembled a range of innovative and traditional tools to support Posts’ outreach activities during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

What is wrong with our leaders? Are they worried that they won’t be invited to those cool Ramadan parties? The Islamists have been actively at war with us for 30 years and generally at war with western civilization for well over a thousand years, and still we pay lip service to these people in a way we never did with Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan or the Soviet Union. Is it because the Muslims commit sadism and murder in the name of religion and not country? If anything, I would think that would make their evil acts all the more contemptible.

Seriously, can you imagine every Embassy and consulate putting up a Menorah and having some Rabbis as speakers via a webcast?

Can you imagine if we had the stations of the cross put on the walls of all of our Embassies, Consulates, and other posts, as well as the many DOS buildings across the country, including C street?

Can you imagine if the Buddha were revered and we had some monks coming to do a meditation session with all of the officers of each Embassy, consulate, etc.?

Why aren’t priests, pastors, etc. invited during Christmas to bless or talk about Christianity in the US?

Can we get printed and distributed Hare Krishna posters for all of our posts and reach massive audiences?

I mean, put it in reverse and see how crazy it is. Absolutely nuts.

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