US funds restoration of global Islamic sites updated 8/24/2010 5:53:54 PM ET
WASHINGTON — The good will tour of the Middle East by the imam behind the proposed mosque near ground zero is just part of the U.S. government's efforts to reach out to the Muslim world. This year, the Obama administration will spend nearly $6 million to restore 63 historic and cultural sites, including mosques and minarets, in 55 nations, according to State Department documents. Under a program established by Congress in 2001, the department will fund at least five projects in as many countries at a cost of more than $271,000. The contributions include $76,135 for the 16th century Grand Mosque in Tongxin, China, and $67,500 for the 18th century Golden Mosque in Lahore, Pakistan. An additional $62,169 will be spent on restoring a 19th century minaret in Mauritania's ancient city of Tichitt; $50,437 for the Sundarwala Burj, a 16th century Islamic Monument in New Delhi, and $15,450 to restore the 18th century Gobarau Minaret in Katsina, Nigeria. The amount spent on mosque restoration projects is a fraction of the total in the 2010 Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation, which also will fund projects to restore Christian and Buddhist sites as well as museums, forts and palaces......................>>>>.....................>>>>........................http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38838568
People in this country don't have jobs, are losing their homes, economy is in terrible shape, and our national debt is going thru the roof and the President is giving away our tax dollars to rebuild global art. Talk about redistribution of wealth and inflicting pain on the people of this country.
Isn't it special what we are doing for a billion ungrateful people who want us all beheaded?
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
Isn't it special what we are doing for a billion ungrateful people who want us all beheaded?
I think the powers that be(all over the world) are changing religion into culture definitions.......it used to be the charge of church 'leaders' and they suck(not one over another).........just change the lingo for the next generations and it will become the same with a different name and legislation........
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
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