Does Obama campaign email indicate illegal electioneering in Ohio mosques?
comment by Jerry Gordon
Yesterday, we posted on the IRS investigation of the UCC, Obama’s Protestant denomination, that may have committed violations last June in Hartford at the group’s Synod regarding politicking by the Obama campaign team.
Today, Patrick Poole, on his Central Ohioans Against Terrorism blog has an even more intriguing example of the Obama campaign: politicking at Mosques in Ohio in what is shaping up as a very tight democratic primary race.
Poole notes that in 2006 a group of liberal church leaders and rabbis, “We Believe” filed a compliant about potential violations by World Harvest - a conservative Christian group who was alleged to have engaged in politicking for then GOP gubernatiorial candidate Ken Blackwell. “We Believe” railed against World Harvest as ‘theocrats and ‘Christocrats’.
Poole speculates whether “We Believe” will protest this patent politicking of Ohio Mosques by the Obama campaign. He doesn’t believe they will, somehow we don’t either.
Read this excerpt from an email sent by the Obama campaign to Columbus, Ohio Mosques and you be the judge, whether there is something going on at Friday prayers on February 29th other than chants of ‘Allahu Akbar’ and those fiery sermons suggesting Jihad against Hillary Clinton in next Tuesday’s crucial primary vote.
Thanks so much for volunteering to help Senator Barack Obama turn out the Muslim vote inshalla. On Friday March 29th we want to have Muslim volunteers pray at the Mosques during Juma at around 12:45. After prayer when people are socializing outside we want to have the volunteer pass out Obama civil rights literature, faith based literature, general literature, stickers and bumper stickers. In addition we want the volunteers to emphasize that the election is the following Tuesday and encourage them to vote. That way we can reach every Muslim that went to Mosque the Friday before the election inshalla. Attached is a list of every Mosque in Columbus, if we have missed one please let me know ASAP. In addition if there is a particular Mosque you would prefer to attend Juma at and volunteer let me know.
by Patrick Poole, Central Ohioans Against Terrorism, February 27, 2008
In 2006, a group of local Democratic Party-aligned clergy sent a letter to IRS Commissioner demanding that World Harvest Church in Columbus be investigated for violating its tax exempt status because of their close ties to then-GOP gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell. Thirty-one Columbus-area ministers and rabbis signed the letter to the IRS, making national news. Their attorney said that World Harvest had stepped so far over the line that it could be characterized as, “Here’s the handbook from the IRS on what to do and not do. They’ve done the ‘not do’ stuff right out of the book.”
These clerics later organized themselves in a campaign they called “We Believe” to promote the whole slate of predictable liberal causes (the Christian clerics apparently unconcerned about Jesus’ repeated condemnations of hypocrisy). The usual suspects (Americans United for Separation of Church and State, People for the American Way, Huffington Post, et al) all jumped on board to decry this supposed destruction of the wall of separation.
Now it is 2008, and after seven years out of the White House, Democrats are pulling out all the stops. Next week’s primary elections here in Ohio are make-or-break for Hillary Clinton, and a win in Ohio for Obama would probably secure his nomination. To say that this primary is important for both candidates would be an understatement.
But there are already indications that both campaigns may be skirting campaign and tax laws in their efforts to win the Buckeye State. The Columbus Dispatch reported just a few weeks ago how both the Hillary and Obama camps are targeting pastors in the area seeking their endorsements (yes, the same thing that World Harvest pastor Rod Parsley and his church were accused of) in anticipation of the Ohio primary next Tuesday. So it’s going to be interesting to see if the “We Believe” group of local ministers and rabbis who previously protested the supposed violation of church and state, and publicly called Rod Parsley and World Harvest “theocrats” and “Christocrats” for their alleged illegal political activity, will respond with the same outrage that Barack Obama’s camp is coordinating a massive primary election push this coming Friday at Columbus-area mosques.
An email is circulating from an Obama campaign official calling for volunteers to spread out to all of the area mosques in Central Ohio this coming Friday for afternoon prayers to bring in the vote for Barack Hussein Obama (thanks to my friend ***** who forwarded me the email). (Continue Reading this Article)
February 28th, 2008 at 7:43 • opinion • Patrick Poole • Central Ohioans against terrorism • 0 Comments •
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