By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor on May 24, 2017
Tulsi Gabbard Gordon, The news the past few days has been tough. For so many in Manchester, what began as just another day, ended in a horrific tragedy as a terrorist set off a bomb killing innocent civilians at a concert hall. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack. Today, we are getting reports out of the Philippines that an ISIS-linked attack has taken the lives of 21 souls. This highlights yet again how critical it is for us to work together to defeat these terrorists, and the ideology fueling their terror. It’s impossible to talk seriously about this issue without acknowledging that just a few days before this terrible attack, President Trump signed a $460 billion, ten year arms deal with Saudi Arabia—a brutal theocracy that oppresses its own people, and has spent billions of dollars exporting their extreme Wahhabi Salafist ideology around the world—the very same ideology fueling terror groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda. Additionally, Saudi Arabia, along with Qatar, Turkey, and other countries, are directly and indirectly supporting these terrorist groups with money, weapons, and intelligence. So our big weapons deal will make it so US weapons are likely to end up in the hands of terrorists, and to be used in war crimes against Yemeni civilians. Trump has condemned deals like this in the past. In 2011, Trump wrote about Saudi Arabia in his book, “It’s the world’s biggest funder of terrorism. Saudi Arabia funnels our petrodollars, our very own money, to fund the terrorists that seek to destroy our people while the Saudis rely on us to protect them.” If the US is to supply Saudi Arabia with weapons we should, at the very least, demand that they:
My bill, HR 608, the Stop Arming Terrorists Act, will help to address this issue by prohibiting taxpayer dollars from being used to directly or indirectly support armed militants allied with terrorist groups like al-Qaeda, and would stop our practice of funneling money through countries like Saudi Arabia who support these terrorist groups. Will you add your name as a citizen co-sponsor to my
Stop Arming Terrorists Act? This bill will require our government to abide by the same laws that apply to its citizens.
As always, mahalo for your support and allowing me the privilege of serving you.
Aloha,
Tulsi
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Is it not sheer hypocrisy that Trump funds terrorists with his $460 billion deal, yet at another place and time he goes on about Iran =
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- End their spread of radical Wahhabi Salafist exclusivist ideology through madrassas and mosques around the world, which is undermining moderate Muslims, from Pakistan to Indonesia, to Europe.
- End their brutal attack on the sovereign country of Yemen, which is resulting in the suffering and death of hundreds of thousands of civilians.
- End its arming and support of al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups in Syria and other parts of the world.
- Stop oppression and persecution of dissenters, women and the LGBT community.
- Allow Christians, Hindus, Muslims, atheists and other religious minorities to worship or not worship as they please in Saudi Arabia, without being arrested and punished.
My bill, HR 608, the Stop Arming Terrorists Act, will help to address this issue by prohibiting taxpayer dollars from being used to directly or indirectly support armed militants allied with terrorist groups like al-Qaeda, and would stop our practice of funneling money through countries like Saudi Arabia who support these terrorist groups. Will you add your name as a citizen co-sponsor to my
Stop Arming Terrorists Act? This bill will require our government to abide by the same laws that apply to its citizens.
As always, mahalo for your support and allowing me the privilege of serving you.
Aloha,
Tulsi
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President Trump says Iran must stop funding terrorists and militias
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Published on 22 May 2017
President Trump said Iran must immediately stop its financial and military support for terrorists and militias on May 22.
