Saudi Connections and U.S. Funded?

I've been looking for an article on the ISNA, located in Plainfield, IN, that gives some credible information on the connections between the Muslim organization and their Saudi benefactors, and some of their more nefarious alumni. I was beginning to think that all I would find was inflammatory panic-driven speech. But I have read other articles and heard some of the folks mentioned in this FrontPage expose, including comments from Steven Emerson and Sherrie Gossett, both of whom I find quite believable.

But while Mattson’s smiling image may come to dominate the mainstream media in years to come, it is Gossett who caught perhaps the true face of ISNA. In her interview with the Islamic organization’s spokesman, who called AIM’s coverage of Islamic radicalism “scandalous” and “criminal”, she was harshly told: “You will be hurt, you will be pained by this if you continue to write such things.” Which is really nothing to smile about.

I kept looking around and found this from Daniel Pipes blog:

Mohamed El-sanousi, director of community outreach and communications for ISNA, told Gossett his organization received grants in 2003 and 2004 from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration of the Department of Health and Human Services. The money did not save anyone from substance abuse or improve mental health, however. Instead, it went to teach other members of the Wahhabi lobby how to milk the government: "We used the grants to train Muslim community leaders in how to apply for grants to do social services," El-sanousi explained.

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