If the GOP is stumped for ideas on what to do in case it wins, how about the topic of 'zakat' (Islamic money)?

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Obama's speech in Cairo over a year ago pledged to improve zakat for Islamists in the US. Zakat is apparently an Islamic financial charitable obligation, per Obama's speech. (Have Gingrich, Rove, Romney or the others gone on book tours explaining this term and what it means for Americans?) From Cairo speech, June 2009:

• "The fifth issue that we must address together is religious freedom....

Freedom of religion is central to the ability of peoples to live together. We must always examine the ways in which we protect it.

For instance, in the United States,

• rules on charitable giving have made it

harder for Muslims to

• fulfill their religious obligation.

That is why I am committed to working with American Muslims to ensure

• that they can fulfill zakat."...

Some 'jurists' claim that charitable Zakat (or Zakah) obligations can only go

• to fund jihad (for Allah).

In the past some Islamic charities have been found by the US and congress to be sponsoring terrorist activities. Now, Obama says such accusations by the US were 'hardships' for Muslims, and he will remove the shackles. In so doing, he says the US will be "winning goodwill in the international community."...

• That Obama deemed he was addressing the "Muslim World" gave previously unrealized form to jihad, per Spengler:

• 6/2/09, Spengler, Asia Times: "For the US president to address the "Muslim world" on the subject of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and by implication

frame the matter in religious terms,

• is to define the matter as a jihad, and to rule out a peaceful solution -

unless, of course, the president were to tell Muslims to abandon their religious scruples in order

• to accept the existence of the state of Israel."...

Reference on what qualifies for zakah, June 14, 2002, "Can Zakah be given to construct Mosques and Islamic Centers?"

• Reference, 8/12/10, "Lugar: 'Republicans better have ideas'"

topic via mention on Bob Grant show today

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