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by Sarah Pulliam Bailey August 20, 2010
Activist preacher and editor of the left-wing Christian magazine Sojourners, Jim Wallis, has admitted that Sojourners has received funding in the past from liberal billionaire George Soros' Open Society Institute.
Last month, Marvin Olasky asked Wallis to admit his affiliations on the left when reported on the money from Soros in World magazine.
George Soros, one of the leading billionaire leftists—he has financed groups promoting abortion, atheism, same-sex marriage, and gargantuan government—bankrolled Sojourners with a $200,000 grant in 2004. A year later, here's how Jim rebutted a criticism of "religious progressives" for being allied with Soros and MoveOn.org: "I know of no connections to those liberal funds and groups that are as direct as the Religious Right's ties to right-wing funders."Read the Rest at Christianitytoday.com
Since then Sojourners has received at least two more grants from Soros organizations. Sojourners revenues have more than tripled—from $1,601,171 in 2001-2002 to $5,283,650 in 2008-2009—as secular leftists have learned to use the religious left to elect Obama and others.
Here's more on Wallis and another from American Thinker, and here's an article by wnd.com.
Back in 2004, Daniel Pipes wrote an article titled, George Soros Teaches the FBI Tolerance. Here's an excerpt:
The special agent in charge of FBI's Washington Field Office has participated in a new initiative called the Promising Practices Guide: Developing Partnerships Between Law Enforcement and American Muslim, Arab, and Sikh Communities. This is a worrisome development because that guide's adoption could significantly impede the war on terror.
Funded by the Soros and Whiting foundations and created at Northeastern University, the guide presents its goal as shaping "a basic curriculum for future law enforcement and community training activities." At first glance, this sounds promising, as it offers ways to take advantage of Arab, Muslim and Sikh unique "linguistic skills, information, and cultural insights" to develop new counterterrorism initiatives.
But the guide's authors, Deborah A. Ramirez, Sasha Cohen O'Connell and Rabia Zafar, quickly alert the reader as to their true agenda. "The most dangerous threats in this war" they write, "are rooted in the successful propagation of anger and fear directed at unfamiliar cultures and people." The most dangerous threat, they say, is not the very real violence of Islamist terror but the alleged bias of American authorities against some minority populations. The guide might present itself as an aide to counterterrorism but its real purpose is to deflect attention from national security to the privileging of select communities.
Of course, then there's the Soros-Funded International Crisis Group who's board looks like this:
- Morton Abramowitz, Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and Former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey
- Kenneth Adelman, Former U.S. Ambassador and Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
- Zbigniew Brzezinski, Former U.S. National Security Advisor to the President
- Wesley Clark, Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander
- Stanley Fischer, Vice-Chairman, Citigroup Inc. and former First Deputy Managing Director of International Monetary Fund
- Carla Hills, Former U.S. Secretary of Housing; former U.S. Trade Representative
- Swanee Hunt, Founder and Chair of Women Waging Peace; former U.S. Ambassador to Austria
- Elliott F. Kulick, Chairman, Pegasus International
- Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, Novelist and journalist
- Douglas Schoen, Founding Partner of Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates
- George Soros, Chairman, Open Society Institute
- William O. Taylor, Chairman Emeritus, The Boston Globe
Of which it receives it's funding from "Foundation and private sector donors" like this:
- The Atlantic Philanthropies
- Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Ford Foundation
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Flora Hewlett Foundation
- Henry Luce Foundation
- John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- John Merck Fund
- Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
- Open Society Institute
- Ploughshares Fund
- Sigrid Rausing Trust
- Sasakawa Peace Foundation
- Sarlo Foundation of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund
- United States Institute of Peace
- Fundacão Oriente."
Which brings us to the beginning. Whenever you track these entities, the same groups keep coming up. Every time. Tweet