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Religious Right Leader Blames Obama's Israel Policy For Tornadoes

Laurie Cardoza-Moore, the head of the Christian Zionist group Proclaiming Justice to the Nations (PJTN), blames President Obama’s recent speech on the Mideast crisis for the deadly tornado outbreak in May. Cardoza-Moore is a Tea Party(link is external) and anti-Muslim activist(link is external) who is funding the lawsuit(link is external) to block the construction of a mosque in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, which argued that Islam is not a religion(link is external) and that consequently Muslims shouldn’t have the constitutional right to build a house of worship. Congresswoman and likely presidential candidate Michele Bachmann addressed PJTN(link is external) last year just before Cardoza-Moore held a fundraiser for her campaign(link is external), and Religious Right radio host Janet Parshall won(link is external) the group’s “Tree of Life” award earlier this year.

Like Janet Porter, another Christian Zionist leader(link is external) who said President Obama’s approach to Israel and support for legal abortion caused the tornado outbreak(link is external), Cardoza-Moore holds Obama responsible for the recent tornadoes and the resulting deaths of hundreds of Americans(link is external):

The head of a pro-Israel group says that country's prime minister has replaced the president of the United States as leader of the free world.

Laurie Cardoza-Moore, president of Nashville-based Proclaiming Justice to the Nations (PJTN), is trying to mobilize Americans to take a stand for the nation of Israel. (See earlier story) She is concerned that Muslim countries are trying to muster U.N. support for a unilateral declaration of Palestinian statehood, which could be approved by the General Assembly in September.

The PJTN president believes that Obama's treatment of Israel has already had consequences.

"President Obama is bringing us down. If you look at what happened after Obama made that speech, look at the weather patterns that we had. Day after day, horrific tornadoes [came] blazing across this country [and] hundreds of people [lost] their lives," she recalls. Cardoza-Moore adds that history shows that every nation that has ever turned its back on Israel was brought down to ruin.