Conservatives claim anti-tax crusader secretly leading Muslim indoctrination

It has been alleged by some fellow "conservatives" that anti-tax, and anti-government "crusader" Grover Norquist is a MUSLIM (if he is, can you still call him a "Crusader"? Wouldn't he be a "Jihadist"?).

I have no idea if there is ANY fact behind this -- but, in the minds of his fellow anti-tax, anti-government "activists", does it really matter?

Isn't it amazing how these folks can always find some sort of "impurity" with folks who were their "heroes" just a couple of years ago. No one is quite orthodox, quite pure enough.

This from Raw Story -- please follow link to original.


Conservatives claim anti-tax crusader secretly leading Muslim indoctrination

By Eric W. Dolan
Thursday, January 6th, 2011 -- 10:11 am

Are a growing cross-section of American conservatives really secret Muslims bent on destroying western civilization?

Answer: No.

But that's not stopping right-wing activist Frank Gaffney from claiming the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) had been infiltrated by radical Muslims because of the inclusion of Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist and former Bush staffer Suhail Khan.

American Conservative Union (ACU), the oldest conservative lobbying organization in the country which hosts CPAC, is involved in a "stealthy effort to bring Shariah" to the United States, according to Gaffney.

"This is a ticking time bomb for the conservative community," he told the conservative conspiracy website WorldNetDaily. "An influence operation is contributing materially to the defeat of our country."

Gaffney alleges that Norquist and Khan are secretly working for the Muslim Brotherhood, a radical Islamist group, and trying to influence conservative groups in a plot to "Islamize" America. Both Khan and Norquist are ACU board members.

Khan, a conservative activist who previously worked for the Bush administration, allegedly has ties to the radical Islamists from his time as consultant for The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). He has also served on committees at the Islamic Society of North America, according to Gaffney.

Gaffney also claimed that Khan's father was a founding member of the Muslim Brotherhood in America. In a report by Talking Points Memo, Khan called the allegation "laughable" and said his father was from India, noting that the Muslim Brotherhood was formed in Egypt.

He is now a senior fellow for Christian-Muslim Understanding at the Institute for Global Engagement.

Norquist, founder of the conservative Americans for Tax Reform, was also accused of secretly providing the Muslim Brotherhood with access into the highest reaches of the conservative movement.

"Grover Norquist is credentialing the perpetrators of this Muslim Brotherhood influence operation," Gaffney said. "This is part of tradecraft, to get people who have standing in a community to give it to people who lack it, so they can do what they're assigned to do in terms of subversion. We are in a war, and he has been working with the enemy for over a decade."

Gaffney is no stranger to making wildly unsubstantiated claims. He said in 2009 that there was mounting evidence that President Barack Obama "not only identifies with Muslims, but actually may still be one himself."

"The man now happy to have his Islamic-rooted middle name featured prominently has engaged in the most consequential bait-and-switch since Adolf Hitler duped Neville Chamberlain over Czechoslovakia at Munich," he added.

CPAC was facing a boycott from a number of conservative groups for inviting the conservative gay Republican group GOProud to the conference. The Family Research Council, Concerned Women For America, American Values, the American Principles Project, the Capital Research Center, the Center for Military Readiness, Liberty Counsel, and Liberty University have said they will not attend the conference in February.