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

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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."

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/conservatives-claim-antitax-crusader-secretly-leading-muslim-indoctrination/

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