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DoD Spec. on Islam gets Sacked for Offending Pro-Muslim Official

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Posted by DepotGuy 2008-01-04 14:42|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top
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#1 unlawful termination lawsuit, maybe? since muslim extremism ( but i repeat myself) was his frickin job.

methinks hashish islamahandjob should be tossed, instead.

Posted by USN,Ret. 2008-01-04 16:03|| 2008-01-04 16:03|| Front Page Top

#2 " wrote a memorandum several months ago based on documents made public in a federal trial in Dallas that revealed a covert plan by the Muslim Brotherhood, an Egyptian-origin Islamist extremist group, to subvert the United States using front groups'

If theres real evidence the Egyptian Mo Bros are doing that, its HUGE news. I havent seen anything about it here.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2008-01-04 16:15|| 2008-01-04 16:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Bill Gertz has been on this the last couple of weeks. He been writing about this....

Posted by Sherry">Sherry 2008-01-04 17:10|| 2008-01-04 17:10|| Front Page Top

#4 This is from Inside the Ring on Dec 28th

Muslim pressure

Pro-Muslim officials at the Pentagon are putting political pressure on one of the U.S. military's most important specialists on Islamist extremism, according to defense officials.

Stephen Coughlin, a specialist on Islamic law on the Joint Staff, met recently with Hasham Islam, Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon R. England's close aide. The officials said Mr. Islam, a Muslim who is leading efforts for the Defense Department's outreach to Muslim groups, sought to convince Mr. Coughlin to take a softer line on Islam and Islamic law elements that promote extremism.

There is also evidence that a whispering campaign is under way to try and discredit Mr. Coughlin as a "Christian extremist with a pen" and force him out of the building, according to the officials.

Mr. Coughlin came under fire from pro-Muslim officials after a memorandum he wrote identified several groups that are being courted by Mr. Islam's community outreach program as front organizations for the pro-extremist Muslim Brotherhood.

Mr. Coughlin based the memorandum on documents released as evidence in a federal terrorism trial that he stated "are beginning to define the structure and outline of domestic jihad threat entities, associated nongovernmental organizations and potential terrorist or insurgent support systems."

Mr. Coughlin noted that the documents identified one of the Muslim Brotherhood front groups as the Islamic Society of North America, whose leaders were hosted by Mr. England in April at the Pentagon, raising concerns that the deputy defense secretary does not understand clearly the nature of the Islamist threat he is working against as the No. 2 official.

Mr. England has been a leading advocate of what critics in the Pentagon say is a misguided attempt to reach out to the wrong Muslims, regardless of their views, in an effort to counter Muslim extremism.

That approach has kept military and civilian officials from conducting much-needed assessments of how Muslim extremists are waging war because doing so would involving analysis of Muslim religious tenets, a politically taboo subject area.

A Pentagon spokesman had no immediate comment on the differences between Mr. Islam and Mr. Coughlin.

Posted by Sherry">Sherry 2008-01-04 17:15|| 2008-01-04 17:15|| Front Page Top

#5 If theres real evidence the Egyptian Mo Bros are doing that, its HUGE news. I havent seen anything about it here.

So you haven't been paying attention?

The evidence clearly linked Holy Land and CAIR to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, the hard-line Egyptian Islamist umbrella group and godfather of every Sunni terrorist group from Hamas to al Qaeda.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2008-01-04 17:19|| 2008-01-04 17:19|| Front Page Top

#6 Why wasn't the gutless POS England FIRED the same day ?

Posted by Woozle Elmeter 2907 2008-01-04 18:19|| 2008-01-04 18:19|| Front Page Top

#7 Exactly what does Hasham Islam do?

Posted by eLarson 2008-01-04 20:38|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2008-01-04 20:38|| Front Page Top

#8 Fine. Stop trying to understand pisslam and pisslamists. Just kill 'em...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2008-01-04 20:44|| 2008-01-04 20:44|| Front Page Top

#9 Methinks Mr. England is trying too hard to live up to his surname.

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2008-01-04 20:56|| 2008-01-04 20:56|| Front Page Top

#10 "Exactly what does Hasham Islam do?"

Apparently his job is to infiltrate the DOD and whine about islamophobia when a DOD analyst clearly and concisely expounds on the threat posed to the USA by islam.

Posted by MarkZ 2008-01-04 20:59|| 2008-01-04 20:59|| Front Page Top

#11 Fine. Replace Coughlin with Robert Spenser with Charles Johnson as an alternate.

Posted by Harry Angolurong8712 2008-01-04 21:10|| 2008-01-04 21:10|| Front Page Top

#12 For what it's worth I intend to contact US Rep. Sue Myrick (R NC) to look into Coughlin's firing. She organized the House of Reps "anti-jihad/terror" caucus. She is willing to listen to and answer mail from citizens outside her district.

I wonder if the report/memorandum Coughlin put together will still see the light of day?

Posted by MarkZ 2008-01-04 21:11|| 2008-01-04 21:11|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Sherry">Sherry 2008-01-04 23:54|| 2008-01-04 23:54|| Front Page Top

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