Tom Trento

Florida Security Council Fundraises Off 'Infiltrated' Conservative Movement

Ryan J. Reilly | February 22, 2011, 12:10PM

Even now that the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) has wrapped, the war over the supposed Muslim "infiltration" of the conservative movement is still going strong.

Tom Trento of the Florida Security Council wrote a fundraising e-mail asking potential donors for "financial support today to continue our mission to expose the Muslim Brotherhood in America." The e-mail also features an ambush interview with Suhail Khan, the former Bush administration official and member of the board of the American Conservative Union.

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Topics: Suhail Khan, Tom Trento

Suhail Khan

CPAC Banned Frank Gaffney Over Baseless Anti-Muslim Charges

Ryan J. Reilly | February 15, 2011, 2:30PM

The American Conservative Union banned Frank Gaffney from speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference over the past two years because members of the board who looked into the charges he made against other board members found them to be baseless, a source close to the board tells TPM.

As first reported by Alex Seitz-Wald of Think Progress, the board decided not to invite Gaffney to speak, CPAC Chairman David Keene said.

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Topics: CPAC, Frank Gaffney, Grover Norquist, Suhail Khan

Frank Gaffney

Frank Gaffney And CPAC's Alleged Muslim 'Infiltrator' Face Off (VIDEO)

Rachel Slajda | January 21, 2011, 9:32AM

Anderson Cooper, the master of the TV match-up, had on both terrorism "expert" and sharia alarmist Frank Gaffney and Suhail Khan, a board member of the Amercian Conservative Union whom Gaffney has accused of being an operative of Muslim jihadists.

Earlier this month, Gaffney took to World Net Daily to accuse Khan, a Republican who served in the second Bush administration, of being a jihadist infiltrator to the Conservative Political Action Conference. Gaffney said Khan was an operative of the Muslim Brotherhood, a catch-all group that no longer operates in the United States, but which Gaffney and others connect to prominent Muslim groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations and Muslims For America.

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Topics: CPAC, Frank Gaffney, Sharia, Suhail Khan

CPAC

Right-Wingers Claim Muslim Brotherhood Has Infiltrated CPAC

Jillian Rayfield | January 5, 2011, 3:11PM

The right-wing site World Net Daily and conservative columnist Frank Gaffney came up with a new reason this week to hate the Conservative Political Action Conference, arguing that it has been infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood thanks to Grover Norquist, the Republican group Muslims For America, and Ex-Bush staffer Suhail Khan.

In an interview with TPM today, Khan described how "every few months there's a different iteration of [Gaffney] and his cohorts' wild accusations," but it is simply untrue, and a part of Gaffney's "tempter tantrum" that he has been marginalized by the conservative movement.

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Topics: CPAC, Frank Gaffney, Grover Norquist, Suhail Khan, WorldNetDaily

Suhail Khan

Muslim Ex-Bush Official: 'Intern Spy' Hunt Threatens Careers Of Good Americans

Justin Elliott | October 16, 2009, 5:42PM

Suhail Khan has seen this happen before. He was working as a senior political appointee for the Bush White House through Sept. 11, 2001, until this past January.

The same crowd of what he calls "professional bigots" -- people, he says, like Frank Gaffney and Dave Gaubatz -- have launched campaigns against specific Muslims working in the government, accusing them of terrorist sympathies.

The only thing different about the call by four House Republicans this week for authorities to investigate alleged "infiltration" of the Hill by Muslim interns, Khan told TPMmuckraker today, is that "they're not going after individuals by name."

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Topics: Anti-Terrorism Caucus, CAIR, Chris Gaubatz, Christian-Muslim Understanding at the Institute for Global Engagement, Dave Gaubatz, Muslim Mafia, Muslim Staffers Association, Sue Myrick, Suhail Khan