SUN AUG 28, 2011 AT 12:39 PM PDT
Latest wingnut myth--Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated White House
byChristian Dem in NCFollow
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There's a new meme floating around the winghutosphere--the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood has burrowed its way into the White House.
The shocking charge was first leveled by Muslim reformer Tarek Fatah during a recent speech in Toronto.
"When someone says that there is penetration of jihadi Islamists within society, do not dismiss it as some right-wing, xenophobic, racist rant," warned Fatah, a Canadian journalist.
Fatah also named "Dalia Mogahed, who writes (Obama's) speeches, who comes from the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt; and another woman, an academic, (who) was appointed in that circle."
Fatah is supposedly on our side--he's a member of Canada's Liberal Party. And yet, he spewed this in perfect wingnut fashion--no evidence to support such a claim. Hmmm--could that be why most people dismiss it as "some right-wing, xenophobic, racist rant"? And so far, there doesn't appear to be any--a search for these people next to "Muslim Brotherhood" on Yahoo and Google only turns up wingnut sites regurgitating this stuff.
Fatah's claims seem to be backed up by John Guandolo, a former FBI agent who claims that the Muslim Brotherhood managed to penetrate the Obama campaign, and had its fingers pretty deep into the Clinton and Bush administrations as well.
But Guandolo has some pretty serious credibility issues. He claims to have been forced out of the FBI by a pro-Muslim Brotherhood leadership. In reality, he was forced to resign after being caught banging the government's star witness in the William Jefferson corruption trial.
If the wingers are already focusing on destroying Obama in 2012, they need to do a lot better than this.
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