Do you have a link to the thread, or a suggestion for a search (name, etc.)? I would like to read up on that one. Thanks.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1029524/posts From Daniel Pipes (months before Bush appointment):
"These admirers overlook the following unsavory facts about Abou El Fadl: (1) The published essays in this collection (roughly half the total) first appeared in The Minaret, house organ of the Islamic Center of Southern California, a leading militant Islamic institution. (2) Abou El Fadl has acknowledged giving money to the Holy Land Foundation of Richardson, Texas, an organization President Bush subsequently closed down because it raised money for Hamas, called by the president "one of the deadliest terrorist organizations in the world today." (3) Abou El Fadl speaks for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, alleged recently to be one of Islam's stateside image custodians that are "little more than shills for terrorist organizations." Abou El Fadl, sad to say, is just another Muslim extremist."