The perp is in the middle
From the Washington Times article by Bill Gertz:
He had run afoul of a key aide to Mr. England, Hasham Islam, who confronted Mr. Coughlin during a meeting several weeks ago when Mr. Islam sought to have Mr. Coughlin soften his views on Islamist extremism.
“Mr. Coughlin was accused directly by Mr. Islam of being a Christian zealot or extremist “with a pen,” according to defense officials. Mr. Coughlin appears to have become one of the first casualties in the war of ideas with Islamism.
The officials said Mr. Coughlin was let go because he had become “too hot” or controversial within the Pentagon.
Misguided Pentagon officials, including Mr. Islam and Mr. England, have initiated an aggressive “outreach” program to U.S. Muslim groups that critics say is lending credibility to what has been identified as a budding support network for Islamist extremists, including front groups for the radical Muslim Brotherhood.
Mr. Coughlin 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. Members of one of the identified front groups, the Islamic Society of North America, has been hosted by Mr. England at the Pentagon.”
Now, aren’t we all happy little Republicans who have been falling on our swords for 7 years for a man like TROP George Bush! /s
The election can’t come one day too soon! When it comes to selling out America to Mohammedanism, which Democrat, let alone Republican, candidate is worse than Bush and his Mohammedanism loving cabal?
Horrible news. NO doubt in my mind. The US is obeying its masters on the Arabian peninsula. The Jizyah tax is being paid again.
Folks, were not talking about England, the new home of Londonistan.
Instead, we’re talking about a guy in our Defense Department, whose name happens to be “England”, and who is surrendering to multiculturalism.
how could we allow this,
Is Stephen Coughlin’s “offending” piece available to the public? If the Pentagon is going to reject it, the people should have it so the people know what kind of blooming idiots are “defending” us.
I found an article on Hesham Islam here, with photo. The problem is that his name was misspelled.
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=47795
This matter of possible infiltration of Islamists inside the No. 2 Defense position raises some concern about the obsessive politically correct DoD. Let us ask ourselves a question. Does the Deputy Secretary have outreach officers on his staff to Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Confucians, Hindus, B’Hai, Zoroastrians, Wiccans and garden variety atheists?
Assuming the answer is no, then clearly he is bending over backwards to address complaints from Muslim Brotherhood front groups. Pity.
He just might have to give back that Henry M. “Scoop” Jackson award that JINSA gave him in Israel.
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.
btt
Does anyone have any dirt on Hasham Islam and hsi affiliations?