Any muslim capable of obtaining a security clearance to work at the White House has been thouroughly vetted. Of that I am quite sure.
Suhail Khan, the White House Aide mentioned in the article, is the son of the late Mahboob Khan, a California cleric at whose mosque Ayman Al Zawahiri raised funds for Al Qaeda in 1995.
Reminds me of another case...
Abdullah Al Arian, an inttern for Congressman David Bonior, is the son of Sami Al Arian, who is under indictment for raising money for Palestinian Islamic Jihad and funding terrorist attacks on Israel.
I'm not as confident in the vetting of Suhail Khan as you appear to be.
and they keep coming.........
The Bush administration has been careful to separate the terrorists from Muslims generally. The problem is he has done so in the company of some Muslim leaders who do not preach or practice what the president says they do.
As the New Republic reported in its Nov. 7, 2001, issue, on the afternoon of Sept. 26 of that year, the president met with 15 prominent Muslim and Arab-Americans at the White House. At that time he said, "The teachings of Islam are teachings of peace and good. " Writer Franklin Foer noted that many of the leaders had not unambiguously rejected terror as the president suggested. "To the president's left sat Dr. Yahya Basha, president of the American Muslim Council, an organization whose leaders have repeatedly called Hamas'freedom fighters.' Also in attendance was Salam Al-Marayati, executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, who on the afternoon of Sept. 11 told a Los Angeles public radio audience that'we should put the State of Israel on the suspect list.' And sitting right next to President Bush was Muzammil Siddiqi, president of the Islamic Society of North America, who (in the fall of 2000) told a Washington crowd chanting pro-Hezbollah slogans,'America has to learn if you remain on the side of injustice, the wrath of God will come. "'
Some will claim this is guilt by association. It is more like an association of the guilty. Large numbers of such people have invaded this nation through immigration, intent on causing us harm. The Justice Department is right to find them, root them out and arrest or deport them. The sooner, the better - before they can do more damage to our nation and our people.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/ct20030225.shtml