An Aug. 27 WorldNetDaily article by Bob Unruh cites “a former FBI special agent in Washington” to claim that “Infiltration of the federal government by members of the radical Muslim Brotherhood is worse than some have warned recently.” But Unruh won’t tell you that the agent’s personal life has discredited him and cost him his job at the FBI.
Unruh writes:
Former FBI special agent John Guandolo says Obama’s ties to agents for the Muslim Brotherhood are even more extensive.
“The level of penetration in the last three administrations is deep,” he said. “For this president, it even goes back to his campaign with Muslim Brotherhood folks working with him then.”
Equally alarming, the Brotherhood also has placed several operatives and sympathizers within key positions in Homeland Security and the U.S. military, notes Guandolo, a former Marine Corps officer.
The veteran federal agent says such infiltration threatens national security, because the U.S. leadership of the international Brotherhood has outlined a secret plan to “destroy” the U.S. and other Western governments “from within.”
Note Unruh’s credibility-building descriptors for Guandolo — “former Marine Corps officer,” “veteran federal agent.” But Unruh doesn’t mention why Guandolo is no longer with the FBI.
Talking Points Memo reported that the married Guandolo resigned from the FBI after superiors found a list he wrote of his sexual conquests with agents and a confidential source. Notably, Guandolo had an affair with a key witness in the corruption case of former Louisiana congressman William Jefferson while simultaneously soliciting a $75,000 donation from her to an anti-terrorism group. Even Guandolo admitted that he may have jeopardized the Jefferson investigation with his sexual behavior.
Given WND’s long-documented hatred of deviant sexual behavior, why is it quoting a philandering adulterer as a trusted source?
The rest of Unruh’s article is problematic as well. It carries the subheadline “FBI: Penetration by radical agents worse than thought,” though Guandolo is no longer an FBI agent.
Unruh also repeats attacks by so-called “Muslim reformer” Tarek Fatah on Obama administration members Dalia Mogahed and Rashad Hussain. Unruh uncritically passed along Fatah’s claim that Mogahed “writes (Obama’s) speeches”; in fact, she’s a researcher who was consulted on Obama’s 2009 Cairo speech.
Unruh further wrote of Mogahed:
Also helping with the president’s speeches and policies toward Muslims is Mogahed, whose pro-Islamist statements have been posted on the Muslim Brotherhood’s website, ikhwanweb.com.
Obama appointed the hijab-wearing Mogahed to the President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. On a British television program, Islam Channel, Mogahed defended Shariah law, the barbaric Islamic legal code that treats women as second-class citizens.
Muslim women actually “associate gender justice or justice for women with Shariah compliance,” she argued. “It is ‘only a small fraction’ that associate Shariah with ‘oppression of women.'”
She added that Muslims should work to integrate Islamic law into public law.
In fact, in the interview Unruh is presumably referring to, Mogahed did not defend Sharia law; Mogahed said that she was “sure there are people out there” who believe that “the United States and Britain and other countries should be open to, the concept of, you know, integrating Sharia into laws in Muslim-majority societies,” and she did not discuss what “a lot of Americans … think” about Sharia law.
Unruh also claimed that Hussain (whom Unruh quotes Farah misidentifying as “Hassain”) “has raised suspicions” because he once “defended Brotherhood leaders like Sami al-Arian.” Unruh didn’t mention that Hussain later stated that his statements about al-Arian were ” ill-conceived or not well-formulated.”
Unruh also portrays Hussain as a “devout Muslim” who “has told Afghans the antidote to Islamic violence ‘is Islam itself,'” without mentioning Hussain’s long record in opposing terrorism.