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Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America (2009) is a book written by U.S. State Department-trained Arabic linguist Paul David Gaubatz and Washington-based investigative journalist and Hoover Institute fellow Paul Sperry.

With a forward by U.S. North Carolina Congresswoman Sue Myrick, it attracted the endorsement of three other U.S. Congressmen—Trent Franks (R-AZ), John Shadegg (R-AZ), and Paul Broun (R-GA)—as well as media attention beginning with its release in mid-October 2009.

Overview

The book is based on an six-month undercover penetration by Chris Gaubatz, posing as a convert to Islam, of the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). The book says that CAIR documents show that CAIR is a front group for the Muslim Brotherhood, which under the nonprofit guise of CAIR is supporting international jihad against the U.S.

Litigation

In November 2009 the book received further attention when federal judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ordered several source documents removed from Gaubatz's website, after CAIR brought a federal lawsuit against Gaubatz and his son (who had obtained the documents by posing for several months as an Islamic convert to be accepted as a CAIR intern) for allegedly stealing the documents.

Impact and reception

In the wake of the Fort Hood shooting the book received a newspaper editorial endorsement from national security and Pentagon journalist Bill Gertz, writing in the November 12 edition of the Washington Times: "Federal investigators chasing e-mail and other communication links between Fort Hood shooting suspect Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and radical Islamist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki should consult a new book that cites documents on the al Qaeda imam." Similarly, former Congressman Tom Tancredo (formerly R-CO), writing in the November 6 edition of the The Denver Post, noted that the book was already gaining attention as four Congressman have asked the House sergeant-at-arms to investigate allegations in the book of double agents having been placed inside Congress by CAIR, and opined that the book's:

"allegations will be dismissed as alarmist by many, but critics will have to confront the book's extensive documentation. Its authors ... have national security backgrounds and solid reputations. The most controversial part of the book is the relationship between CAIR and the international Muslim Brotherhood... Our nation's news media often turn to CAIR for a "moderate Muslim response" to events of the day. Yet this book shows that the mask of moderation covers its real mission....if the authors ... are correct, we ... may well be growing and training our own brand of domestic terrorists who know how to destroy our nation from within."

The New English Review reviewed the book on October 14, 2009, writing "It is an important assessment of the threat of the Muslim Brotherhood in America."

First publication

• Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that's Conspiring to Islamize America, P. David Gaubatz and Paul Sperry, WND Books, October 15, 2009, 448 pages, ISBN 1935071106, ISBN 978-1935071105, (HC).

References

1. Elliot, Justin, "Citing Work Of Right-Wing Intern Spy, GOP Accuses Muslim Group Of Infiltrating Hill With Intern 'Spies', TPMMuckraker, October 14, 2009, accessed November 15, 2009
2. Weigel, David, "Rep. Sue Myrick’s Foreword to ‘Muslim Mafia’", Washington Independent, October 16, 2009, accessed November 15, 2009
3. Greenwald, Glenn, "GOP House members call for investigation of Muslim political activity: This foul witch hunt may be the most despicable domestic political event of the year", Salon.com, October 15, 2009, accessed November 15, 2009
4. Clark, Stephen, "Muslim Activist Group Appears to Lack Clout to 'Plant' Interns on Capitol Hill," Fox News, October 16, 2009, November 16, 2009
5. Doyle, Michael, "Muslim Mafia Author Ordered to Remove Documents from Web", Kansas City Star, ‎November 9, 2009‎, accessed November 15, 2009
6. "Muslims Say Author Spied & Trespassed". Court House News. November 02, 2009
7. Levine, Mike, "FBI Ties to CAIR Remain Strained in Obama Administration," Fox News, November 11, 2009, accessed November 15, 2009
8. Laney, Mary, "What is Going On in America? Corporate Diversity is not National Security," Chicago Daily Observer, November 12, 2009, accessed November 15, 2009
9. Gertz, Bill, "Inside the Ring: Hasan connection," Washington Times, November 12, 2009, accessed November 15, 2009
10. Tancredo, Tom, "The threat of the "Muslim Mafia"," The Denver Post, November 6, 2009, accessed November 16, 2009
11. "Muslim Mafia: an important investigative book on the Muslim Brotherhood in America," New English Review, October 14, 2009, accessed November 5, 2009

External links

• Official Muslim Mafia site
• Paul David Gaubatz blog (temporarily unavailable)
• "Muslim Brotherhood 'Conspiracy' to Subvert America", Paul Sperry speaking about book
• Elliot, Justin, "Watch: GOP Reps Accuse Muslim Interns Of Spying", TPMMuckraker, October 15, 2009

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