I don't know why this detail from a report by Laura Rozen, about a trip of Muslim leaders to the sites of former concentration camps organized by current and former government officials tasked with Muslim outreach, hasn't gotten more attention:
Organizers of the trip say they were dismayed that the Anti-Defamation League's Abe Foxman lobbied U.S. officials against participating. They also say the Investigative Project’s Steve Emerson, author of "American Jihad," lobbied against the trip, arguing that one of the imams planning to participate had made Holocaust denial statements a decade ago.
Emerson was unavailable for comment and Foxman did not respond to repeated queries from POLITICO.
Emerson claimed that one of the Imams who was invited once developed a case of Holocaust denial, which you'd think a trip to Auschwitz would clear up fairly quickly. As for Foxman, how exactly does lobbying against Muslim leaders visiting the sites of former concentration camps further the Anti-Defamation League's stated goal of fighting "anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry in the U.S. and abroad?" Or does the Muslim-free zone in downtown Manhattan apply to sites associated with the Holocaust as well?
Matt Duss writes that one of the former Bush aides who helped organize that trip, Suhail Khan, is being accused by prominent right-wing birther Frank Gaffney of being a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, based on an anonymous source he claims is with the FBI. Of course, since, as Duss points out, Gaffney was last seen proclaiming that Hezbollah was conducting training on the U.S. Mexico border, I'd take that claim with a grain of salt.
