Radical Islamist front group MPAC is whining to the White House that they’re being unfairly targeted by evil racist neocons like Frank Gaffney: Muslim council takes complaints to Bush.

The Muslim Public Affairs Council is organizing a campaign to complain to the White House about David A. Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union and Frank J. Gaffney, president of the Center for Security Policy, who have criticized access to President Bush by groups they regard as radical Islamists

The Muslim council posted this call for action on its Internet site, together with praise for Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, who has worked with Islamic groups in behalf of the Republican Party.

Mr. Norquist has accused Mr. Gaffney of “racism” and religious bigotry, but he said he has had nothing to do with the criticism of Mr. Keene and Mr. Gaffney by the Muslim council, which he described as a “Democrat” group with which he has little contact.

The National Journal reported that Mr. Norquist once arranged a meeting between the Muslim Public Affairs Council, other Muslim groups and George W. Bush, when he was a candidate for president. Mr. Norquist said he didn’t do that.

Several national security experts have expressed concern about the support they say the Muslim council extended to Hamas and other organizations that the Bush administration has designated as terrorist groups. Salam Al-Marayati, the executive director of the Muslim council, said his organization has condemned Hamas and other organizations that support Palestinian suicide bombers.

This is complete and utter hogwash. From Steven Emerson’s book American Jihad:

On December 22, 2000, MPAC’s Mahdi Bray organized a rally in Lafayette Park outside the White House to celebrate a “Worldwide Day for Jerusalem.” In Arabic, the crowd responsively chanted with the emcee, “Khaybar, Khaybar oh Jews, the Army of Muhammad is coming for you!” Posters calling for “Death to Israel” and equating the Star of David with the Nazi swastika were openly displayed and anti-Semitic literature calling for the destruction of the Jews and Israel was distributed. Members of the crowd burned the Israeli flag while marching from the White House to the State Department.

Bray spoke at this rally, along with Imam Mohammed al-Asi, former director of the Islamic Education Center in Potomac, Maryland, who exhorted the crowd to violence in the name of Islam. Al-Asi said, “Now, all our khatibs (speakers), our imams, our public speakers, should be concentrating on militarizing the Muslim public. This is not a time to make a speaking issue out of this … Muslims have to familiarize themselves with every means possible … Rhetoric is not going to liberate Al Quds and Al Aqsa. Only carrying arms will do this task. And it’s not going to be someone else who is going to carry arms for you and for me. It is you and me who are going to have to carry these arms.”