The latest claim circulating about Imam Feisal Rauf, started at Pajamas Media by Madeline Brooks, is that he attended a “Hizb-ut Tahrir Conference” in 2007, with a “feeling of celebration.”

It’s just the latest in a long string of false allegations, and Jeffrey Imm of R.E.A.L. completely destroys it here: NYC Anti-Mosque Protester Seeks to Tie Imam to Hizb ut-Tahrir.

But even more interesting is what Imm reveals about the author of this deceptive story, Madeline Brooks.

A year ago, R.E.A.L. held a public event in New York City’s Union Square Plaza, where we challenged racism and racist views, including those of self-proclaimed “racialist” Lawrence Auster in New York City, as R.E.A.L. has challenged repeatedly in writing.  One of Lawrence Auster’s preoccupations is regarding “Black and other nonwhite violence against whites,” where he has an entire category of articles on topics such as “Black savagery, white acceptance,” and where Lawrence Auster seeks to educate us that “Whites’ mistake is that they think blacks are rational, and so they admit them as equal participants in discussion” (also see article). Lawrence Auster who calls himself a “racialist,” condemns the 1964 Civil Rights Act, stating that “in passing the Act, white America in effect admitted that it was responsible and guilty for black inferiority.”

But when we publicly challenged the racial views of Mr. Auster last summer, we failed to point out that, in April 2009, a Manhattan “anti-jihad” group had invited “racialist” Lawrence Auster to speak, despite our private but clear warnings and protestations of Auster’s “racialist” views.

That event was led by NYC anti-mosque protest activist Madeline Brooks, the author of this latest article on Imam Rauf, who invited “racialist” Lawrence Auster to speak as a “nativist,” as well as Muslim Supna Zaida, in determining “who belongs in our counter-jihad movement”.   In Madeline Brooks’ invitation for this event for “racialist” Auster to speak on Islam, she mentions that he had spoken on Islam at the Preserving Western Civilization conference, which was described by the Anti-Defamation League as “Racists Gather in Maryland to ‘Preserve’ Western Civilization.” In Lawrence Auster’s views on Islam at that conference he called for deporting Muslims from America, and closing any mosque in America that promoted Sharia of any kind. On Lawrence Auster’s website, he thanks “Madeline Brooks, who organized and moderated the event, deserve credit for allowing my non-mainstream views to be heard.”

We continue to see an unfortunate pattern of association with intolerant extremists here.

In September 2009, Madeline Brooks sought to invite Pastor James David Manning to a 9/11 remembrance and to other events that she was leading, who views President Obama “as born trash,” because “His African in heat father went a-whxring after a trashy white woman.”

Anti-mosque protester Madeline Brooks has also written articles in support of the efforts of Brooklyn Tea Party anti-mosque protests, led by John Press, who views himself as a “culturist” in support of “European-America” cultures only.  “European-American cultural” activism is a widely used code word for white racist groups throughout America that we have challenged, and that have challenged us.

On June 25, 2010, Madeline Brooks led a NYC Islamic Center protest in coordination with the Christian Action Network (CAN).   On the website promoting this event, one commenter states “There should not be ANY mosque in USA!”   CAN’s virulent anti-homosexual statements and campaigns had become so widely known and rejected, that even the leaders of the Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) group disassociated with CAN over their bigoted views and statements.

There is a pattern of intolerance associating with intolerance, just not the one that Pajamas Media is reporting today.

Absolutely. And it didn’t start here; the schism between myself and the “anti-jihad” bloggers was all about their unfortunate associations with all kinds of nasty creeps. Now these people, who advocated strongly for “joining forces” with European far right and neo-fascist groups, are leading the populist mob opposing the Cordoba House project.