And to prevent the future generation of u. S. Leaders from being duped into the idea that muslims are actually a peaceful group when in fact he was arguing they are kind of a trojan horse. Likewise on the right here youll see Frank Gaffney from the center for security policy, one of the people who later became instrumental in the socalled antisharia movement and the various attempts to create laws that would prevent the use of sharia law in the United States. And he famously accused the white house of being infiltrated by extremists, among them Grover Norquist who had a very weak ties to a hedge fund that funds many of the largest Muslim American organizations in the country. And so why didnt main stream muslim organizations get in the media . I argue in my book it is because of the emotional message. These were visceral, fearful, angry, condemnations of muslims and Muslim Americans in particular that really alerted a public that had very little idea again what islam was, who muslims w