Today’s New York Post carried a story about GOP activist Suhail Khan’s connections with known terrorists and organizations with close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. Khan– along with Grover Norquist— is a board member of the American Conservative Union, the organization that hosts the yearly Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). The ACU, plagued by allegations of corruption and rocked by the Heritage Foundation and other conservative organizations pulling out of CPAC, should finally have to come up with some answers about Khan’s radical ties.

Suhail Khan’s associations with radicals, terrorists, and groups linked in a federal court to both the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas can’t be easily wiped-away. Among the troubling clips showing Khan sharing the stage with terrorists and Islamists, a video obtained by the Post shows Khan in 1999 addressing the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorist financing trial:

“The early Muslims loved death, dying for the sake of almighty Allah, more than the oppressors loved life,” said an impassioned Khan, who wiped away tears throughout his speech. “This must be the case when we are fighting.”

He added: “What are our oppressors going to do with a people like us? We are prepared to give our lives for the cause of Islam.”

It’s alarming that Khan used the “loving death more than life” figure of speech; it’s a pretty standard exhortation of the Mujaheddin and Islamists. Perhaps the best-known examples of the phrase: a slide by the Fort Hood jihadist, Maj. Nidal Hasan; the al Qaeda tape claiming responsibility for the 2004 Madrid bombings; and the speeches of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah; and the words of Osama Bin Laden.

Also in the speech (posted in full here), Khan notes proudly his own father’s role in founding ISNA and his time with the Muslim Student Association, the first Muslim Brotherhood front created in the United States. This story is told in detail in Shariah: The Threat to America. As Paul Sperry notes in The Post:

“Khan’s father also helped found the Muslim Community Association in Santa Clara, Calif. This Khan family mosque is listed in the Muslim Brotherhood’s own documents as one of “our organizations.” In the 1990s, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, it hosted Ayman al-Zawahiri — now al Qaeda’s No. 2 — as he toured the US raising money.

For years, Frank Gaffney, Michelle Malkin and others have written in detail about the troubling Islamist and Muslim Brotherhood associations of both Norquist and Khan, only to be attacked ad hominem as bigots. Tellingly, Khan and Norquist sought refuge not with the conservative movement– but at Politico, Salon, and with Andrew Sullivan and others; over the course of years, the only answer to these accusations has been to shout, “Islamophobe!”

Conservatives– and, indeed, paying attendees at CPAC– should be reminded of the attacks leveled by these same media outlets against the Tea Party, Andrew Breitbart and others, and sense that something’s fishy here.

Read the whole thing at the New York Post…