Stephen Coughlin
Stephen Coughlin is a lawyer and former Joint Chiefs of Staff intelligence analyst who was in effect fired by the Pentagon at the request of Hesham Islam who has since been suspected of being an Islamic terrorist sympathizer.[1] Coughlin's warnings that the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) is affiliated with the terrorist group Muslim Brotherhood led Hesham Islam to call him "a Christian zealot with a pen." Subsequently, the Joint Chiefs of Staff did not renew Coughlin's contract as an intelligence analyst.[2]
The negative U.S. security implications of his termination are discussed in the books The Failure Factory: How Unelected Bureaucrats, Liberal Democrats, and Big Government Republicans Are Undermining America's Security and Leading Us to War (Crown Forum, 2008) by Bill Gertz, They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It (Macmillan, 2008) by Brigitte Gabriel, Stealth Jihad: How Radical Islam is Subverting America Without Guns or Bombs (Regnery Publishing, 2008) by Robert Spencer, Shadow World: Resurgent Russia, the Global New Left, and Radical Islam (Regnery Publishing, 2008) by Robert Chandler, Surrender: Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedomâ (Random House, 2009) by Bruce Bawer, and Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize Americaâ (WND, 2009) by P. David Gaubatz and Paul Sperry.