When a left-wing, Obama adoring publication hails an action by this President of the United States it is always prudent to research the facts.

This week the LA Times, celebrates Obama's appointment of Dalia Mogahed to his Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Mogahed is a self described expert on studying the way Muslim's think.The left-wing media has dubbed her a Muslim moderate.

The American Daily Review questions these descriptions of Mogahed.It turns out that Mogahed is associated with a group that advocates engaging the very troublesome and radical Muslim Brotherhood.

And in addition, she was involved in a polling project that deliberately sought to sanitize the image of Muslims by distorting the facts of her survey. Perhaps you remember a Gallup survey that supposedly showed that Muslims supposedly have the same attitudes as the rest of America? This survey, conducted by Mogahed, declared that only 7% of Muslims are radical (only 7%!) while the same survey concluded that 36% of Muslims approved the attack on the World Trade Center.

Mogahed and a notorious colleague were exposed by Robert Satloff writing for the Weekly Standard.The respected Mr. Satloff takes a detailed look at the faulty conclusions Mogahed presented to the world, conclusions that are not support by the data she presents.

Satloff's article is informative reading.When it was published in 2008 it caused quite a stir. In other words, the Obama White House knew about this controversy before they appointed Mogahed to her new post.One wonders why they would chose a Muslim with a checkered record rather than someone without controversy. But, then again, one wonders why President Obama announced his support of Muslim Turkey entering the Euroipean Union even though our NATO allies oppose this proposition.

Jihad Watch offers more analysis of Mogahed.