The Department of Homeland Security paid an apocalyptic ideologue to address law enforcement.

Evidence

Shoebat similarly tells his audiences that CAIR and the Islamic Society of North America are “the terrorist arms of the lawmaker: Sharia, Koran and Hadith.” Shoebat is even more extreme than his fellow ex-Muslims. His newfound Christian beliefs hold that during the “end times” of biblical prophecy, Muslims will fight alongside Satan on Earth. Despite these outlandish claims (or perhaps because of them), he is enthusiastically promoted by his colleagues in the Islamophobia network. Gaffney gushed, “In the twenty-five years I have been in Washington I have never heard anything so extraordinary and the truth told so eloquently by someone like this,” [emphasis added]. In 2011, he was paid $5,000 by the Department of Homeland Security to speak at a South Dakota law enforcement conference. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 704

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 704
• XREF: connects to: The Department of Homeland Security paid five thousand dollars for extremist anti-Islam training — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 556

Broader Connections

• The Department of Homeland Security paid five thousand dollars for extremist anti-Islam training #corroborates (0.95) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 556