Obama seeks Muslims for White House posts

"'It was mostly under the radar,' Williams said. 'We thought it would put (the president) in a precarious position. We didn't know how closely he wanted to appear to be working with the Muslim American community.'

Ellison is serious about his faith. He made the pilgrimage to Mecca with the sponsorship of the Muslim American Society, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood.

In 1991, Mohamed Akram wrote a memo for the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood that explained its work in America as 'a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions.'"