IN THE IMAGINATION of Hamza Yusuf Hanson–the American Islamist radical who reinvented himself after September 11, 2001 as a peace-loving spiritual Sufi and alleged advisor to President George W. Bush–no falsehood is too absurd to paraded about as truth.

Unfortunately, Hamza Yusuf, who in the 1990s proclaimed “jihad”–meaning violent aggression, not spiritual cultivation in the manner Sufis use the term–as “the only way” for American Muslims, continues to get a hearing from U.S. and British officials who ignore his past (such as his statement on September 9, 2001 that America “is facing a terrible, terrible fate . . . this country stands condemned”).