President Barack Obama's adviser on Muslim affairs, Dalia Mogahed, has provoked controversy by appearing on a British television show hosted by a member of an extremist group to talk about Sharia Law.
Miss Mogahed, appointed to the President's Council on Faith-Based and Neighbourhood Partnerships, said the Western view of Sharia was "oversimplified" and the majority of women around the world associate it with "gender justice".
The White House adviser made the remarks on a London-based TV discussion programme hosted by Ibtihal Bsis, a member of the extremist Hizb ut Tahrir party.
The group believes in the non-violent destruction of Western democracy and the creation of an Islamic state under Sharia Law across the world.
Miss Mogahed appeared alongside Hizb ut Tahrir's national women's officer, Nazreen Nawaz.
During the 45-minute discussion, on the Islam Channel programme Muslimah Dilemma earlier this week, the two members of the group made repeated attacks on secular "man-made law" and the West's "lethal cocktail of liberty and capitalism".
They called for Sharia Law to be "the source of legislation" and said that women should not be "permitted to hold a position of leadership in government".
Miss Mogahed made no challenge to these demands and said that "promiscuity" and the "breakdown of traditional values" were what Muslims admired least about the West.
She said: "I think the reason so many women support Sharia is because they have a very different understanding of sharia than the common perception in Western media.
"The majority of women around the world associate gender justice, or justice for women, with sharia compliance.
So, let;'s count this up. In the last few months, Obama has appointed
1) a self-avowed Black Nationalist - Van Jones
2) John Holdren, who has called for forced abortions and sterilization.
3) Mark Lloyd, Chief Diversity Officer of the FCC, who has called for the enforced Liberalization of Talk Radio.
4) Cass Sunstein who, it was realed today, says that the only reason America has not become a Socialist nation is because white people in America are too racist.
5) Kevin Jennings, the "Safe-School Czar" who has praised the Founder of the North American Man/Boy Love Association.
6) Dalia Mogahed, supporter of Sharia law
And, this is a short list. But, I'd say we're getting the picture. Obama is ok with all these things. If he is ok with racism, "Black Nationalism", the stereotyping of white people as being too racist to
be decent, Pedophilia, and anti-free speech legislation, then it seems to me we have a lunatic as a President.
Barack Obama may be a very, very dangerous man. We have cause for real concern. I don't know what to say beyond that. I am astonished at what we are witnessing.