Debbie Schlussel of World Net Daily says Bush also supported them.:
Terrorists' favorite congressmen
Daniel Pipes and Steven Emerson also reported in the WSJ, in August, 2001:
Meanwhile, the person in charge of ICP and WISE was also a tenured professor at the University of South Florida named Sami Al Arian. Despite what has been known for years about the ICP and WISE, he remains in good standing at his university and has even attended four White House events in the past four years.
Pipes full article:
Rolling Back the Forces of Terror
I think it’s way past time to be very, very, watchful of politicians who continue to accept support from Muslim groups in this country – including our President, whom, I fear, may allow his admiration of religion, however laudable, to cloud his judgement.