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The New Media Journal A high-level Pro-Islamist military aide who pushed for the non-renewal of the Pentagon's most learned scholar on Sharia Law and radical Islam, Stephen Coughlin, will resign his position advising Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England. Conversely, Maj. Stephen Coughlin, the military reservist contractor that Islam sought to remove, is rumored to be staying on at the Pentagon with a promotion and a raise in pay grade. Reports indicate that a former US ambassador to Turkey is trying to block Coughlin's new contract. Hesham Islam, an Egyption by birth, came under a cloud of suspicion after calling Coughlin a "Christian zealot with a pen" after refusing to "soften his views" toward Islamist extremism. Further red-flags were raised over the validity of his resume -- which was removed from the Defense Department website shortly after news of the Coughlin affair came to light -- and relationships he maintained with radical Muslims and radical Islamist groups tied to terrorism. Islam is expected to leave the government next month, officials say. A recent in-depth examination of Islam by terrorism expert Steven Emerson indicated that Islam had scheduled at least two meetings in the Pentagon with Syrian-tied Islamist extremists including members of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood. These high-level meetings are in direct violation of US Defense and State Department policy.
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