US senator Tom Coburn from Oklahoma has joined with a small group of Congressional reps. in their campaign against CAIR that has been referred to as the ‘Muslim spies’ debacle.

The effort is inspired by the book Muslim Mafia by David Gaubatz, which asserts among other things that CAIR attempted to place ‘Manchurian interns‘ representing some mythical Muslim political hive-mind close to policy makers in the US Capitol.

CAIR, of course, is actually an American advocacy organization comprised of American citizens who have every right to attempt to influence policy makers in pursuit of the group’s mission, which is to aggressively protect the civil rights of Muslim American citizens and non-citizen residents in the United States.

Coburn is a social conservative who is often defined as an “ultra-conservative” Republican. He is most remembered for asserting during his campaign for the Senate that a swath of the state of Oklahoma had – under the noses of the regular folk of that state – turned into a “lesbian Sodom and Gomorrah” for teens, where schoolgirls could only be allowed to go to the bathroom one at a time for fear of them falling upon each other.

For those of you unfamiliar with this part of the US, it is a very conservative place – so conservative in fact that residents elected him over the Democratic candidate despite the lunatic charge he made against their children.