CAIR’s Honest Ibe Hooper in happier days
We’ve been warning about CAIR for years, while CAIR has used its trademark intimidation and smear tactics to marginalize and silence its critics. But now at last the truth is coming out. “Beware Of CAIR,” from Investor’s Business Daily, January 30 (thanks to Ruth King):
Homeland Security: You’d think the Council on American-Islamic Relations would be savoring the results of an election that favors its agenda. Instead, it’s having to do major damage control.
Over the past several months, the Washington-based pressure group has suffered a series of punishing blows to its reputation as a self-proclaimed “moderate” voice for Muslim-Americans. In the latest setback, a “Dear Colleague” letter sent out to every House member warns lawmakers and their staffs to “think twice” about meeting with CAIR officials.
“The FBI has cut ties with them,” the letter says. “There are indications” CAIR has links to Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group.
The letter, signed by five Republicans, including the head of the Congressional Anti-Terrorism Caucus, is attached to an article by a homeland-security news service. It reports that the FBI has been canceling outreach events across the country with CAIR, following a recent directive from headquarters to cut ties with the group.
It’s a major policy shift at the FBI, which has appeased the notoriously litigious CAIR since 9/11. The group aggressively attacks critics with threats of boycotts and discrimination lawsuits.
The marginalization of CAIR, which has enjoyed astonishing access to official Washington, comes after the successful prosecution of leaders of a U.S. Muslim charity that funneled millions to Hamas terrorists. CAIR and its co-founder Omar Ahmed were named unindicted co-conspirators in that Holy Land Foundation case.
CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad, moreover, was caught on tape participating in a meeting with Hamas leaders to disguise payments as charity. During the trial, the FBI described CAIR as a front group for Islamic extremists….
Read it all. And go over to Pamela’s site, where she has the actual letter from the five Congressmen.