Posted on 12/15/2021 11:12:13 PM PST by blueplum
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio chapter of the nation’s largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization has fired its leader for ethical and professional breaches that it says include a yearslong secret association with an anti-Muslim group...
...The year-long probe found “conclusive evidence that Iqbal had spent years recording CAIR network meetings and passing information regarding CAIR’s national advocacy work to a known anti-Muslim hate group,” a release said. During a Wednesday briefing, spokesperson Whitney Siddiqi identified the nonprofit as the Investigative Project on Terrorism, led by Steven Emerson, which bills itself as a research organization....
...In an emailed statement, IPT said CAIR did not represent American Muslims and called the organization antisemitic.
“While the Investigative Project on Terrorism has never and will never monitor the wider American Muslim community, it will not hesitate to uncover and publicly expose radical Islamist activity on American soil by groups like CAIR, which threaten our national security.”...
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
During a Wednesday briefing, spokesperson Whitney Siddiqi identified the nonprofit as the Investigative Project on Terrorism, led by Steven Emerson, which bills itself as a research organization...In an emailed statement, IPT said CAIR did not represent American Muslims and called the organization antisemitic.
The truth hurts, esp. When exposed to the public.
There is no such thing. Why start an article with a lie in the first sentence. I'd say, "Only AP", but most so-called news outlets would do that same.
Being anti terrorism is anti Muslim. Good to know.
Steve Emerson does the work our journalists once did, and he has been doing it for decades. CAIR is a Muslim Brotherhood operation and anti-American to its core. It thrives because it has long had the support of the Clintons and the other subterranean anti-Semites in the Democrat Party.
Lucky they didn’t behead him
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Muslim org fires leader for working with anti-Muslim group
AP ^ | 14 December 2021 | JULIE CARR SMYTH
Posted on 12/16/2021, 2:12:13 AM by blueplum
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