By Brigitte Gabriel
Last week, media reports surfaced that the FBI quietly decided last summer to sever its ties to CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations. One week prior, Ingrid Mattson, president of ISNA, the Islamic Society of North America, delivered a prayer at the National Prayer Service, one of the events associated with the inauguration of President Obama. In other words, while it appears the FBI has finally learned a valuable lesson, it just as clearly appears that President Obama hasn’t.
For years the FBI has conferred legitimacy on CAIR, meeting with its leaders and asking for its advice on relations with the Muslim community. The FBI has even utilized CAIR to give sensitivity training to its agents on topics such as Islam and understanding Muslims.
The FBI maintained its relationship with CAIR in spite of the fact that it had ample evidence that CAIR had ties to terrorist organizations such as Hamas.
The most notable is the evidence that led the Justice Department to list CAIR as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial, which culminated in 108 guilty verdicts. During the second Holy Land Foundation trial, FBI agent Lara Burns testified that CAIR is a front organization for the spread of the militant Islamist ideology. With CAIR officials unwilling to address FBI questions raised by the Holy Land Foundation investigation, the FBI finally said enough. Read more ...
Last week, media reports surfaced that the FBI quietly decided last summer to sever its ties to CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations. One week prior, Ingrid Mattson, president of ISNA, the Islamic Society of North America, delivered a prayer at the National Prayer Service, one of the events associated with the inauguration of President Obama. In other words, while it appears the FBI has finally learned a valuable lesson, it just as clearly appears that President Obama hasn’t.
For years the FBI has conferred legitimacy on CAIR, meeting with its leaders and asking for its advice on relations with the Muslim community. The FBI has even utilized CAIR to give sensitivity training to its agents on topics such as Islam and understanding Muslims.
The FBI maintained its relationship with CAIR in spite of the fact that it had ample evidence that CAIR had ties to terrorist organizations such as Hamas.
The most notable is the evidence that led the Justice Department to list CAIR as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial, which culminated in 108 guilty verdicts. During the second Holy Land Foundation trial, FBI agent Lara Burns testified that CAIR is a front organization for the spread of the militant Islamist ideology. With CAIR officials unwilling to address FBI questions raised by the Holy Land Foundation investigation, the FBI finally said enough. Read more ...
Source: FrontPage Magazine
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