Back in December, I posted how CAIR would be forced to open its books and reveal its sources of funding after a defamation suit it filed against their former employee Lori Saroya completely backfired.
In a development that should surprise absolutely no-one, CAIR has chosen to settle with Saroya instead of revealing their funding sources.
A Washington-based Muslim nonprofit, which is one of the largest operating across the US, agreed this week to settle a case brought by a former board member and employee rather than open its books to reveal sources of foreign funding, The Post has learned.
Evidence in past court proceedings has shown links between The Council on American-Islamic Relations Foundation Inc. and both Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
CAIR Inc. settled with Lori Saroya Thursday, months after US Magistrate Judge David Schultz ruled any assets owned by the group are all within the “scope of permissible discovery” as part of the former Minnesota chapter leader’s lawsuit against the controversial Muslim rights group.
But not to fear. Pressure is mounting on there to be a federal investigation into them:
Lawmakers are demanding a federal investigation into the nonprofit, which took in more than $5.3 million in contributions and grants in 2022, the last year for which public filings are available.
“CAIR’s leadership has a long history of spewing vile antisemitism and anti-Zionist rhetoric, including openly praising the Hamas terrorists that brutally attacked Israel, murdering, raping, and kidnapping more than 1,200 people on October. 7 [2023],” said Josh Gottheimer, a Democratic Congressman from New Jersey.
Referring to court proceedings which showed the links, he added: “The allegations that CAIR receives funding from Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, if true, are deeply concerning and require an immediate investigation.”
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“The history is very clear,” said Lorenzo Vidino, director of the Program on Extremism at GWU.
“CAIR was created by this core group of Hamas leaders in the US in the early 1990s. There are FBI wiretaps of a workshop given by the group’s leaders on how to deal with the media and create a veneer of respectability and use the language of civil rights.”
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“CAIR is part of a family of organizations, including SJP [Students for Justice in Palestine] that are deeply connected and share the same ideology,” said Lorenzo Vidino, the director of the Program on Extremism at the George Washington University.
“There’s been plenty of Congressional scrutiny of SJP, and now we definitely need a Congressional investigation, especially when you have the director of CAIR saying that Oct. 7 was a good thing.”
Meanwhile, Zahra Billoo, Executive Director of the CAIR, San Francisco Bay Area (CAIR-SFBA) office, has been regularly shilling for CAIR’s funders Hamas:
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